Summary: Economist Sylvia Nasar, whose book "A Beautiful Mind" became a movie hit, has written a new book', "Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius". The book is an account of the most influential economists since the era of Charles Dickens in mid-Victorian England, including Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman and others, through to present-day India and Amartya Sen.
