1. The characteristics of China's traditional economy / Man-houng Lin -- 2. The late Qing dynasty to the early Republic of China : a period of great institutional transformation / Kenneth S. Chan -- 3. The centrally planned command economy (1949-84) / Dwight H. Perkins -- 4. China's economic...

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar’s long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists’ stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar’s goal is to show how economists work, but...

In this essay I review Sylvia Nasar’s long awaited new history of economics, Grand Pursuit. I describe how the book is an economic history of the period from 1850-1950, with distinguished economists’ stories inserted in appropriate places. Nasar’s goal is to show how economists work, but...