Dr. Strangelove's Game: A Brief History of Economic Genius Tapa blanda - 2002

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Praise for Dr. Strangelove's Game:

“[It] presents important economic ideas in an entertaining and eminently readable manner. Strathern brings the passion of a professor with a novelist’s eye for the interesting story. If we professors were all this interesting, our lectures would be better attended; the economy might even be better for it…. [What] a pleasure to come across a book that makes the history of economic thought a good read.” -- The Globe and Mail

“Buy this book and laugh your way to an education. It is a tour de force, remarkable for taking economics -- the dismal science -- and making it amusing. Strathern has a deft touch for animating the biographies not only of the classic economists, but also those thinkers who developed game theory and other advances in the sciences of prediction. ‘Even these metallic problems have their melodramatic side,’ Oscar Wilde said of economics. Strathern knows where to find it.” -- Thomas A. Bass, author of The Eudaemonic Pie

"An entertaining look at the minds that spawned modern-day economics.... Rarely has so much dry theory been repackaged in such an engaging way. If my university lecturers had spent a little more time talking about Marx and the maid, or Keynes and his Russian ballerina, I might not have nodded off quite so often during discussion of these giants' ground-breaking work." -- Globe and Mail's ROB Magazine

Praise for Mendeleyev’s Dream:

“A wonderfully entertaining and stimulating journey from alchemy to chemistry in search of the elements of our universe. It is a book of great clarity and depth.” — Jim Crace