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Strathern brings the reader along in a lively, breezy and elegant manner, through Adam Smith and Hume; the French Optimists and British Pessimists: Saint-Simon and Owen; Marx and Hegel; Pareto; Veblen; Schumpeter, Keynes, John Nash and finally fullcircle back to von Neumann. Strathern uncovers... read more
First Sentence
That telling cultural symbol, the zero, first arrived in Europe from the Levant around 1200.
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- Paul Strathern (Author)
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