Bruce Berkowitz Playfair: The True Story of the British Secret Agent Who Changed How We See the World 9781942695042

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Автор: Bruce Berkowitz
Название: Playfair: The True Story of the British Secret Agent Who Changed How We See the World
ISBN: 9781942695042
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Всеобщая и мировая история

ISBN-10: 1942695047
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 340
Вес: 0.82 кг.
Дата издания: 28.02.2018
Серия: Biography
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 25 black & white illustrations
Размер: 165 x 235 x 40
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Memoirs,General & world history,British & Irish history,Social research & statistics,Popular mathematics, HISTORY / World
Подзаголовок: The true story of the british secret agent who changed how we see the world
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: William Playfair is known primarily as the inventor of statistical graphics - bar charts, pie charts, and graphs. Yet this ingenious Scot also developed concepts in international trade and investment that are used to this day, including ideas on venture capitalism and the benefits of free trade borrowed by the likes of Jeremy Bentham and David Ricardo. Playfair published the first general theory explaining the rise and decline of nations, and introduced ideas such as price indexes and methods of measuring national power. In addition to all this, he still had time to observe - and most likely participated in - the storming of the Bastille, and to trigger the first political scandal in the newly formed United States - a land speculation scheme in Ohio that involved top American leaders.This flawed but brilliant man led yet another life, however - as a British secret agent. He carried out espionage and subversion against France as the First Republic turned radical. Many of his contributions to economics and statistics emerged from what was probably the first full-scale war against a nation’s currency. Bruce Berkowitz has given us the first major biography of the larger-than-life William Playfair - rogue, genius, and patriot - and his remarkable inventions and adventures.Distributed for George Mason University Press

Playfair: The True Story of the British Secret Agent Who Changed How We See the World, Bruce Berkowitz