About this title: A memoir by the grandson of twice-exiled Harvard economist Alexander Gerschenkron traces the venerated scholar's flight to Cambridge from Russia and highlights his numerous contributions to economic theory, notably, the "Gerschenkron effect," which notes that changing the base year for an index will determine the growth rate of the index. A New ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 05/2002
ISBN-13:9780375400278ISBN:0375400273
Description: Good in good dust jacket. Good, In good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375400278ISBN:0375400273
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. No Writing. No Highlighting. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375400278ISBN:0375400273
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Dust Jacket has some edgewear present. -, Hard Cover, Very Good / Very Good. read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First edition. Illustrated.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375400278ISBN:0375400273
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 368 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Price sticker, just a bit of light wear, inside sharp. read more
Edition: 1st Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon Books, Inc., New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2002
ISBN-13:9780375400278ISBN:0375400273
Description: Good in Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Book shows light to moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ D.J. not price clipped; slightly scuffed, moderate edge wear read more
By Pattieb,
Skopje, Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of
"Nicholas Dawidoff spends 341 pages tracing the life of his grandfather, Alex Gerschenkron, from revolutionary Russia through pre-Nazi Vienna, and finally to Harvard via Berkeley.
I picked this up at our local American Corner (run by the Embassy) and wasn't quite sure if it would hold my interest. Gerschendron was an economics prof at Harvard in the late 50's through late 60's - possible a boring subject. But he turned out to be fascinating. He could have easily chaired three different departments at Harvard, learned close to 20 languages, had read every classic book in its original language, quoted verbatim from hundreds of sources, and taught and inspired a number of the most influential economists of the later 20th century.
My understanding of Russian and European economics, politics and histories is broader, my to-read list is longer, and I'm inspired to work on refreshing one or two of the languages I should speak better than I do. (If he could learn Swedish in one summer....)
One interesting fact - he spent a summer working in the shipyards of Richmond, north of Berkeley, to produce the "Liberty ships" during WWII, and became a fervent American patriot.
It never did get boring, and it ended exactly when it should have. One more chapter would have been too much."
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