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IN AN essay in his popular magazine, Household Words, Charles Dickens issued a challenge to economists to humanise their discipline. “Political economy is a mere skeleton unless it has a little human covering and filling out,” he wrote in the inaugural issue in 1854. “A little human bloom upon it, and a little human warmth in it.”
This is a challenge to which economics and economists have mostly failed to rise. In her new book Sylvia Nasar, a former economics correspondent at the New York Times and now at Columbia University, has at least gone part of the way to satisfying Dickens’s wishes. “Grand Pursuit” is a history of economics which is full of flesh, bloom and warmth. The author demonstrates that there is far more to economics than Thomas Carlyle’s “dismal science”. And she does so with all the style and panache that you would expect from the author of the 1998 bestseller, “A Beautiful Mind”, about John Forbes Nash, the tortured genius behind game theory.

A. 어휘
trial and error 試行錯誤(시행착오). rescue 구조하다.
squalor 비참함, 불결함, 卑劣(비열). deprivation 窮乏(궁핍), 빈곤, 탈취, 剝奪(박탈).
issue 발표하다, 발행하다. discipline 학문. skeleton 해골.
covering 덮개. filling out 채우는 것, 살을 붙임.
inaugural 취임의, 開始(개시)의. inaugural issue 創刊號(창간호).
correspondent 특파원. Pursuit 追求(추구). bloom 꽃, 滿開(만개).
dismal science 陰鬱(음울)한 학문. panache 당당한 태도, 깃털 장식, 虛勢(허세).
tortured 고통당하는, 고문 받는.