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It turns out that economists—or at least the handful of geniuses that Ms Nasar discusses—are a peculiarly interesting bunch. John Maynard Keynes was an exotic mixture of Bloomsbury intellectual and civil-servant mandarin with a touch of Puck thrown in. Joseph Schumpeter was an obsessive scholar who spent his spare moments riding thoroughbreds, collecting mistresses and, on the odd occasion, taking part in orgies. Irving Fisher, the Yale economist who declared, in October 1929, that stocks had reached “what looks like a permanently high plateau”, was a health nut and prohibitionist. Joan Robinson, whom Schumpeter dubbed “one of our best men”, wore Mao suits and pronounced that North Korea was bound to outperform the South.
Ms Nasar’s story is made all the more appealing by the fact that she does almost nothing to conceal her prejudices. She has little time for Karl Marx, a man who was so convinced of his rightness, and so buried in his books in the British Library, that he failed to observe the world around him. He did not bother to visit a single British factory. He refused to exchange a word with the intellectual titans of the time, including Charles Darwin and George Eliot, both of whom lived just a few miles from his front door. He ignored overwhelming statistical evidence that the working class’s share of the nation’s wealth was increasing. By contrast, Alfred Marshall was everything that Marx was not: the embodiment of all that was best in Victorian high- mindedness. Marshall was alive to what was going on around him. He frequently visited factories and firms, and travelled around the world’s new “empire of energy”, the United States. He threw his weight behind popular education and incremental reform.

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turns out 판명되다. handful 소량, 소수. peculiarly 특별히.
bunch 무리, 떼, 一團(일단), 다발. exotic 색다른, 異國的(이국적)인.
Bloomsbury intellectual 20세기 전반에 걸쳐 런던의 Bloomsbury에 모여 토론을 전개하였던 지식인 그룹. 20세기 지적풍토에 거대한 영향을 끼침.
civil-servant 공무원. mandarin 관료. Puck 장난꾸러기 꼬마요정.
obsessive 强迫觀念(강박관념)의, 비정상일 정도의.
thoroughbreds 純種(순종)의 말. mistresses 연인, 情婦(정부), 여주인, 주부.
on the odd occasion 특이한 경우에는. orgies 진탕마시고 떠들기, 방탕.
stocks 증권. permanently 영원히. plateau 高原(고원), 학습고원.
nut 열광적 애호가, 괴짜. prohibitionist 禁酒主義者(금주주의자).
dub 라고 칭하다, 라고 별명으로 부르다.
be bound to +Verb 반드시 ..하다. outperform 성능이 더 우수하다.
appealing 매력적인. conceal 숨기다, 비밀로 하다. prejudice 편견.
convinced 확신하다. bother 성가시게하다, 귀찮게 하다.
titans 거인. overwhelming 압도적인. embodiment 化身(화신), 權化(권화).
high- mindedness 고상함, 高潔(고결)함. incremental 점진적인.