I am thinking of maybe buying one of these:
- Roger E. Backhouse (2017). Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson: Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948
- Robert Leonard (2012). Von Neumann, Morgenstern and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900-1960
- Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khan (2017). The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information: The History of Information in Modern Economics
- Angela Penrose (2017). No Ordinary Woman: The Life of Edith Penrose
- Yanis Varoufakis (2017). Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment. Update: Josh Mason has a review
I already have many books on which I am behind, for instance, Anwar Shaikh's Capitalism. I suspect the Penrose biography will strike me like Adelman's biography. I've read some of the economics the subject produced, but did not know about the Nazi-fighting.
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I too am working my way through Shaikh's magnus opum. Of the other titles listed, Mirowski would appeal to me the most. This preference reflects my own theoretical interests and is not meant to take away from the contributions these other books make to their subjects.
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