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...refreshingly accessible economics historian whose 1953 book, The Worldly Philosophers, remains the country's second best-selling economics textbook (after Paul Samuelson's Economics); in New York City. In some 20 books, he brought to life the ideas of such thinkers as Adam Smith, Karl Marx and John Maynard Keynes, emphasizing that economics needed to be examined in a global context. "I'm really not an economist," he said. "I bring an economic point of view to social and political problems...
...some semisuccessful attempts have been made to accommodate the events of Sept. 11 within a conventional literary novel; Joyce Maynard's The Usual Rules and Nicholas Rinaldi's Between Two Rivers slink to mind. But there's something missing, something about the paradigm-pulverizing force of the war on terrorism that is simply not conveyable in the old forms. For a glimpse of the new word order, you could do a lot worse than pick up Lorraine Adams' endlessly fascinating, curiously disorienting debut thriller, Harbor (Knopf; 292 pages...
...some semisuccessful attempts have been made to accommodate the events of Sept. 11 within a conventional literary novel; Joyce Maynard's The Usual Rules and Nicholas Rinaldi's Between Two Rivers slink to mind. But there's something missing, something about the paradigm-pulverizing force of the war on terrorism that is simply not conveyable in the old forms. For a glimpse of the new word order, you could do a lot worse than pick up Lorraine Adams' endlessly fascinating, curiously disorienting debut thriller, Harbor (Knopf; 292 pages...
DIED. JOHN MAYNARD SMITH, 84, evolutionary biologist who revolutionized the study of animal behavior by applying game theory to the study of evolution; in Sussex, England. He answered such questions as why parents sometimes stick around to raise their children but other times leave the burden to a mate...
Most influential philosopher or thinker: Robert May and John Maynard Smith...