Over the last three million years or so, our lineage has diverged sharply from those of our great ape relatives. Change has been rapid (in evolutionary terms) and pervasive. Morphology, life history, social life, sexual behavior, and foraging patterns have all shifted sharply away from other great apes. No other great ape lineage--including those of chimpanzees and gorillas--seems to have undergone such a profound transformation. In The Evolved Apprentice, Kim Sterelny argues that the divergence stems from the fact that humans gradually came to enrich the learning environment of the next generation. Humans came to cooperate in sharing information, and to cooperate ecologically and reproductively as well, and these changes initiated positive feedback loops that drove us further from other great apes.
Sterelny develops a new theory of the evolution of human cognition and human social life that emphasizes the gradual evolution of information sharing practices across generations and how information sharing transformed human minds and social lives. Sterelny proposes that humans developed a new form of ecological interaction with their environment, cooperative foraging, which led to positive feedback linking ecological cooperation, cultural learning, and environmental change. The ability to cope with the immense variety of human ancestral environments and social forms, he argues, depended not just on adapted minds but also on adapted developmental environments.

本书将美国的社会科学话语置于美国文化、政治与制度语境中，深入分析自美国重建时期至经济大萧条前夕塑造美国社会科学学术传统的基本意识形态假设：美国例外论。例外论观点认为，美国基于其共和政府和广泛的经济机遇而在世界历史中占据特殊地位，可以避免欧洲面临的历史变迁、大规模的贫困和阶级冲突等问题。然而，内战经历、迅速的工业化以及宗教承诺的衰落带来了一场突如其来的民族危机，迫使美国不得不面对现实与观念的历史变迁。美国社会科学的各个学科正是诞生于这场危机，它们的发展正体现了保留例外论理想的利益对这些历史变迁的逃避和驯化。作者向我们展示了每一门社会科学学科在发展自身知识传统时，如何对历史意识、政治需要、职业结构以及可利用的科学概念做出反应，如何以自然科学而非历史学为基础建立模型，并嵌入自由个人主义的意识形态之中。

《共同合作:集体行为、公共资源与实践中的多元方法》研究了不同方法如何促进与集体行为和公共资源有关的各种理论的发展，证明了涉及不同传统的多元方法研究交融互补的重要性，考察了交融互补难以实现的原因，并提出了通过合作克服这些挑战的方法。作者在书中提供了许多与集体行为和公共资源有关的合作、多元方法研究的案例。对案例研究、荟萃分析、大样本实地研究、实验和模型以及基于实证的行为人模型的优点和缺点进行了分析，并考察了这些方法对自然资源管理集体行为研究的贡献。《共同合作:集体行为、公共资源与实践中的多元方法》承认了影响和约束研究的学术动机，修订了集体行为理论，并为研究人员和学生提供了多学科的实际解决方案。

Review
Journal of Modern History : The book is a pleasure to read: the prose sparkles; the protagonists are vividly drawn; the illustrations are handsome and illuminating; the insights plentiful and sharp. This will remain the definitive work on the early development of mathematical statistics for some time to come.
--Lorraine J. Daston
Science : An exceptionally searching, almost loving, study of the relevant inspirations and aberrations of its principal characters James Bernoulli, de Moivre, Bayes, Laplace, Gauss, Quetelet, Lexis, Galton, Edgeworth, and Pearson, not neglecting a grand supporting cast...The definitive record of an intellectual Golden Age, an overoptimistic climb to a height not to be maintained.
--M. Stone
New York Times Book Review : One is tempted to say that the history of statistics in the nineteenth century will be associated with the name Stigler.
--Morris Kline
Contemporary Psychology : In this tour de force of careful scholarship, Stephen Stigler has laid bare the people, ideas, and events underlying the development of statistics...He has written an important and wonderful book...Sometimes Stigler's prose is so evocative it is almost poetic.
--Howard Wainer
Review
Stigler's book exhibits a rare combination of mastery of technical materials, sensitivity to conceptual milieu, and near exhaustive familiarity with primary sources. An exemplary study
--Lorraine Daston

In the Origin of Wealth, Eric Beinhocker offers a thorough and convincing new way to think about economic growth and business management. The author begins by exploring the roots of modern economic theory and ultimately declares it outmoded and wrong. Instead, he suggests, markets and growth can best be explained by drawing on the emerging field of complexity economics: the study of markets and social systems as complex adaptive systems. Although biological metaphors in business have become familiar (i.e., organizations are living organisms), Beinhocker moves beyond metaphor to explain the revolutions in science that will inevitably change the way we think about economics, competition, and business. The Origin of Wealth raises important questions such as: How can one create strategy in uncertain and fast moving environments? Why is it hard for large organizations to be innovative and how should we organize for better results? What role should governments play in this new era?

This lively and provocative book casts an anthropological eye on the field of science in a wide-ranging and innovative discussion that integrates philosophy, history, sociology, and auto-ethnography. Jonathan Marks examines biological anthropology, the history of the life sciences, and the literature of science studies while upending common understandings of science and culture with a mixture of anthropology, common sense, and disarming humor.Science, Marks argues, is widely accepted to be three things: a method of understanding and a means of establishing facts about the universe, the facts themselves, and a voice of authority or a locus of cultural power. This triple identity creates conflicting roles and tensions within the field of science and leads to its record of instructive successes and failures. Among the topics Marks addresses are the scientific revolution, science as thought and performance, creationism, scientific fraud, and modern scientific racism. Applying his considerable insight, energy, and wit, Marks sheds new light on the evolution of science, its role in modern culture, and its challenges for the twenty-first century.

☆荣获第五届中国非通用语优秀科研成果（译著类）一等奖、当当网与“人文社科联合书单”联合评选的“2018人文社科年度好书” ☆
基因和文化是相互影响、共同演进的，在人类进化早期，基因对文化起到了决定性作用。本书讲述了人类伟大的迁移史、人类基因的秘密以及基因与文化的深刻互动和相互 影响，为读者呈现了一幅宏大的人类文化演进的历史画卷。所有这些内容会帮助我们重新认识种族差异、文化差异以及人类本身。

Economists seem to be everywhere in the media these days. But what exactly do today's economists do? What and how are they taught? Updating David Colander and Arjo Klamer's classic The Making of an Economist, this book shows what is happening in elite U.S. economics Ph.D. programs. By examining these programs, Colander gives a view of cutting-edge economics--and a glimpse at its likely future. And by comparing economics education today to the findings of the original book, the new book shows how much--and in what ways--the field has changed over the past two decades. The original book led to a reexamination of graduate education by the profession, and has been essential reading for prospective graduate students. Like its predecessor, The Making of an Economist, Redux is likely to provoke discussion within economics and beyond.
The book includes new interviews with students at Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, and Columbia. In these conversations, the students--the next generation of elite economists--colorfully and frankly describe what they think of their field and what graduate economics education is really like. The book concludes with reflections by Colander, Klamer, and Robert Solow.
This inside look at the making of economists will interest anyone who wants to better understand the economics profession. An indispensible tool for anyone thinking about graduate education in economics, this edition is complete with colorful interviews and predictions about the future of cutting-edge economics.

Statistics-driven thinking is ubiquitous in modern society. In this study of the history of statistics, which begins with probability theory in the 17th century, Alain Desrosieres shows how the evolution of modern statistics has been inextricably bound up with the knowledge and power of governments. He traces the complex reciprocity between modern governments and the mathematical artifacts that both dictate the duties of the state and measure its successes.

书籍简介:
我想，我们的历史遗产落在我们的肩上是过于沉重了，好象使我们无法前进。自从1945年光复以后，我们的国家遭受了特殊的苦难，17年来，两届充斥着贪污腐化的政权制造了今日危机的基础，我们正陷于贫困和痛苦的恶性循环之中。
我懂得，一个病人不能仅靠一次所谓革命的外科手术来治愈；他的健康也不能仅仅靠切除病灶而达到。要防止旧病复发，就需要经久不变地讲究卫生和保持一个强健的体魄。
但是，我们能在哪里找到出路呢？应当有路，有某条路。我常深夜迟迟不能入睡，思考着我们民族的过去和未来，草草记下不时产生的想法，按顺序整理出来，便写成了这本书。书中的叙述是粗糙的，描写也常常过于零散，但通观全篇，它相当忠实地表述了作者的思想。
作者简介：
朴正熙（1917年9月30日－1979年10月26日），1917年出生于韩国庆尚北道的善山市。1937年，他毕业于大邱师范学校，40年，入读新京满洲军官学校，44年毕业。
韩国光复后，服役于韩国陆军。1960年，韩国爆发了3·15选举舞弊事件以及4·19革命，整个国家陷入一片混乱当中。朴正熙当时担任第2军副司令。他表示要“尽快拯救陷入混乱中的祖国以及生活在水生火热之中的人民”，与青年将校们一起领导了1961年的5·16军事政变。
政变成功后，朴正熙掌握了最高国家权力，成为大韩民国第5至第9任总统，任期长达18年之久。
朴正熙任内最重要的政绩在于促成京釜高速国道的兴建，亦大力推行新村运动改革农村，使韩国的物流大幅改善，经济得以突飞猛进。韩国的GDP在1969年首次超越北韩，国民普遍认为那是朴正熙的改革取得成效。
朴正熙以俭朴著称，在任内大力整肃歪风，坚定捍卫自由立场，即使身故多年仍然赢得南韩国民的掌声。
但是，70年代以后，相对性的贫困现象的深化、长期执政所带来的副作用以及反维新民主化运动在很大程度上削弱了朴正熙的执政基础。为了保住执政地位，朴正熙反而愈加强硬地压制民主化的要求。政府通过了紧急措施，有很多人因此而被捕，此后以政治人物、知识分子、学生、宗教界人士为中心的民主化运动以及在经济开发过程中被忽略的劳动者和农民为中心的保卫生存权的运动愈演愈烈。
1979年10月26日朴正熙被韩国中央情报部首长金载圭暗杀身亡，终年62岁。

危机之后的反思——
·激励机制如何发挥作用？
·自由市场会产生什么风险？
·政府应当如何干预？
·市场和政府分别应该扮演什么样的角色？
我们需要——
·基于现实的经济学
《经济学人》、《纽约时报》、《金融时报》、《纽约书评》、彭博……共同推荐阅读！
作者是华尔街顶尖的财经记者。他在本书的第一部分对弗里德曼和芝加哥学派的自由市场观念进行了理论上的批判，将其称之为“乌托邦经济学”。在第二部分，他详细阐述了自己的替代论，将之称为“基于现实的经济学”。根据这两种不同的经济学，他在第三部分对2007～2009年的金融危机进行了细致的分析，指出金融危机是私人企业在放松管制条件下进行决定的结果。
本书没有简单地罗列危机事件，而是将它们置于一个学术和历史的框架中进行考量：亚当·斯密是如何演变为格林斯潘的？卡西迪通过一种独具匠心的结构，为我们讲述了自由市场思想起起落落的故事。他的考察范围从哈耶克到弗里德曼，从凯恩斯到马克思，涉猎极为广泛。
本书既是政策制定者、意见领袖以及学术同仁的必读之书，也是那些真正想了解过去与未来的人的理想选择。

关于美国科学界的现状大家众说纷纭，既有人担忧美国科学即将衰弱，也有人观察到不少美国受过良好训练的科学家却没有好的学术职业前景。谢宇和齐沃德就这一话题提出了众多的实证证据，他们清晰而又准确的分析——有时，还是出人意料的发现，有力地揭示了美国科学事业的长处和短板。

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Surveying three centuries of economic history, a Harvard professor argues for a leaner global system that puts national democracies front and center. From the mercantile monopolies of seventeenth-century empires to the modern-day authority of the WTO, IMF, and World Bank, the nations of the world have struggled to effectively harness globalization's promise. The economic narratives that underpinned these eras—the gold standard, the Bretton Woods regime, the "Washington Consensus"—brought great success and great failure. In this eloquent challenge to the reigning wisdom on globalization, Dani Rodrik offers a new narrative, one that embraces an ineluctable tension: we cannot simultaneously pursue democracy, national self-determination, and economic globalization. When the social arrangements of democracies inevitably clash with the international demands of globalization, national priorities should take precedence. Combining history with insight, humor with good-natured critique, Rodrik's case for a customizable globalization supported by a light frame of international rules shows the way to a balanced prosperity as we confront today's global challenges in trade, finance, and labor markets.

Between 1492 and 1914, Europeans conquered 84 percent of the globe. But why did Europe rise to the top, when for centuries the Chinese, Japanese, Ottomans, and South Asians were far more advanced? Why didn't these powers establish global dominance? In Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, distinguished economic historian Philip Hoffman demonstrates that conventional responses--such as geography, epidemic disease, and the Industrial Revolution--fail to provide answers. Arguing instead for the pivotal role of economic and political history, Hoffman shows that if variables had been at all different, Europe would not have achieved critical military innovations, and another power could have become master of the world.
In vivid detail, Hoffman sheds light on the two millennia of economic, political, and historical changes that set European states on a distinctive path of development and military rivalry. Compared to their counterparts in China, Japan, South Asia, and the Middle East, European leaders--whether chiefs, lords, kings, emperors, or prime ministers--had radically different incentives, which drove them to make war. These incentives, which Hoffman explores using an economic model of political costs and financial resources, resulted in astonishingly rapid growth in Europe's military sector from the Middle Ages on, and produced an insurmountable lead in gunpowder technology. The consequences determined which states established colonial empires or ran the slave trade, and even which economies were the first to industrialize.
Debunking traditional arguments, Why Did Europe Conquer the World? reveals the startling reasons behind Europe's historic global supremacy.

Our understanding of how the human brain performs mathematical calculations is far from complete, but in recent years there have been many exciting breakthroughs by scientists all over the world. Now, in The Number Sense, Stanislas Dehaene offers a fascinating look at this recent research, in an enlightening exploration of the mathematical mind. Dehaene begins with the eye-opening discovery that animals--including rats, pigeons, raccoons, and chimpanzees--can perform simple mathematical calculations, and that human infants also have a rudimentary number sense. Dehaene suggests that this rudimentary number sense is as basic to the way the brain understands the world as our perception of color or of objects in space, and, like these other abilities, our number sense is wired into the brain. These are but a few of the wealth of fascinating observations contained here. We also discover, for example, that because Chinese names for numbers are so short, Chinese people can remember up to nine or ten digits at a time--English-speaking people can only remember seven. The book also explores the unique abilities of idiot savants and mathematical geniuses, and we meet people whose minute brain lesions render their mathematical ability useless. This new and completely updated edition includes all of the most recent scientific data on how numbers are encoded by single neurons, and which brain areas activate when we perform calculations. Perhaps most important, The Number Sense reaches many provocative conclusions that will intrigue anyone interested in learning, mathematics, or the mind. "A delight." --Ian Stewart, New Scientist "Read The Number Sense for its rich insights into matters as varying as the cuneiform depiction of numbers, why Jean Piaget's theory of stages in infant learning is wrong, and to discover the brain regions involved in the number sense." --The New York Times Book Review "Dehaene weaves the latest technical research into a remarkably lucid and engrossing investigation. Even readers normally indifferent to mathematics will find themselves marveling at the wonder of minds making numbers." --Booklist

本书是著名经济学家汪丁丁教授2010年在北京大学讲授“行为经济学”课程的课堂讲义。
行为经济学是一门迅猛发展的新兴学科，它的两个分支——以脑科学研究方法为基础的神经经济学，以及以实验室研究方法为基础的实验经济学，近年来取得了突飞猛进的成就，却也将这一前沿学科引向了不同的方向。本书写作的主旨，在于通过演化论视角的提出，为“行为经济学”的学科基础建构提供一套在演化论视角下的整合框架，“将三匹马的不同方向归而为一”，促成学术共同体内对于该学科的基本概念和核心议题达成共识。
作为北京大学的课堂讲义，全书洋溢着作者随笔式的写作风格、清新的课堂交流氛围和丰富的学科前沿新知，堪称作者继《制度分析基础讲义》《经济学思想史讲义》之后的最新力作。