好消息！人工智能无法取代人类，自动化永远存在最后一英里悖论。
坏消息！所有人都将被隐藏起来，成为信息机器上默默运转 的齿轮。
高度警觉视为“灵活”，孤立无援称为“自主”，克扣工资只是“技术错误”……
朝九晚五的全职就业逐步瓦解，在家工作得到的却不是自由。
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5年跨界研究，200余次实地访谈，10000余份问卷调查，
揭开即将波及全球数亿人，却鲜少见诸报端的新世界。
荣获——
★《金融时报》2019年评论家精选图书奖
★福特汉姆大学麦格农中心图书奖
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系统出现的一个小故障导致琼的MTurk账户突然被冻结——这是按需工人最可怕的噩梦。“没有一封电子邮件通知我软件出了问题；我只知道自己不能再登陆了，”她说，“我给客服打电话，他们告诉我必须等网站修复这个问题。账户冻结让我损失了近200美元。我失去了高薪工作，原因是平台自己出了问题，而不是我的工作质量有问题。”当事情出错的时候，琼这样的幽灵劳工根本不知道发生了什么，更别提追索补偿了。“我等了40个小时，不知道自己还能不能继续工作，能不能维持收入，也完全不知道原因。”
人类学家玛丽和计算机科学家西达尔特联手，揭露了人工智能和数字经济背后隐藏的人类劳动力。这支看不见的线上就业大军正不断扩张，它既不存在于现有的法律中，也未得到固有文化的承认，而算法无意识的残酷又带来了诸多未知。
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《销声匿迹》是一部即时的经典之作。它与那些阐明了制造业车间的伟大民族志形成共鸣。然而过去的产业依赖于一个生机勃勃的社区，其中人们一起工作、玩乐、生活。新的数字流水线上的工人们彼此并不相识，对我们而言也是陌生的。他们的不可见性使他们成了幽灵。格雷和苏里让我们能够看到他们，与他们共情，并认识到我们对于其处境的共谋。通过强调人工智能如何依赖于人类劳动，以及对于提供这些劳动的生命的丰富描述，作者们提出一个有着牢靠基础的面向改善和行动的策略工具包，从而为我们带来了希望。
——玛格丽特·莱维（Margaret Levi, 斯坦福大学政治学教授）

Is China building a new empire in rural Africa? Over the past decade, China's meteoric rise on the continent has raised a drumbeat of alarm. China has 9 percent of the world's arable land, 6 percent of its water, and over 20 percent of its people. Africa's savannahs and river basins host the planet's largest expanses of underutilized land and water. Few topics are as controversial and emotionally charged as the belief that the Chinese government is aggressively buying up huge tracts of prime African land to grow food to ship back to China.
In Will Africa Feed China?, Deborah Brautigam, one of the world's leading experts on China and Africa, probes the myths and realities behind the media headlines. Her careful research challenges the conventional wisdom; as she shows, Chinese farming investments are in fact surprisingly limited, and land acquisitions modest. Defying expectations, China actually exports more food to Africa than it imports. Is this picture likely to change? African governments are pushing hard for foreign capital, and China is building a portfolio of tools to allow its agribusiness firms to "go global." International concerns about "land grabbing" are well-justified. Yet to feed its own growing population, rural Africa must move from subsistence to commercial agriculture. What role will China play? Moving from the halls of power in Beijing to remote irrigated rice paddies of Africa, Will Africa Feed China? introduces the people and the politics that will shape the future of this engagement: the state-owned Chinese agribusiness firms that pioneered African farming in the 1960s and the entrepreneurial private investors who followed them. Their fascinating stories, and those of the African farmers and officials who are their counterparts, ground Brautigam's deeply informative, deftly balanced reporting.
Forcefully argued and empirically rich, Will Africa Feed China? will be a landmark work, shedding new light on China's evolving global quest for food security and Africa's possibilities for structural transformation.

Many thought China's rise would fundamentally remake the global order. Yet, much like other developing nations, the Chinese state now finds itself in a status quo characterized by free trade and American domination. Through a cutting-edge historical, sociological, and political analysis, Ho-fung Hung details the competing interests and economic realities that temper the dream of Chinese supremacy--forces that are stymieing growth throughout the global South.
Hung focuses on four common misconceptions: that China could undermine orthodoxy by offering an alternative model of growth; that China is radically altering power relations between the East and the West; that China is capable of diminishing the global power of the United States; and that the Chinese economy would restore the world's wealth after the 2008 financial crisis. His work reveals how much China depends on the existing order and how the interests of the Chinese elites maintain these ties. Through its perpetuation of the dollar standard and its addiction to U.S. Treasury bonds, China remains bound to the terms of its own prosperity, and its economic practices of exploiting debt bubbles are destined to fail. Hung ultimately warns of a postmiracle China that will grow increasingly assertive in attitude while remaining constrained in capability.

《中国改革:做对的和没做的》的作者华生，是影响我国经济改革进程的三项重要变革，即价格双轨制、资产经营责任制、股权分置改革的提出者和推动者，曾获孙冶方经济学奖、首批“国家级有突出贡献的专家”等学界最高荣誉。
《中国改革:做对的和没做的》是华生“中国改革系列”的开篇之作，主要包括华生对中国改革三十年的回顾与反思、对现状的理性判断以及改革下一步，如何以社会改革带动全面改革的路径设计。华生的文章，处处彰显他的睿智、雄辩、务实与理性，正如媒体对其评价：“不是坐而论道的经济学家”。
28年前，华生因力主价格双轨制改革而一举成名，中国历史轨迹由此而变。今天，这本凝聚华生心血的《中国改革:做对的和没做的》所讲的不仅是经济改革，而是包括社会改革和政治改革在内的改革全局；不仅直陈改革所面临的深层次困境，而且明确指出改革的动力与路径方案。