经济
Poor Economics 豆瓣 Goodreads
8.8 (10 个评分)
作者:
Abhijit Banerjee
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Esther Duflo
PublicAffairs
2011
- 4
Winner of the 2011 Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book of the Year Award
Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst.
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Drawing on this and their 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, they have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work defies certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low.
This important book illuminates how the poor live, and offers all of us an opportunity to think of a world beyond poverty.
Learn more at www.pooreconomics.com
Billions of government dollars, and thousands of charitable organizations and NGOs, are dedicated to helping the world's poor. But much of their work is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best, harmful misperceptions at worst.
Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles, supervised by the Poverty Action Lab, is being carried out in dozens of countries. Drawing on this and their 15 years of research from Chile to India, Kenya to Indonesia, they have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people, their needs, and the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work defies certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all, that schooling equals learning, that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low.
This important book illuminates how the poor live, and offers all of us an opportunity to think of a world beyond poverty.
Learn more at www.pooreconomics.com
帝国经济风暴 豆瓣
作者:
张昕冉
浙江人民出版社
2021
- 9
《帝国经济风暴:大清帝国最后70年》
一本书讲透经济问题如何搞垮一个帝国。
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为什么晚清已被外国打得千疮百孔,仍旧能屹立不倒?
将清廷从内外交困的绝境中挽救出来的,竟然是厘金的横空出世?
鸦片和茶叶这两种普通的经济作物,如何改变了整个东方贸易格局?
为什么说“鸦片战争是历史的必然结果”?如何从中洞见新世界贸易体系的建立过程?
为什么商业的萧条反倒给了高利贷以兴盛的机会?
山西票号这个“巨无霸”的横空出世,如何一举改变了整个民间金融业的游戏规则?但其受限于经济主体、组织关系、操作手段三个方面,无法脱离为帝国体系服务的命运,只能随着清王朝一同走向没落。在这其间,它如何错过了转型的机会?如何被清政府的监管断了生路?它的种种自救手段因何难以见效?
一个日渐衰颓的庞大帝国,与一个野心勃勃的新兴强权,在世界逐步联为一体的过程中,两者不可避免地碰撞在一起,“天朝上国”的体面在现实的压力面前被彻底击垮。这时,满是烂账的财政状况既是问题之因,也是问题之果。在全面危机下,任何一种激进的改革方案都不可能取得根本性成功,局部的小修小补也不能阻止整体性的财政系统崩溃。
本书讲述了清政府针对外贸、财政、货币、银行、海关、商会这六个部分进行的改良,但财政是庶政之母,在帝国经济风暴之下,种种改革不仅无力回天,甚至引发了一系列复杂的连锁反应,最终导致整个政权的彻底崩溃。
在这个“数千年未有之大变局”的时代,传统与现代、保守与变革、封建与共和,种种思潮前所未有地交织在一起;农业文明与工业文明、中古国家与现代国家、封建社会与工商社会,种种矛盾集中上演。本书透视了晚清的风云变迁,以最通俗的语言揭示了清廷困局的形成原因及其经济改革的发展规律。
从现代化中国的原点,看清时代变迁。
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《中国国家历史》杂志、澎湃历史驻站作者、湖北大学史学博士张昕冉作品
著名经济学家李炜光、清史畅销书作家金满楼联合推荐 。
一本书讲透经济问题如何搞垮一个帝国。
————————————
为什么晚清已被外国打得千疮百孔,仍旧能屹立不倒?
将清廷从内外交困的绝境中挽救出来的,竟然是厘金的横空出世?
鸦片和茶叶这两种普通的经济作物,如何改变了整个东方贸易格局?
为什么说“鸦片战争是历史的必然结果”?如何从中洞见新世界贸易体系的建立过程?
为什么商业的萧条反倒给了高利贷以兴盛的机会?
山西票号这个“巨无霸”的横空出世,如何一举改变了整个民间金融业的游戏规则?但其受限于经济主体、组织关系、操作手段三个方面,无法脱离为帝国体系服务的命运,只能随着清王朝一同走向没落。在这其间,它如何错过了转型的机会?如何被清政府的监管断了生路?它的种种自救手段因何难以见效?
一个日渐衰颓的庞大帝国,与一个野心勃勃的新兴强权,在世界逐步联为一体的过程中,两者不可避免地碰撞在一起,“天朝上国”的体面在现实的压力面前被彻底击垮。这时,满是烂账的财政状况既是问题之因,也是问题之果。在全面危机下,任何一种激进的改革方案都不可能取得根本性成功,局部的小修小补也不能阻止整体性的财政系统崩溃。
本书讲述了清政府针对外贸、财政、货币、银行、海关、商会这六个部分进行的改良,但财政是庶政之母,在帝国经济风暴之下,种种改革不仅无力回天,甚至引发了一系列复杂的连锁反应,最终导致整个政权的彻底崩溃。
在这个“数千年未有之大变局”的时代,传统与现代、保守与变革、封建与共和,种种思潮前所未有地交织在一起;农业文明与工业文明、中古国家与现代国家、封建社会与工商社会,种种矛盾集中上演。本书透视了晚清的风云变迁,以最通俗的语言揭示了清廷困局的形成原因及其经济改革的发展规律。
从现代化中国的原点,看清时代变迁。
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《中国国家历史》杂志、澎湃历史驻站作者、湖北大学史学博士张昕冉作品
著名经济学家李炜光、清史畅销书作家金满楼联合推荐 。