In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years. Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth provides an in-depth account of this momentous era. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end?
Gordon challenges the view that economic growth can or will continue unabated, and he demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 can't be repeated. He contends that the nation's productivity growth, which has already slowed to a crawl, will be further held back by the vexing headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government. Gordon warns that the younger generation may be the first in American history that fails to exceed their parents' standard of living, and that rather than depend on the great advances of the past, we must find new solutions to overcome the challenges facing us.
A critical voice in the debates over economic stagnation, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.
What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?
In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page.
This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative.
For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.

This 2008 book examines how multinational enterprises and international finance influenced the course of electrification around the world. Multinational enterprises played a crucial role in the spread of electric light and power from the 1870s through the first three decades of the twentieth century. However, their role did not persist, and by 1978 multinational enterprises in this sector had all but disappeared, replaced by electrical utility providers with national business structures. Yet, in recent years, there has been a vigorous revival. This book, a co-operative effort by the three authors and a group of experts from many countries, offers an analysis of the history of multinational enterprise. The authors take an integrated approach, not simply comparing national electrification experiences, but supplying a truly global account.

Programming Language Pragmatics is the most comprehensive programming language textbook available today. Taking the perspective that language design and language implementation are tightly interconnected, and that neither can be fully understood in isolation, this critically acclaimed and bestselling book has been thoroughly updated to cover the most recent developments in programming language design. With a new chapter on run-time program management and expanded coverage of concurrency, this new edition provides both students and professionals alike with a solid understanding of the most important issues driving software development today.

Classic programming foundations text now updated to familiarize students with the languages they are most likely to encounter in the workforce, including including Java 7, C++, C# 3.0, F#, Fortran 2008, Ada 2005, Scheme R6RS, and Perl 6.
New and expanded coverage of concurrency and run-time systems ensures students and professionals understand the most important advances driving software today.
Includes over 800 numbered examples to help the reader quickly cross-reference and access content.

Massie's sweeping narrative centers around the naval rivalry between Britain and Germany after the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, highlighting this as one of the major tensions that led to WW I.

本书勾勒了1720-1830年间，西学在日本的发展与实践。这段时期的前后两个年份中，前者标志着官方开始关注西学，后者则是驱逐西博尔德出境的年份。如果说日本的近代化始于明治维新的话，那么，从1868年回溯到1720年的近150年，则可以说是酝酿这场近代化的漫长的准备期。彼时的知识分子奋起反抗锁国，拼命探索来自国外的新知识。像本多利明这样有着充沛精力并极富热情的人们，促使日本发生了令人惊叹的变化。
本多利明是本书的核心人物，其手稿中的任何一页都充分表明他已进入一个新的时代，即近代日本。在他的书中，人们发现了一种新的精神：不安、好奇和接受。本多好奇于新的发现，乐于开阔眼界，甚至带着某种喜悦揭示日本只不过是大千世界中的一座小岛而已。对那些认为中华文明才是源远流长的日本人，他公然宣称拥有数千年历史的埃及才更为久远、更加崇高。他发现，世界充满了奇妙的事物，他坚持认为日本应该取诸所长。他尝试用西方人的视角观察日本，明了时局必将扭转，如今的国家已被严重耗费德行和物力。即便如此，他仍确信日本一定能够成为世界大国之一。

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation
From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members. As Carl Benedikt Frey shows, the Industrial Revolution created unprecedented wealth and prosperity over the long run, but the immediate consequences of mechanization were devastating for large swaths of the population. Middle-income jobs withered, wages stagnated, the labor share of income fell, profits surged, and economic inequality skyrocketed. These trends, Frey documents, broadly mirror those in our current age of automation, which began with the Computer Revolution.
Just as the Industrial Revolution eventually brought about extraordinary benefits for society, artificial intelligence systems have the potential to do the same. But Frey argues that this depends on how the short term is managed. In the nineteenth century, workers violently expressed their concerns over machines taking their jobs. The Luddite uprisings joined a long wave of machinery riots that swept across Europe and China. Today’s despairing middle class has not resorted to physical force, but their frustration has led to rising populism and the increasing fragmentation of society. As middle-class jobs continue to come under pressure, there’s no assurance that positive attitudes to technology will persist.
The Industrial Revolution was a defining moment in history, but few grasped its enormous consequences at the time. The Technology Trap demonstrates that in the midst of another technological revolution, the lessons of the past can help us to more effectively face the present.

商品没有腿，却比人走得更远。
文明因交换而出现，世界因商业而诞生。
二十一种商品，从丝绸到石油。
商业革命与现代社会格局之形成。
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丝绸连起了一个旧世界，
香料促使哥伦布发现新大陆，
鳕鱼将欧洲人带到北美，
毛皮令俄国人征服西伯利亚，
白银改写了中国历史，
郁金香导致世界第一场经济危机，
鸦片引发中英战争，
土豆和玉米带来人口爆炸，
香烟和咖啡颠覆传统文化，
棉花和煤炭催生工业革命，
橡胶和石油塑造了我们身处的现代社会……
每一次影响和改变世界的重大事件背后，都离不开商业革命。借助流动的商品，不同民族、文明、观念碰撞沟通，现代文化与今日社会之格局终得以形成。
每个人都无法摆脱历史，你我皆生活在其中。
历史终结的地方，生活还在继续。
从当下这个消费时代，回看历代商业革命，意义似乎更加深远。
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◎「食货」二字语出《尚书》，《史记·平准书》开「食货志」先河。班固《汉书》曰：「一曰食，二曰货。食谓农殖嘉谷可食之物，货谓布帛可衣，及金刀龟贝，所以分财布利通有无者也。二者，生民之本……食足货通，然后国实民富，而教化成。」其后，历代官方「食货志」主记田制、户口、赋役、漕运、仓库、钱法、盐法、杂税、矿冶、市籴、会计等。如今，「食货」二字基本涵盖国民经济生活的方方面面。本书取名《新食货志》，意在取历代「食货志」之思想精髓与历史精神，以现代历史观重新审视人类历史。谨以此书向中国历史之「食货志」致敬。
◎从“食”到“货”，是从贫穷到富裕，从短缺到过剩，从农业到工业，从古代到现代，从国家到全球化的历程。杜君立前作《现代的历程》主题是工业革命与现代，《新食货志》的主题则是商业革命与现代。《新食货志》可看作是《现代的历程》前传，二者互相印证，构成一个完整的世界经济史和人类文明史。
◎在许多国家，世界史教育比重已超过了本国史，学习世界史已成为现代公民的基本素质。中国公民也应该是世界公民。当代中国人生活在一个全球化的经济和物质社会，与农耕的古代中国社会大相径庭。只有了解相应的世界史，才能更好地理解当下生活。
◎本书为三十二开本精装书，内文为七十克优选鸿雅轻型纸，七百页的历史著作可以庞大，但不未必要沉重。外封食货图像元素皆取自西方铜版画，内封与环衬则印有百衲本《汉书·食货志》选段，呼应本书“致敬古代食货志”及“一部完整的世界经济史”主题。
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◎杜先生不是专业史家，但他是个关怀终生的知识分子，因而能比专家关心更大的问题。近年来，中华文化圈内的各处似乎都在警觉世界正亟，各个领域都有人关怀未来，悲欣交集，杜先生同样是关心者，我同意他的许多见解，也盼望他的作品。——许倬云
◎《新食货志》是特别好看的书。它最大的美妙是让我们理解：历史最好的馈赠，莫过于此时此刻的幸福生活本身。一件件微小事物温暖地围绕在身边，养活、滋润、丰富着生活，让辛劳的人生旅途足够多姿多彩，百味无穷，这是本书带给我们的最大满足。——陶林
◎两只狗不懂得互相之间交换骨头，是商业让人类不必再将需求完全诉诸暴力。如今，我们所食所用所看所听，无一不是「世界商品」。以今日眼光看待过去的中国与世界，就会发现一个不同的中国，一个不同的世界，一个不同的历史。读者要进入世界史，不妨选择一些小的入口，从小历史理解大历史，本书的意义就在于此。——杜君立

Zu Beginn des 18. Jahrhunderts entfesseln Isaac Newton und Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz eine heftige Debatte, die bis heute von Mathematikern und Philosophen geführt wird: Was ist das, was wir »Zeit« nennen? Thomas de Padova zeichnet das lebendige Bild einer Epoche, in der die Zeit zum heiß diskutierten Gegenstand der Naturwissenschaften wird und Uhren anfangen, unseren Alltag zu bestimmen. Eine fesselnde Entdeckungsreise in die beschleunigte Welt der Moderne.
»Nehmen Sie sich die Zeit und lesen Sie dieses Sachbuchjuwel. Sie werden nie mehr einfach so auf die Uhr schauen.«, SWR, 07.01.2014
»Spannend wie in einem Krimi schildert de Padova die beiden Genies. (...) Um das anschaulich und unterhaltsam geschriebene Sachbuch mit Genuss lesen zu können, braucht man übrigens keine besonderen mathematischen oder physikalischen Kenntnisse. Man muss sich nur Zeit dafür nehmen.«, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 02.01.2014
»Ein wunderbares Buch, das den Leser in eine andere Zeit versetzt und interessante Einblicke in die Anfänge der Wissenschaft liefert.«, Deutschlandfunk, 13.10.2013
»Thomas de Padova versteht es, abwechlungsreich und spannend zu erzählen. Seit langem hat mich kein Sachbuch so angenehm belehrt und vergnügt.«, Spektrum der Wissenschaft
»Eine wunderbar erzählte Doppelbiografie. (...) Für Entdeckerfreudige ein idealer Schmöker zum Start ins neue Jahr.«, KulturSPIEGEL
»De Padova inszeniert aus Philosophie, Kulturgeschichte und Physik einen erkenntnisreichen Showdown; Witz und Alltagsbezug sorgen dafür, dass seine Zeitrecherche nie die Bodenhaftung verliert.«, Philosophie Magazin
»Lesenswert.«, Wiener Zeitung (A), 14.04.2015
»Der Publizist Thomas de Padova hat darüber ein kluges und sehr spannendes Buch geschrieben«, Morgenpost am Sonntag, 23.02.2014
»Lebendig und packend erzählt.«, MDR - Figaro, 23.01.2014
»Das Herausstreichen wissenschaftlicher Entwicklungen vor den Gegebenheiten ihrer Epoche, die Kontextualisierungen von Philosophie und Zeitgeist, von historischer und gegenwärtiger Naturwissenschaft sind die Stärke de Padovas. (...) Das Sachbuch gerät keineswegs zur Plauderei, sondern bleibt kompakt und diszipliniert aufgebaut - gerade so wie ein Uhrwerk.«, Der Standard, 18.12.2013

'This book should be required reading in any senior - or graduate-level course on development economics, management of technology, S&T policy analysis and development, and related subjects. It will be of interest to policy analysts and developers, financial analysts, and others concerned with national, regional, local and global systems of innovation. Perez provides a fresh analysis of technological, financial and social booms and busts in an engaging and refreshing way. The book weaves a compelling new fabric of observation and theory, and shows that something can be done to learn from, anticipate, and deal constructively with, the tribulations of inter-linked technological, economic and social change. It does so concisely and in an idiom that bridges abstract economic theory with tangible human history and experience. If it is brought to their attention - as it should be - this compact book will give hope to those scholars, students and policy analysts who wonder what really happened in the cybertechnolgy/internet
gold-rush prior to 2001 and what could possibly lie ahead.'
- Morley Lipsett, Science and Public Policy
'Carlota Perez s thoughtful book. . . does an excellent job of showing the interplay between innovation and capital markets. Her theory is based on Schumpeterian economics - change is more important than equilibrium - and substantial empirical data. Her frame work, if accurate, has direct implications for our economy today.'
- Michael J. Mauboussin, The Consilient Observer
'It was Carlota Perez in the early 1980s, who designated the major changes in technology systems, such as mechanization, electrification or computerization, as ''changes of techno-economic paradigm'' a designation which has since been widely adopted. In this book she offers many new insights into these complex processes of social, economic and technological change. She traces the interactions between that part of the economy commonly known as ''financial capital'' and the evolution of technologies. Although this was an important aspect of Schumpeter's original work, it has been neglected by his followers, so that the book fills an important gap in the literature on business cycles and innovations. I most strongly commend it to all those attempting to understand the past and future evolution of technology and the economy.'
- Christopher Freeman, SPRU - Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Sussex, UK and Maastricht University, The Netherlands
'Before I read this book I thought that the history of technology was - to borrow Churchill's phrase - merely ''one damned thing after another''. Not so. Carlota Perez shows us that historically technological revolutions arrive with remarkable regularity, and that economies react to them in predictable phases. Her argument provides much needed perspective not just on history, but on our own times. And especially on our own information revolution.'
- W. Brian Arthur, Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital presents a novel interpretation of the good and bad times in the economy, taking a long-term perspective and linking technology and finance in an original and convincing way.
By analyzing the changing relationship between finance capital and production capital during the emergence, diffusion and assimilation of new technologies throughout the global economic system, this seminal book sheds new light on some of the most pressing economic problems of today.
A bold interpretation of how the changing relationship between technological advances and financial capital shapes the patterns of economic cycles, this path-breaking book will provide essential insights for business leaders, policymakers, academics and others concerned with managing change in the world economy.

Written at a time when furious arguments were raging about the best way to govern America, "The Federalist Papers" had the immediate practical aim of persuading New Yorkers to accept the newly drafted Constitution in 1787. In this they were supremely successful, but their influence also transcended contemporary debate to win them a lasting place in discussions of American political theory. Acclaimed by Thomas Jefferson as 'the best commentary on the principles of government which ever was written', "The Federalist Papers" make a powerful case for power-sharing between State and Federal authorities and for a Constitution that has endured largely unchanged for two hundred years.

Das Heilige Römische Reich Deutscher Nation war ein über die Jahrhunderte des Mittelalters allmählich gewachsenes politisches Gebilde, ein lose integrierter Verband sehr unterschiedlicher Glieder, die unter einem gemeinsamen Oberhaupt, dem Kaiser, standen: geistliche und weltliche Herrschaftsträger, wenige Mächtige und viele Mindermächtige, Kurfürsten und Fürsten, Prälaten, Grafen, Ritter und Städte. Um die Wende zur Neuzeit, also um 1500, bildete dieser Verband festere institutionelle Strukturen aus- vor allem Reichstage als Foren der Konsensbildung, das Reichskammergericht und den Reichshofrat als Organe höchster Gerichtsbarkeit und die Reichskreise als regionale Exekutivinstitutionen. Über die inneren Zerreißproben der Glaubensspaltung und des Dreißigjährigen Krieges hinweg hatten diese gemeinsamen Institutionen im Kern drei Jahrhunderte lang Bestand, bevor der ganze Verband dem machtpolitischen Expansionswillen der mächtigsten Glieder- vor allem Brandenburg- Preußen und ÖSterreich- zum Opfer fiel. Barbara Stollberg- Rilinger bietet in diesem Band eine klare und gut verständliche Einführung in die Geschichte des Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation.

Sie kamen, sahen und eroberten – 600 Jahre lang haben Europäer die Welt erkundet, unterworfen und ausgebeutet. Doch zugleich haben sie zahllose Impulse für die Entstehung unserer heutigen Welt gegeben und empfangen. Denn die europäische Expansion war keine Einbahnstraße, sondern ein jahrhundertelanger Prozess der Interaktionen. In Wolfgang Reinhards monumentalem Werk hat die Vorgeschichte der Globalisierung zu einer einzigartigen Gesamtdarstellung gefunden.
Der renommierte Historiker beschreibt von den frühen Anfängen der europäischen Expansion in Antike und Mittelalter bis zu den langwierigen Dekolonisationen des 20. Jahrhunderts einen weltgeschichtlichen Vorgang von gewaltigen zeitlichen und räumlichen Dimensionen. Ob er über die Handelssysteme in Asien berichtet oder über die künstliche Welt der Plantagen mit ihren Sklaven, über ökologische Folgen oder konfliktträchtige politische Hinterlassenschaften der europäischen Expansion, stets ist seine beeindruckend kenntnisreiche Geschichte spannend zu lesen und geprägt von dem Interesse nicht nur an den Europäern, sondern auch an – den Anderen.

Egypt, Greece and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world. It is written for the general reader and the student coming to the subject for the first time and provides a reliable and highly accessible point of entry to the period. The volume begins with the early civilizations of Sumer (modern Iraq) and continues through to the Islamic invasions and the birth of modern Europe after the collapse of the western Roman empire. The book ranges beyond political history to cover philosophy, art and literature. A wide range of maps, illustrations and photographs complements the text. The second edition incorporates new chapters on the ancient Mediterranean and the Ancient Near East, as well as extended coverage of Egypt.

With all the financial know-how and experience of the wizards on Wall Street and elsewhere, how is it that the market still goes boom and bust? How can people be so willing to get caught up in the mania of speculation when history tells us that a collapse is almost sure to follow? In this primer, the renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith reviews the major speculative episodes of the last three centuries - from the 17th century tulip craze to the calamitous junk-bond follies of the 1980s. His insights provide important lessons on speculative economics, and demonstrate conclusively that money and intelligence are not necessarily linked.