近人对中国经济史的研究，有辉煌的成就，但也有两点可议的倾向。第一，断代研究的方式比较盛行，往往无法看出长时期发展的前后脉络。第二，有些人过分强调马克思经济史观在中国历史上的适用性，选择史料来迁就理论构架。
作者以普通经济学的观点，重新检讨中国古代社会经济的性质，认它是一个古代的市场经济，具有相当程度的社会分工以及相当自由的市场活动。以此理论基点出发，本书对这个市场做了具体的分析研究。市场可分为两大类，即生产要素市场及成品市场。本书前6章，讨论生产要素的市场。后4章，则讨论成品市场。

Skousen, author, editor, and academic, tells the story of the development of economic thought, describing his approach as " . . . a candid, irreverent, passionate, sometimes humorous and often highly opinionated account of the lives and theories of famous economists from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman." The author's unique view compares the development of economic thought to the construction of a building, designating Adam Smith's 1776 Wealth of Nations as the foundation. He contends that Smith's philosophy of natural liberty and the invisible hand was a sound foundation that created a new era of wealth and economic growth spanning two centuries. With the inclusion of photographs, diagrams, commentaries, and even appropriate music selections, each chapter is devoted to a major economist and his theories, showing how he added to or detracted from Smith's positions. Skousen ends on an optimistic note even as fighting continues over which economic policies to pursue in times of crisis, uncertainty, and globalization. Mary Whaley
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The big economic story of our times is not the Great Recession. It is how China and India began to embrace neoliberal ideas of economics and attributed a sense of dignity and liberty to the bourgeoisie they had denied for so long. The result was an explosion in economic growth and proof that economic change depends less on foreign trade, investment, or material causes, and a whole lot more on ideas and what people believe.
Or so says Deirdre N. McCloskey in Bourgeois Dignity, a fiercely contrarian history that wages a similar argument about economics in the West. Here she turns her attention to seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe to reconsider the birth of the industrial revolution and the rise of capitalism. According to McCloskey, our modern world was not the product of new markets and innovations, but rather the result of shifting opinions about them. During this time, talk of private property, commerce, and even the bourgeoisie itself radically altered, becoming far more approving and flying in the face of prejudices several millennia old. The wealth of nations, then, didn’t grow so dramatically because of economic factors: it grew because rhetoric about markets and free enterprise finally became enthusiastic and encouraging of their inherent dignity.
An utterly fascinating sequel to her critically acclaimed book The Bourgeois Virtues, Bourgeois Dignity is a feast of intellectual riches from one of our most spirited and ambitious historians—a work that will forever change our understanding of how the power of persuasion shapes our economic lives.

Only a few books stand as landmarks in social and scientific upheaval. Norbert Wiener's classic is one in that small company. Founder of the science of cybernetics—the study of the relationship between computers and the human nervous system—Wiener was widely misunderstood as one who advocated the automation of human life. As this book reveals, his vision was much more complex and interesting. He hoped that machines would release people from relentless and repetitive drudgery in order to achieve more creative pursuits. At the same time he realized the danger of dehumanizing and displacement. His book examines the implications of cybernetics for education, law, language, science, technology, as he anticipates the enormous impact—in effect, a third industrial revolution—that the computer has had on our lives.

Disagreements about the morality of markets, and about self-interested behavior within markets, run deep. They arise from perspectives within economics and political philosophy that appear to have nothing in common. In this book, Daniel Finn provides a framework for understanding these conflicting points of view. Recounting the arguments for and against markets and self-interest, he argues that every economy must address four fundamental problems: allocation, distribution, scale, and the quality of relations. In addition, every perspective on the morality of markets addresses explicitly or implicitly the economic, political, and cultural contexts of markets, or what Finn terms 'the moral ecology of markets'. His book enables a dialogue among the various participants in the debate over justice in markets. In this process, Finn engages with major figures in political philosophy, including John Rawls, Robert Nozick, and Michael Walzer, as well as in economics, notably Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek, and James Buchannan.

本書以「病夫」、「黃禍」和「睡獅」三項當代所熟知的西方視野之中國形象，研究其在近代中國思想論述的豐富意涵，系統性地了解這些符號對於近代中國思想論述中有關國族建構的影響。本書藉由釐清分梳百年來東西跨文化和跨語境互動過程的錯綜複雜關係，深入理解與分析中西文化百年來交會過程中，近代中國知識分子在面對強勢的西方文化價值，其愛憎交雜的糾纏心情；並剖析在公共集體記憶中，國族符號背後的複雜形成歷史，因而得以重新反思百年來「病夫」、「黃禍」和「睡獅」，持續作為近代國國族認同符號的深遠意涵。

James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius , brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood “talking drums” of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the poet’s brilliant and doomed daughter, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.
And then the information age comes upon us. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading. It will transform readers’ view of its subject.

1913 - Die Geschichte eines ungeheuren Jahres

Virtuos entfaltet Florian Illies das Panorama eines unvergleichlichen Jahres, in dem unsere Gegenwart beginnt. In Literatur, Kunst und Musik werden die Extreme ausgereizt, als gäbe es kein Morgen. Proust sucht nach der verlorenen Zeit, Malewitsch malt ein Quadrat, Benn liebt Lasker-Schüler, Strawinsky feiert das Frühlingsopfer, Kirchner gibt der Metropole ein Gesicht, Kafka, Joyce und Musil trinken am selben Tag in Triest einen Cappuccino - und in München verkauft ein österreichischer Postkartenmaler namens Adolf Hitler seine biederen Stadtansichten. 1913: Anfang und Ende, Triumph und Melancholie verschmelzen, alles wird Kunst. Nach diesem Sommer ist nichts mehr, wie es war. Wie kein anderer erweckt der elegante Stilist Florian Illies mit leisem Humor den Zauber eines Schlüsselmoments der Kulturgeschichte zum Leben.

《自由的逻辑》内容简介：迈克尔·博兰尼与哈耶克、波普尔同为“朝圣山学会”的重要代表人物，二战以来捍卫自由的有力斗士。然而，我国学界对哈耶克、波普尔介绍甚多，对博兰尼却少有提及。《自由的逻辑》是博兰尼的重要代表作，初版于1951年。正与哈耶克的《通往奴役之路》、波普尔的《开放社会及其敌人》具有相同的写作背景及目的，亦与这两部捍卫自由的名著有异曲同工之力。《自由的逻辑》收入了作者二战前后的数篇论文，雄辩地阐述了他一如既往倡导的主题，即科学发展与经济进步应以自由的实现为基本前提，而阉割自由的计划体制则有可能牺牲科学及经济发展。

《盛世危言》是中国思想界中一部较早地认真考虑从传统社会向现代社会转变的著作。就其对当时许多问题的思考，百年之后仍然不能抹杀其具有现实意义的光辉。《盛世危言》是一个全面系统地学习西方社会的纲领，它不讳言中国在社会生活的许多方面落后于西方。提出了从政治、经济、教育、舆论、司法等诸方面对中国社会进行改造的方案。
中国变法思想的集大成之作；
★从传统社会向现代社会转变的著作；
★19世纪末20世纪初最畅销书之一；
★影响了康有为、光绪帝、梁启超、孙中山、毛泽东等人的变革思想走向；
★一部从政治、经济、教育、舆论、司法等诸方面对中国社会进行改造的切实可行的方案；
★集中体现了郑观应关于改良封建社会、逐步实现君主立宪制度和资本主义经济制度的思想；
★提出的革新观念和“以商立国”的商战理论，对中国近代思想史及商业发展起了深远的影响。

The role of large-scale business enterprise--big business and its managers--during the formative years of modern capitalism (from the 1850s until the 1920s) is delineated in this pathmarking book. Alfred Chandler, Jr., the distinguished business historian, sets forth the reasons for the dominance of big business in American transportation, communications, and the central sectors of production and distribution. The managerial revolution, presented here with force and conviction, is the story of how the visible hand of management replaced what Adam Smith called the 'invisible hand' of market forces. Chandler shows that the fundamental shift toward managers running large enterprises exerted a far greater influence in determining size and concentration in American industry than other factors so often cited as critical: the quality of entrepreneurship, the availability of capital, or public policy.

"Scale and Scope" is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer prize-winning "The Visible Hand". Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the US, Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the late 20th century's most important developments.

一个企业的发展与崛起，绝非只是空有领导强人即可达成。任何的决策、同期的商业环境，都在都影响着企业的兴衰。《浪潮之巅》不只是一本历史书，除了讲述科技顶尖企业的发展规律，对于华尔街如何左右科技公司，以及金融风暴对科技产业的冲击，也多有着墨。此外，这本书也着力讲述很多尚在普及或将要发生的，比如微博和云计算，以及对下一代互联网科技产业浪潮的判断和预测。因为在极度商业化的今天，科技的进步和商机是分不开的。
诚如作者所言：“人的商业知识和眼光不是天生的，需要不断地、有心地学习。经过多年的学习、思考和实践，我认定这样一个规律，就是：科技的发展不是均匀的，而是以浪潮的形式出现。每一个人都应该看清楚浪潮，赶上浪潮，如此，便不枉此生。”

历史就是一种客观世界运动发展的过程。看透这个世界，你需要有一种历史惯性的思维。
这是一部预测10年内国际格局发展趋势的作品。未来十年，中国能否成为超级大国？东亚能否取代欧洲成为世界中心？欧盟、俄罗斯、日本将风采尽失？“金砖国家”将成为历史？ 中国应放弃不结盟政策吗？中国应采取何种外交方式？中国的周边国家，孰敌、孰友？中国该以何种思想引领世界？
本书深刻对比、剖析了中美未来十年的实力变化，提出了2023年世界将出现中美两个超级大国，两极格局也随即形成的大胆预测，同时还将世界主要大国未来十年的发展走势进行深入阐述，探讨了两极格局形成的必然性。作者还结合国内情势以及中国政策的发展方向，提出了独到的观点以及切实可行的政策建议。

一部历史写给现实的时事教科书！几位80后作者，用他们的笔描摹过去的世界，用他们的眼睛观察现在的世界，用他们的睿智迎接未来的世界！
站在21世纪的第二个十年里，回望100年前的时候，世界正在经历一场大变革：第一次世界大战刚刚结束，第二次工业革命的成果正在显现……百年之后的现在，世界仍然在酝酿一场大变革！
站在世界变革的风口浪尖，我们必须要有一种力量，一种应变大变局的力量。本书给我们的便是这种力量！书中从政治、经济、军事、人口、历史等诸多方面，为我们呈现了世界各国一路走来的风风雨雨。
回顾历史很容易，站在历史的车轮上选择下面的路却很难。这本书清楚地阐述了几位80后对当下道路的思考与选择。他们将会选择怎样的道路？他们又将和这个时代协商些什么？本书将会给你最好的答案！