"Lucid, deeply informed, and enlivened with striking illustrations, this penetrating study could be entitled 'Economics in the Real World.' Chang reveals the yawning gap between standard doctrines concerning economic development and what really has taken place from the origins of the industrial revolution until today. His incisive analysis shows how, and why, prescriptions based on reigning doctrines have caused severe harm, particularly to the most vulnerable and defenseless, and are likely to continue to do so."--Noam Chomsky Using irreverent wit, an engagingly personal style, and a battery of examples, Chang blasts holes in the "World I s Flat" orthodoxy of T homas Friedman and other liberal economists who argue that only unfettered capitalism and wide-open international trade can lift struggling nations out of poverty. On the contrary, Chang shows, today's economic superpowers--from the U .S. to Britain to his native Korea--all attained prosperity by shameless protectionism and government intervention in industry. We have conveniently forgotten this fact, telling ourselves a fairy tale about the magic of free trade and--via our proxies such as the World Bank, I nternational Monetary Fund, and World T rade Organization--ramming policies that suit ourselves down the throat of the developing world.

Thing 1: There is no such thing as free market.
Thing 4: The washing machine has changed the world more than the Internet.
Thing 5: Assume the worst about people, and you get the worst.
Thing 13: Making rich people richer doesn't make the rest of us richer.
If you've wondered how we did not see the economic collapse coming, Ha-Joon Chang knows the answer: We didn't ask what they didn't tell us about capitalism. This is a lighthearted book with a serious purpose: to question the assumptions behind the dogma and sheer hype that the dominant school of neoliberal economists—the apostles of the freemarket—have spun since the Age of Reagan.
Chang, the author of the international bestseller Bad Samaritans , is one of the world's most respected economists, a voice of sanity—and wit—in the tradition of John Kenneth Galbraith and Joseph Stiglitz. 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism equips readers with an understanding of how global capitalism works—and doesn't. In his final chapter, "How to Rebuild the World," Chang offers a vision of how we can shape capitalism to humane ends, instead of becoming slaves of the market.
Ha-Joon Chang teaches in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge. His books include the bestselling Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism . His Kicking Away the Ladder received the 2003 Myrdal Prize, and, in 2005, Chang was awarded the Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought.

How did the rich countries really become rich?  In this provocative study, Ha-Joon Chang examines the great pressure on developing countries from the developed world to adopt certain 'good policies' and 'good institutions', seen today as necessary for economic development. His conclusions are compelling and disturbing: that developed countries are attempting to 'kick away the ladder' with which they have climbed to the top, thereby preventing developing countries from adopting policies and institutions that they themselves have used.

Ha-Joon Chang provides an overview of the East Asian development model from the 1960s to the present day. He examines its relative success particularly in relation to industrial policy, in contrast to Africa. He takes a fresh look at the crisis that exploded in 1997, criticizing many mainstream explanations and looking in particular at the economy of South Korea.Looking to the future, he makes proposals for industrial policy and how local corporations in a country like Korea should be reformed.

中国就像一面多棱镜。在外国人眼中，中国是五千年文明积淀和荣辱史造就的数不尽的符号，他们鲜活、灿烂，却充满迷思；在中国人眼中，伟大祖国在新时代日新月异的发展和变化，成为东方巨龙再次腾飞的标识。然而，新中国60年风雨兼程、30年改革奇迹的宏伟篇章，不论是外国人还是中国人，如月下观海，又如身在庐山、只见一斑而难窥全貌。
本书借助全世界名家关于中国最有深度的研究，结合作者多年来对中国经济的实地走访和切身感受，探讨中国经济当前或未来几年最紧迫的问题。书中既有对上启两宋、中承明清、下迄当代的中国经济史的开阔叙述，又有对中国经济统计数据可靠性、中国乡村贫困现状如何评估等具体问题的细致解剖；既有对中国经济增长模式的分析和忧思，也有对中国参与构建国际经济新秩序的客观评估和中肯建议，可谓琳琅满目、精彩纷呈。
本书既在庐山之内又在庐山之外描绘变化中的宏观中国和细节中国，让我们这些即便身处“庐山”的人也能更清楚第认识“庐山”真面目。
正如书名所示，本书描绘和分析了中国经济之“路”：从哪里来、现在何处、去向何方？对过去风雪与辉煌的回望有着令人印象深刻的历史洞察力，对脚下泥泞的关注也颇有独到见地，而对远方地平线的眺望则是开放的。乍看目录，你会为本书框架之宏大吃一惊，又不免担心：会否每个问题都只能点到为止？作者以严谨的实证方法，尽可能在有限的篇幅里给出了富有启示性的回答。另外，本书征引了众多国内外学者对中国经济的研究成果，让读者眼界大开。总之，读完这本书，你会觉得，作者对中国经济的了解，与他的汉语水平同样值得称道！
胡舒立
《财经》前主编、中山大学传媒学院院长、著名新闻人
中国经济在全球经济中的重要性日益彰显，但要理解它绝非易事。即便在中国生活了20年，中国之于我，仍像俄罗斯之于丘吉尔，是“谜中之谜”。本书以通俗易懂的行文风格，系统梳理了全球一流学者的相关研究和中国面临的严峻挑战，并提出了诸多言之有理的政策建议，不仅对其北京的决策者有参考意义，也适用于布鲁塞尔、华盛顿和其他地方的决策者。中国面临的挑战沉重且艰巨，其应对结果关乎全世界每一个人。严峻的挑战需要严肃的研究。请帮助你自己，买一本书，让自己知道更多。
伍德克（Joerg Wuttke）
中国欧盟商会主席
王志浩的新著绝对是珍品。他以简练、赏心悦目的文笔，深入浅出地介绍当今中国面临的重大问题和相关争论。通过这本书，即使普通读者也能解开中国改革、经济增长和外汇储备等方面的种种疑惑。这是一本足以让其他经济学家艳羡不已的书中翘楚，恨不得是自己的创作。总之，王志浩为我们带来了极有分量的中国研究，堪称精彩绝伦！
乔纳森•安德森（Jonathan Anderson）
瑞银集团亚太区首席经济学家
本书深入探讨了对于理解中国经济发展至关重要的诸多问题，是一本极富洞见的精华之作。作者王志浩向读者介绍了全球学者对这些问题的研究，其内容上至帝国时期中国的经济增长源泉，近至中国怎样应对此次全球金融和经济危机。还有他本人对这些问题的深入思考，令人受益匪浅。
尼古拉斯•拉迪

内容简介
在这本里程碑式的著作中，诺思提出了一种新的理解经济变迁过程的方式。二十年前，道格拉斯•诺思通过揭示经济绩效大体上是由支撑市场的制度类型及质量所决定的，激发了经济史上的一场革命。正如他在开启新制度经济学之门的两本经典著作中所表明的，产权和交易成本是基本的决定因素。这里，诺思阐释了不同社会是如何形成制度性基础的，这种制度性基础在很大程度上决定了它们的经济轨迹。
诺思认为，经济变迁在很大程度上依赖于适应性效率，即一个社会在创造生产性的、稳定的、公平的以及广为接受的制度上的有效性——而且更为重要的是，这些制度要足够灵活，从而在应对政治和经济反馈时能够被变更或被取代。虽然坚持了早期对制度的定义，即制度是约束人类行为的正式或非正式的规则，但是为了探究这些规则的演化以及经济变迁的深层次决定因素，诺思拓展了先前的研究。利用心理学家的最新研究成果，诺思把意向性作为关键变量，揭示了意向性是怎样成为社会学习的结果及其随后是怎样影响经济的制度基础的，进而影响其对不断变化的环境的适应能力。
本书不仅解释了过去的制度变迁，而且解释了当今各经济体之间的不同经济绩效。因此，这部大作也是改进发展中国家绩效的重要指南。
名家评介
这本由大师创作的简短著作将为人们广泛阅读、探讨和争论。它大胆地迈向很少有人涉足的领域，是一本比经济增长甚至是经济史更加雄心勃勃的著作。它的主题是经济变迁，并且敢于提出那些对于专业人士而言仍将迷惑多年的论题。
——乔尔•莫可里，西北大学
正如诺思早期的经典著作《制度与制度变迁》引起了主导90年代的理解制度的革命一样，他的新著——《理解经济变迁过程》 ——寻求同样革命性的变迁。现在，诺思把认知成分融入这种分析：意识是怎样运行的，我们是怎样形成有关世界的信念和理解的，以及社会怎样解决——或没有解决——它们所面临的问题的。本书是诺思的上乘之作。
——巴里•温加斯特，斯坦福大学政治学教授
在这本著作中，诺思再一次开创了经济研究的新前沿。他提倡探究人类意识，以寻求关于个体和社会获取的知识如何在文化上和制度上影响变迁过程的理解。他勇敢地闯入了大多数经济学家比较陌生的领域，如社会心理学和认知科学，并用这些发现深化了我们对当今时代最为迫切的经济问题的理解：现代技术有巨大的生产能力，可是为何许多经济体仍然未能实现繁荣？
——阿夫纳•格雷夫，斯坦福大学
这本著作使诺思的研究历程达到了顶点，并指明了解决当今经济学中最有价值但也最不易解决的问题的方向：制度是如何演化的。当第一次读这本著作时，我立即发现了它对我研究工作的意义，并开始反思有关经济体及其政府如何相互联系的几个基本想法。从诺思那里学到的东西改变了我们的思考方式，这种改变是对其智力影响的最好测度。
——约翰•约瑟夫•沃利斯，马里兰大学

《经济增长的决定因素》以广阔的研究视角探索了经济增长的各种决定因素，不仅有经济因素，而且有政治因素。通过对大量跨国数据的分析，巴罗证实了三个基本结论：跨国数据支持条件收敛；民主和增长之间具有某种非线性关系；通货膨胀对经济增长的负面影响再高通货膨胀率情况下比较明显，但在低通货膨胀率情况下却不确定。
尽管《经济增长的决定因素》是经济增长领域的专著，但第一章的文献综述已经让读者领略到了经济增长思想发展的脉络，而且理解书中的绝大多数的内容并不需要高深的增长理论基础。

《人类行为的经济分析》集中体现并代表了贝克尔的学术思想和学术成就，这是因为，首先，贝克尔在本书中第一次明确阐述了他的研究方法，他的那些研究成果不过是这种研究方法的逻辑延伸和具体化，换言之，读者完全可以循着这一思路在人文科学领域里进行任何一个问题的研究；其次，《人类行为的经济分析》是一部特殊的文集，绝大部分章节的内容由贝克尔从他已发表的诸多论述中精心采撷、编篡而成，各个章节具有相对独立性，各章之间又彼此关联。

编辑推荐：本书是美国著名经济学家、诺贝尔经济学奖获得者诺思与人合作的一部经济发展中著述。作者在书中深入地考辨了西方经济的发展与财产权属关系演化的联系，作者从历史发展进路的角度，实在地揭示出，西方经济在近代以降之所以有突破性的发展，完全在于财产权属确定性的不断明晰。这一观点虽不能说具有殊多新意，惟其实在论方法尤其具有说服力。

Bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy-and why people are so irrational about money How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? Why do people get so emotional and irrational about bottom-line financial and business decisions? Is the capitalist marketplace a sort of Darwinian organism, evolved through natural selection as the fittest way to satisfy our needs? In this eye-opening exploration, author and psychologist Michael Shermer uncovers the evolutionary roots of our economic behavior. Drawing on the new field of neuroeconomics, Shermer investigates what brain scans reveal about bargaining, snap purchases, and establishing trust in business. He scrutinizes experiments in behavioral economics to understand why people hang on to losing stocks, why negotiations disintegrate into tit-for-tat disputes, and why money does not make us happy. He brings together astonishing findings from psychology, biology, and other sciences to describe how our tribal ancestry makes us suckers for brands, why researchers believe cooperation unleashes biochemicals similar to those released during sex, why free trade promises to build alliances between nations, and how even capuchin monkeys get indignant if they don't get a fair reward for their work.

Richard Thaler challenges the received economic wisdom by revealing many of the paradoxes that abound even in the most painstakingly constructed transactions. He presents literate, challenging, and often funny examples of such anomalies as why the winners at auctions are often the real losers - they pay too much and suffer the "winner's curse" - why gamblers bet on long shots at the end of a losing day, why shoppers will save on one appliance only to pass up the identical savings on another, and why sports fans who wouldn't pay more than $200 for a Super Bowl ticket wouldn't sell one they own for less than $400. He also demonstrates that markets do not always operate with the traplike efficiency we impute to them.

The efficient markets hypothesis has been the central proposition in finance for nearly thirty years. It states that securities prices in financial markets must equal fundamental values, either because all investors are rational or because arbitrage eliminates pricing anomalies. This book describes an alternative approach to the study of financial markets: behavioral finance. This approach starts with an observation that the assumptions of investor rationality and perfect arbitrage are overwhelmingly contradicted by both psychological and institutional evidence. In actual financial markets, less than fully rational investors trade against arbitrageurs whose resources are limited by risk aversion, short horizons, and agency problems. The book presents and empirically evaluates models of such inefficient markets. Behavioral finance models both explain the available financial data better than does the efficient markets hypothesis and generate new empirical predictions. These models can account for such anomalies as the superior performance of value stocks, the closed end fund puzzle, the high returns on stocks included in market indices, the persistence of stock price bubbles, and even the collapse of several well-known hedge funds in 1998. By summarizing and expanding the research in behavioral finance, the book builds a new theoretical and empirical foundation for the economic analysis of real-world markets.

如果你只有十几岁，阅读这本书会让你从童话般的寓言故事中获得经济学的启蒙教育！
如果你是二十几岁，阅读这本书可以让你再度温习一遍你在大学经济学课堂里让你迷糊的经济学天书，不过，这一次保证你再也不会迷糊了！
如果你是三十几岁到五十几岁，这本书可以纠正你思维中所滞留的的所有有偏差的经济学常识，经济学家已经把你的大脑固化了，现在该是你清醒的时候了！
如果你已经退休了，没关系，这本书既可以让你衡量你以前的经济学人生是否完美，也可以让你在孙辈面前有了培养他们智慧人生的最佳读物。
不信，你就试试看……
如何对经济领域的各种细节和现象进行整体性分析，这是一项艰巨的任务——特别是在很多专家似乎不可能承担这项任务时，它便显得尤为艰巨。但是，当你开始切实接触到经济学的基本要素时，就会发现这项任务比你想象的容易得多。《经济为什么会崩溃》一书运用插图、幽默口吻以及讲故事的平实手法，将经济学从高不可攀的架子上取下来，放回到厨房的餐桌上，它本就该属于那个地方。
这个关于鱼、渔网、存钱、借钱的故事揭露了全球经济对话中暗藏的众多漏洞。希夫兄弟以机智幽默的手法阐释了经济增长的根源、贸易、储蓄及风险三者的重要性，滞涨的根源、利率的影响及政府的刺激机制、消费信贷的破坏性本质等问题。两位作者还谈及其他许多经济原则问题，这些问题经常被讨论，却常常被误解。
这究竟是一本什么样的书？竟然能激起这么多人的阅读狂潮？想弄明白，还是翻开读一读吧！

经济的力量就在于其将世界上所有的人都包括在其中，没有任何一个人可以脱离经济而独善其身。那么，明白经济的逻辑，对经济进行全方位的了解肯定是有益的。如果能够愉悦而非痛苦的达到这一目的，想必自然更佳。对有意于此的读者来说，《经济的逻辑》不失为上选。

從現代社會起源至今，匯率一直是人類歷史上最重要的一股暗流。本文從宏觀角度介紹了匯率的本質以及影響匯率的因素，並詳盡介紹了歷代以來匯率的變遷。同時，文章剖析了近幾十年匯率在美國、英國、日本、拉美、亞洲、俄羅斯等地引起的諸多金融風暴，並以史為鑑，分析了中美匯率、歐元危機、世界貨幣等熱門話題的未來走勢。

从现代社会起源至今，汇率一直是人类历史上最重要的一股暗流。本文从宏观角度介绍了汇率的本质以及影响汇率的因素，并详尽介绍了历代以来汇率的变迁。同时，文章剖析了近几十年汇率在美国、英国、日本、拉美、亚洲、俄罗斯等地引起的诸多金融风暴，并以史为鉴，分析了中美汇率、欧元危机、世界货币等热门话题的未来走势。

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The economic tipping point for the United States is no longer theoretical. It is a reality today. The country has gone from the world′s largest creditor to its greatest debtor; the value of the dollar is sinking; domestic manufacturing is winding down – and these trends don′t seem to be slowing. Peter Schiff casts a sharp, clear–sighted eye on these factors and explains what the possible effects may be and how investors can protect themselves. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients reposition their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees is a nation facing an economic storm brought on by growing federal, personal, and corporate debt, too–little savings, a declining dollar, and lack of domestic manufacturing.
Crash–Proof is an informed and informative warning of a looming period marked by sizeable tax hikes, loss of retirement benefits, double digit inflation, even – as happened recently in Argentina – the possible collapse of the middle class. However, Schiff does have a survival plan that can provide the protection that readers will need in the coming years.

A fully updated follow-up to Peter Schiff's bestselling financial survival guide-Crash Proof, which described the U.S. economy as a house of cards on the verge of collapse, with over 80 pages of new material The economic and monetary disaster which seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff predicted is no longer hypothetical-it is here today. And nobody understands what to do in this situation better than the man who saw it coming. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients restructure their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees today is a nation facing an economic storm brought on by growing federal, personal, and corporate debt; too little savings; and a declining dollar. Crash Proof 2.0 picks up right where the first edition-a bestselling book that predicted the current market mayhem-left off. This timely guide takes into account the dramatic economic shifts that are reshaping America and provides you with the insights and information to navigate the dangerous terrain. Throughout the book, Schiff explains the factors that will affect your future financial stability and offers a specific three step plan to battle the current economic downturn. Discusses the measures you can take to protect yourself-as well as profit-during these difficult times Offers an insightful examination of the structural weaknesses underlying the economic meltdown Outlines a plan that will allow you to preserve wealth and protect the purchasing power of your savings Other titles by Schiff: Crash Proof and The Little Book of Bull Moves in Bear Markets Filled with in-depth insights and expert advice, Crash Proof 2.0 will help you survive and thrive during the coming years of economic uncertainty.
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he economic and monetary disaster, which seasoned Wall Street prognosticator Peter Schiff warned of in the bestselling first edition of Crash Proof, is no longer hypothetical—it is here today. And while most people believe that the economic collapse is over, the reality is that it has only just begun. That's why he's returned with Crash Proof 2.0. For more than a decade, Schiff has not only observed the U.S. economy, but also helped his clients restructure their portfolios to reflect his outlook. What he sees today is a nation facing a growing economic storm—brought on by bursting bubbles and growing federal, personal, and corporate debt—that will only continue to intensify as the U.S. government refuses to allow market forces to repair the damage. Crash Proof 2.0 picks up right where the first edition—which clearly foresaw the bursting of the real estate bubble, credit crunch, and the insolvency of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—left off and includes more than 80 new pages of up-to-the-minute analysis and advice. This timely guide takes into account the dramatic economic shifts that are reshaping America and provides you with valuable insights which will allow you to protect yourself, as well as prosper, during the difficult times that lie ahead. Throughout the book, Schiff explains the factors that will affect your future financial stability—from the bubble in bond prices and collapse of the dollar to surging long-term interest rates and run-away inflation—and offers a specific three-step plan to battle today's economic downturn, and tomorrow's market mayhem. STEP #1: Rethinking Your Stock Portfolio shows you exactly how to solidify your portfolio with foreign securities that are better positioned to weather the storm and deliver meaningful long-term returns STEP #2: Gold Rush examines the various ways to capitalize on the bull markets in gold and silver and explains how these precious metals can add both safety and growth potential to a conservative foreign stock portfolio STEP #3: Stay Liquid discusses the different aspects of liquidity and the importance of having it during times of financial turmoil Even with all that's happened in the last few years, the real collapse still lies ahead. With Crash Proof 2.0 as your guide, you'll discover a long-term plan that will put you in a better position to survive and thrive during the coming years of economic uncertainty.
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