"I cannot pretend that the present version is the finished treatise that I had in mind (or in youthful dreams) in the earlier years of teaching the course. But it is a much expanded and, I hope, improved version. I have filled in four of the six gaps that I enumerated in the preface to the initial version. The two I have not filled in are industrial organization for reasons given at the end of chapter 6 and the theory of general equilibrium, because there are such good extant expositions of the classical Walrasian general equilibrium approach and I am not competent to present a succinct yet faithful exposition of the more recent general equilibrium developments, particularly in the field of growth models. In addition, I rather suspect that these developments are as yet in a preliminary and unsatisfactory state." – Milton Friedman, from the preface to the revised edition

The most powerful case against the American central bank ever written. This work begins with a mini-treatment of money and banking theory, and then plunges right in with the real history of the Federal Reserve System. Rothbard covers the struggle between competing elites and how they converged with the Fed.
Rothbard calls for the abolition of the central bank and a restoration of the gold standard. His popular treatment incorporates the best and most up-to-date scholarship on the Fed's origins and effects.
The contents of this volume include:
Introduction: Money and Politics
The Genesis of Money
What is the Optimum Quantity of Money?
Monetary Inflation and Counterfeiting
Legalized Counterfeiting
Loan Banking
Deposit Banking
Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: The Criminal Law
Problems for the Fractional-Reserve Banker: Insolvency
Booms and Busts
Types of Warehouse Receipts
Enter the Central Bank
Easing the Limits on Bank Credit Expansion
The Central Bank Buys Assets
Origins of the Federal Reserve: The Advent of the National Banking System
Origins of the Federal Reserve: Wall Steet Discontent
Putting Cartelization Across: The Progressive Line
Putting a Central Bank Across: Manipulating a Movement, 1897-1902
The Central Bank Movement Revives, 1906-1910
Culmination at Jekyll Island
The Fed at Last: Morgan-Controlled Inflation
The New Deal and the Displacement of the Morgans
Deposit "Insurance"
How the Fed Rules and Inflates
What Can Be Done?

Economic Theory is used by the author instead of a title like Micro Theory or Price Theory because of his deep belief that there is only one kind of economic theory, not separate theories for micro problems, macro problems, non-market decisions, and so on. Indeed, the most promising development in recent years in the literature on unemployment and other macro problems has been the increasing reliance on utility maximization. Much of Becker's discussion is related to the market sector in industrialized economies, the principles being developed are frequently applied to other sectors and different kinds of choices. Economic analysis is essential in understanding much of the behavior traditionally studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists. This is a true example of economic imperialism. The broad definition of economics in terms of scarce means and competing ends should be taken seriously and should be a source of pride to economists since it provides insights into a wide variety of problems.
Microeconomics, is the subject matter of these lectures. The lectures are emphatically, not confined to microeconomics in the literal sense of micro units like firms or households. Becker's main interest is in market behavior of aggregations of firms and households. Although important inferences are drawn about individual firms and households, the author tries to understand aggregate responses to changes in basic economic parameters like tax rates, tariff schedules, technology, or antitrust provisions.
It is important to choose the appropriate mathematical level of the presentation, especially since social science sophistication has improved in recent years. Beckerhas placed extended mathematical discussions in footnotes and appendixes. Practically all statements proved mathematically are also provided geometrically or verbally in the body of the text.

The New York Times bestselling Freakonomics was a worldwide sensation, selling more than four million copies in thirty-five languages and changing the way we look at the world. Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner return with Superfreakonomics , and fans and newcomers alike will find that the freak quel is even bolder, funnier, and more surprising than the first. SuperFreakonomics challenges the way we think all over again, exploring the hidden side of everything with such questions as: How is a street prostitute like a department-store Santa? What do hurricanes, heart attacks, and highway deaths have in common? Can eating kangaroo save the planet? Levitt and Dubner mix smart thinking and great storytelling like no one else. By examining how people respond to incentives, they show the world for what it really is—good, bad, ugly, and, in the final analysis, super freaky. Freakonomics has been imitated many times over—but only now, with SuperFreakonomics , has it met its match.

Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? How much do parents really matter? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He studies the riddles of everyday life—from cheating and crime to parenting and sports—and reaches conclusions that turn conventional wisdom on its head. Freakonomics is a groundbreaking collaboration between Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, an award-winning author and journalist. They set out to explore the inner workings of a crack gang, the truth about real estate agents, the secrets of the Ku Klux Klan, and much more. Through forceful storytelling and wry insight, they show that economics is, at root, the study of incentives—how people get what they want or need, especially when other people want or need the same thing.

《博弈:断裂社会的利益冲突与和谐》试图从利益均衡机制、转变增长模式、郎咸平提出的三个命题、国有企业改革、房地产博弈、足球革命、城市化、医疗改革、利益集团、突发事件等方面来阐述博弈以及实践。该书论述详细，对中国改革有一定的指导意义。
“博弈”是一个外来词，指人们在一定规则下进行竞赛。博弈论是“研究决策主体的行为在直接相互作用时，人们如何进行决策以及这种决策如何达到均衡的问题”。用我们日常的语言来说，博弈论是研究在不同情境下的策略选择的一种理论。

维基经济学的得名，缘于维基百科全书网站的巨大成功，它向世界证明：如果有一种方法充分利用组织里每一个人的智慧，它的能量将无比惊人！维基经济学所揭示的四个新法则——开放、对等、共享以及全球运作——正在取代一些旧的商业教条，许多成熟的传统公司正在从这种新的商务范式中受益。我们所熟知的企业如Google、亚马逊、宝洁、IBM、乐高、英特尔、宝马、波音、百思买、Youtube、MySpace等，都已经从维基经济中获得巨大的成功。
《维基经济学》的结论源自900万美元的研究项目，素有“数字经济之父”美誉的新经济学家唐·泰普斯科特向我们展示了个体力量的上升是如何改变商业社会的传统规则，这种利用大规模协作生产产品和提供服务的新方式，正颠覆我们对于传统知识创造模式的认识。
面对变化激烈的未来，企业和个人必须更有远见，掌握维基技术，拥抱维基理念，是21世纪最重要的商业素质。

《罗斯福新政的谎言》是一本批评罗斯福新政的书。观点犀利、新颖。它用大量事实证明。大萧条时期的政府政策的确延缓了经济的复苏，甚至对当今的美国仍有负面影响。在这本令人震惊的著作中，经济历史学家伯顿·W．福尔索姆揭露了富兰克林·D．罗斯福那史诗般神话传奇的实质。福尔索姆认为，罗斯福的道德品质很成问题。他对企业界精英充满仇恨，他所开创的新政，具有缺乏计划性、浪费性支出严重和为获取政治利益而投机的特点。罗斯福的一系列政策虽然改善了公众对政府的评价，却未能实现经济的复苏，而这才是当时的美国所迫切需要的。福尔索姆对罗斯福总统及其经济政策和个人生活持批判态度。
1932年当选总统的罗斯福，在执政期间遭逢美国历史上最为严重的经济大萧条。他采取了一系列政府干预经济的措施，但他的大部分举措，对当时和以后的美国都造成了灾难性的影响。在2008年席卷全球的金融危机中，西方国家为拯救本国经济，纷纷效仿罗斯福。采取政府干预的手段。当今美国广泛建设的政府项目，都能在新政中找到根源。如农业补贴、最低工资，等等。这些措施实际上都阻滞了经济的增长，并导致生产率下降和失业率上升，并未取得预期效果。
罗斯福对总统职务的专横态度永久性地改变了美国的政治格局。他操纵公众舆论。使得美国公民在不知不觉中成为了20世纪30年代经济停滞的同谋。在罗斯福去世60多年后。奥巴马喊出了“我们相信变革”的口号，而他所实施的“新”新政计划。也恰恰成了新政的延续。时至今日，美国及世界各国至今仍然无法摆脱罗斯福政治遗产巨大的负面影响。

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”

“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York Times

FINALIST: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer

Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Failshows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny.
 
Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is our man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it). Korea, to take just one example, is a remarkably homogenous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created those two different institutional trajectories. Acemoglu and Robinson marshal extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, among them:
 
• Will China’s economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West?
 
• Are America’s best days behind it? Are we creating a vicious cycle that enriches and empowers a small minority?

“This book will change the way people think about the wealth and poverty of nations . . . as ambitious as Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel.”—BusinessWeek

Time and Money argues persuasively that the troubles which characterise modern capital-intensive economies, particularly the episodes of boom and bust, may best be analysed with the aid of a capital-based macroeconomics. The primary focus of this text is the intertemporal structure of capital, an area that until now has been neglected in favour of labour and money-based macroeconomics.

Capitalism faltered at the end of the 1990s as corporations were rocked by fraud, the stock-market bubble burst and the American business model - unfettered self-interest, privatization and low tax - faced a storm of protest. But what are the alternatives to the mantras of market fundamentalism? Leading economist John Kay unravels the truth about markets, from Wall Street to Switzerland, from Russia to Mumbai, examining why some nations are rich and some poor, why 'one-size-fits-all' globalization hurts developing countries and why markets can work - but only in a humane social and cultural context. His answers offer a radical new blueprint for the future.

本书是作者以自己的亲身经历，记录了华尔街著名投资银行摩根士丹利，是怎样把一个耶鲁法学院的高才生，培养成了一名商场上的射击手。这些射击手，坐着飞机头等舱，出入豪华酒店，与世界各国的大公司交易着由世界顶级数学家、物理学家设计出来的金融产品。无数自以为非常成功的企业家和企业职业经理们，在只理解了华尔街出产的金融产品的一些皮毛后，就将几十亿美金送进了摩根士丹利的口袋。
在华尔街，如果有人说你是个好人，他的言外之意就是你是个笨蛋。对于大多数金融产品而言，买卖双方的盈亏之和等于零，也就是说一方的利润就是另一方的损失。本书作者所在的部门平均每人每年为公司赚1500万美元。书中提到的许多美国著名公司都是这些利润背后的牺牲品。
随着中国进入WTO，中国的金融市场也在快速地与国际金融接轨。在这重要的历史时期，本书几乎就是一本教科书。它教我们提高对金融产品的风险认识，防止华尔街银行家们利用我们对金融产品的无知来收学费。
前一时期发生的中航油事件，和摩根士丹利在中国收购的第一笔银行不良资产，都应该让我们深深地叹口气：要是早点读读《诚信的背后》就好了。

鬱金香狂熱（荷蘭文：Tulpenmanie）1637年發生在荷蘭，是世界上最早的泡沫經濟事件。當時由鄂圖曼土耳其引進的鬱金香球根異常地吸引人，引起大眾搶購，導致價格瘋狂飆高，在泡沫化過後，價格僅剩下泡沫時的百分之一，讓荷蘭各大都市陷入混亂。這個事件和英國的南海泡沫事件以及法國的密西西比公司並稱為近代歐洲三大泡沫事件。
（H-K摘自维基百科）

瑞斯曼(George Reisman)的巨著《资本主义》(Capitalism，1998年出版)指出，政府诱导货币及信用扩张的情形，好几世纪之前便已存在。瑞斯曼在书中指出，好几个世纪以来，“政府……本着扩张银行信用……能够创造真正的资本财富，进而创造繁荣的理念行事……生意人因为想要获得低利率，也就是他们所谓的‘容易钱’，因此会敦促政府这么做；当政府这么做时，企业界便报以热烈的掌声，但这么做带来的后果并非繁荣，而是景气起伏循环。”
因应景气循环的激进措施，绝对令一般读者目瞪口呆，在专业的经济学家中也一样不受欢迎。瑞斯曼的主张是采取百分之百的金本位或银本位制，也就是说，中央银行发行的所有钞票及存单，都必须存放百分之百等值黄金或白银。瑞斯曼解释，通过政府完全不加以干预的自由金融政策，这项制度将可长可久。
是的，传统的经济学理论认为中央银行之所以成立，是因为没有加以管制的自由银行体系会导致不稳定；但这样的银行体系从来不被允许存在过。
这里要理解的问题是，为什么真正自由的银行体系可以行得通？瑞斯曼的观察是，人为的信用扩张仍是合法且有可能的，但“它所有希望达到的目的都不会实现。”有关此看法以及其他相关的论点，主要是在《金钱与花钱》及《黄金 vs 通膨》两章里进行探讨，这两章几乎已经是正常情况下一本书的长度。
这本书被称为是经济学著作中的《战争与和平》，任何对经济学可能会遇到的问题，你都可以在这本书里找到答案。

这是一本投资实务领域的世界级和世纪级的经典著作，自从1949年首次出版以来，本书即成为股市上的《圣经》。本修订版在完整保留格雷厄姆原著1973年第4版的基础上，由贾森•兹威格根据近40年尤其是世纪之交全球股市的大动荡现实，进一步检验和佐证了价值投资理论。其中大量的注释和每章之后的点评非常有价值。股神巴菲特特为本书撰写的序言和评论是这个版本的又一个亮点。
本书首先明确了“投资”与“投机”的区别，指出聪明的投资者当如何确定预期收益。本书着重介绍防御型投资者与积极型投资者的投资组合策略，论述了投资者如何应对市场波动。本书还对基金投资、投资者与投资顾问的关系、普通投资者证券分析的一般方法、防御型投资者与积极型投资者的证券选择、可转换证券及认股权证等问题进行了详细阐述。在本书后面，作者列举分析了几组案例，论述了股息政策，最后着重分析了作为投资中心思想的“安全性”问题。
本书主要面向个人投资者，旨在对普通人在投资策略的选择和执行方面提供相应的指导。本书不是一本教人“如何成为百万富翁”的书籍，而更多地将注意力集中在投资的原理和投资者的态度方面，指导投资者避免陷入一些经常性的错误之中。

Practical and professional, this text bridges the gap between how undergraduate econometrics has traditionally been taught and how empirical researchers actually think about and apply econometric methods. The text's unique approach reflects how econometric instruction has evolved from simply describing a set of abstract recipes to showing how econometrics can be used to empirically study questions across a variety of disciplines. The systematic approach, where assumptions are introduced only as they are needed to obtain a certain result, makes the material easier for students, and leads to better econometric practice. It is organised around the type of data being analysed - an approach that simplifies the exposition and allows a more careful discussion of assumptions. Packed with relevant applications and a wealth of interesting data sets, the text emphasises examples that have implications for policy or provide evidence for or against economic theories.

A rich, entertaining, and profound reading experience. -- The New York Times
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