Millions have seen the movie and thousands have read the book but few have fully appreciated the mathematics developed by John Nash's beautiful mind. Today Nash's beautiful math has become a universal language for research in the social sciences and has infiltrated the realms of evolutionary biology, neuroscience, and even quantum physics. John Nash won the 1994 Nobel Prize in economics for pioneering research published in the 1950s on a new branch of mathematics known as game theory. At the time of Nash's early work, game theory was briefly popular among some mathematicians and Cold War analysts. But it remained obscure until the 1970s when evolutionary biologists began applying it to their work. In the 1980s economists began to embrace game theory. Since then it has found an ever expanding repertoire of applications among a wide range of scientific disciplines. Today neuroscientists peer into game players' brains, anthropologists play games with people from primitive cultures, biologists use games to explain the evolution of human language, and mathematicians exploit games to better understand social networks. A common thread connecting much of this research is its relevance to the ancient quest for a science of human social behavior, or "a Code of Nature," in the spirit of the fictional science of psychohistory described in the famous Foundation novels by the late Isaac Asimov. In A Beautiful Math, acclaimed science writer Tom Siegfried describes how game theory links the life sciences, social sciences, and physical sciences in a way that may bring Asimov's dream closer to reality.

First published more than a decade ago, "Globalizing Capital" remains an indispensable part of the economic literature today. Written by renowned economist Barry Eichengreen, this classic book emphasizes the importance of the international monetary system for understanding the international economy. Brief and lucid, "Globalizing Capital" is intended not only for economists, but also a general audience of historians, political scientists, professionals in government and business, and anyone with a broad interest in international relations.Eichengreen demonstrates that the international monetary system can be understood and effectively governed only if it is seen as a historical phenomenon extending from the period of the gold standard to today's world of fluctuating prices. This updated edition continues to document the effect of floating exchange rates and contains a new chapter on the Asian financial crisis, the advent of the euro, the future of the dollar, and related topics. "Globalizing Capital" shows how these and other recent developments can be put in perspective only once their political and historical contexts are understood.

For a century and a half the artists and intellectuals of Europe have scorned the bourgeoisie. And for a millennium and a half the philosophers and theologians of Europe have scorned the marketplace. The bourgeois life, capitalism, Mencken's "booboisie," and David Brooks' "bobos" all have been, and still are, framed as responsible for everything from financial and moral poverty to world wars and spiritual desuetude. Countering these centuries of assumptions and unexamined thinking is Deirdre N. McCloskey's "The Bourgeois Virtues", a magnum opus offering a radical view: capitalism is good for us. McCloskey's sweeping, charming, and even humorous survey of ethical thought and economic realities - from Plato to Barbara Ehrenreich - overturns every assumption we have about being bourgeois. Can you be virtuous and bourgeois? Do markets improve ethics? Has capitalism made us better as well as richer? Yes, yes, and yes, argues McCloskey, who takes on centuries of capitalism's critics with astonishing erudition and range of reference. Applying a new tradition of "virtue ethics" to our lives in modern economies, she affirms American capitalism without ignoring its faults and celebrates the bourgeois lives we actually live, without supposing that they must be lives without ethical foundations. High Noon, Kant, Bill Murray, the modern novel, Van Gogh, and, of course, economics and the economy all come into play in a book that can only be described as a monumental project and a life's work. "The Bourgeois Virtues" is nothing less than a dazzling reinterpretation of Western intellectual history, a dead-serious reply to the critics of capitalism - and surprising entertainment as well.

Is economics a science? Deidre McCloskey says 'Yes, but'. Yes, economics measures and predicts, but - like other sciences - it uses literary methods too. Economists use stories as geologists do, and metaphors as physicists do. The result is that the sciences, economics among them, must be read as 'rhetoric', in the sense of writing with intent. McCloskey's books, The Rhetoric of Economics(1985) and If You're So Smart(1990), have been widely discussed. In Knowledge and Persuasion in Economics he converses with his critics, suggesting that they too can gain from knowing their rhetoric. The humanistic and mathematical approaches to economics, says McCloskey, fit together in a new 'interpretive' economics. Along the way he places economics within the sciences, examines the role of mathematics in the field, replies to critics from the left, right and centre, and shows how economics can again take a leading place in the conversation of humankind.

In this witty, accessible, and revealing book, Deirdre McCloskey demystifies economic theory and practice to show that behind the economists claim to certainty is the ancient art of storytelling. If You're So Smart will engage, enlighten, and empower anyone trying to evaluate the experts who stand ready to engineer our lives.
"Writing with delicious wit and great seriousness."—Publishers Weekly. "
"McCloskey is more interesting on an uninspired day than most of her peers can manage at their very best."—Peter Passell, New York Times

Deirdre McCloskey's work in economics always calls into question its reputation as "the dismal science." She writes with passion and an unusually wide scope, drawing on literature and intellectual history in exciting, if unorthodox, ways. In this pamphlet, McCloskey reveals what she sees as the secret sins of economics that no one will discuss—two sins that "cripple" economics as a "scientific enterprise."

Deirdre N. McCloskey teaches economics and history at the University of Iowa and is the Tinbergen Distinguished Professor at Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Author of a dozen books in economics and history, she was formerly known as Donald. Her experience in changing gender is reflected in the new edition, but the message remains the same: economics needs to get serious about its rhetoric, and back to science. *Completely revised*Three new chapters, two new bibliographies*Publishing history: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985

《经济学的花言巧语》通过对经济学文本进行修辞分析，告诉我们经济学是科学，但也是文学。经济学家们宣称他们严格以事实和逻辑为基础，但是在经济学家的工具箱里，不仅有事实和逻辑，也有隐喻和故事，它们都是用于说服他人的手段。与其他学科一样，经济学家的工作也主要是说服，也是人们进行人文对话的一个领域。与其他领域一样，为了说服和对话，他们运用更多的文学性的修辞手段。
众多修辞手段是经济学家们取得成

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《纸与铁》提出了全新的观点，以颇有影响力的汉堡工商界为切入点，分析了为通货膨胀政策辩护的那些理由存在的漏洞，指出通货膨胀严重危害了德国经济，侵蚀了资产阶级社会的根基，使魏玛共和国这个福利国家失信于民。此外，通货膨胀也没能使赔款减少。作者剖析了长期以来德国政治经济体系的弊端。不仅揭示了魏玛共和国的失败根源可以追溯到威廉德国时期，而且还为分析第三帝国的兴起提供了不同的视角。在《纸与铁》德国经济灾难和政治之间关系的生动阐述中，相信你一定会从一个全新的角度理解德国通胀。
1923年德国的恶性通货膨胀是历史上少数影响深远的经济事件之一，人们普遍认为它是导致希特勒发迹的根源。然而，近年来有很多历史学家认为，通货膨胀政策不但刺激了经济增长，而且还帮助德国减少了赔款，因此对于1918年以后的德国是利大于弊。当时的德国没有其他可行的替代方案。
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卡尔·波兰尼（Karl Polanyi）与迈克尔·波兰尼（Michael Polanyi），一位是公认的20世纪最彻底、最有辨识力的经济史学家、社会思想家，一位被评价为欧洲最卓越的科学家和哲学家。彼得·德鲁克在《旁观者》中对他们的记叙令读者震惊于其家族的天赋与影响力，却 也令人遗憾地错误百出。
1980年代初，栗本慎一郎亲身前往匈牙利考察，并与分布在全世界的几乎所有波兰尼家族成员取得联系，完成这本“执拗地追究根源”的思想随笔。可以从中一窥波兰尼兄弟学术理念的源头，也可了解到波兰尼家族及周围文化人的活动对匈牙利的社会、政治与文化产生了何等重大的影响——这些影响不仅引发了1918年匈牙利革命，也一直延续到1956年的匈牙利事件甚至冷战结束后的今天。
波兰尼一家是20世纪初让布达佩斯沸腾起来的最具有代表性的一个家族，也是了解这段布达佩斯精神史最大的线索和钥匙。
也许是一种过分偶然的巧合，这些天才的大师都属于同一世代、处在同一城市，而且不仅学术，就连艺术的精神取向在深处也是相通的。
——栗本慎一郎

雅諾什．科爾奈是傑出的匈牙利經濟學家，青年時曾狂熱地信奉社會主義，之後轉而批判社會主義政治和經濟體系。他的家人大部分在二戰猶太大屠殺中喪生。他先後做過報社記者、研究員（因為政府禁止他在本國從事教學工作），1956年匈牙利十月革命爆發，他已具備堅實的理論基礎，成為頗具影響力的理論家。科爾奈是東西學術界交流的使者，並在哈佛大學經濟學終身教授職位上榮休。《思想的力量》是以第一身角度追溯了科爾奈一生的學術探索之旅。
這部自傳描述了科爾奈長達半個世紀的研究經歷及其成果，並介紹了進行這些研究工作時的社會和政治環境。許多秘密警察文件及告密者對科爾奈活動的報告，塵封已久，最近才得到披露，在如此重大困難的環境下，清楚地展示了作者在探索學術追求真理中所擁有的勇氣和思想力。科爾奈發表的《經濟管理的過度集中化》（1956），是第一部鐵幕生活下的人公開批判蘇式經濟的著作，在匈牙利國內受到猛烈抨擊，但卻受西方經濟學家青睞。科爾奈－利普塔克的雙層計劃理論引起數理經濟學家的注意。他後來出版了一系列著作，如備受爭議的《反均衡論》（1971），批評當時用來分析市場的主流經濟理論──一般均衡理論；《短缺經濟學》（1980）；《通向自由經濟之路》（1990）以及總結其畢生研究成果的著作《社會主義制度：共產主義的政治經濟學》（1992）。
對於主修經濟學思想、社會主義制度和後社會主義轉軌等專業的學生，以及對東歐學界如何經歷共產體制興衰感興趣的讀者，《思想的力量》是一本必備的重要學術參考書。

《保罗•萨缪尔森小传:经济学家成长之路》内容简介：萨缪尔森是20世纪最伟大的经济学家之一，他在经济学方面的理论成就和他本人的人格魅力至今影响着很多人。《保罗•萨缪尔森小传：经济学家成长之路》以对萨缪尔森的一生有着重要影响的时间和事件为切入点，对其思想精髓做了高度提炼，将其睿智的思想和人性的光辉生动地呈现出来，勾勒出了一条经济学家的成长之路。
《保罗•萨缪尔森小传：经济学家成长之路》适合高校经济学专业的师生阅读，也适合对经济学及萨缪尔森本人感兴趣的读者阅读使用。

Karl Polanyi's belief that the greatest threat to freedom was a poorly administered economy led him to an economics that was more existential and human-centered. Part I of this book develops Polanyi's thinking for its significance today through a selection of papers on re-reading his major work entitled "The Great Transformation." Part II looks at the life and work of Ilona Duczynska (Polanyi's wife), political activist, writer and translator and important influence over Karl and his work. Kenneth McRobbie, a poet and historian who teaches at the University of British Columbia, is the editor of "Humanity, Society and Commitment." Kari Polanyi Levitt, emeritus professor at McGill University, is the editor of "The Life and Work of Karl Polanyi."