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Now beyond its 11th printing and translated into twelve languages, Michael Porter's The Competitive Advantage of Nations has changed completely our conception of how prosperity is created and sustained in the modern global economy. Porter's groundbreaking study of international competitiveness has shaped national policy in countries around the world. It has also transformed thinking and action in states, cities, companies, and even entire regions such as Central America. Based on research in ten leading trading nations, The Competitive Advantage of Nations offers the first theory of competitiveness based on the causes of the productivity with which companies compete. Porter shows how traditional comparative advantages such as natural resources and pools of labor have been superseded as sources of prosperity, and how broad macroeconomic accounts of competitiveness are insufficient. The book introduces Porter's "diamond," a whole new way to understand the competitive position of a nation (or other locations) in global competition that is now an integral part of international business thinking. Porter's concept of "clusters," or groups of interconnected firms, suppliers, related industries, and institutions that arise in particular locations, has become a new way for companies and governments to think about economies, assess the competitive advantage of locations, and set public policy. Even before publication of the book, Porter's theory had guided national reassessments in New Zealand and elsewhere. His ideas and personal involvement have shaped strategy in countries as diverse as the Netherlands, Portugal, Taiwan, Costa Rica, and India, and regions such as Massachusetts, California, and the Basque country. Hundreds of cluster initiatives have flourished throughout the world. In an era of intensifying global competition, this pathbreaking book on the new wealth of nations has become the standard by which all future work must be measured.

Drawing on a wealth of new archival material, including personal correspondence and diaries, Robert Leonard tells the fascinating story of the creation of game theory by Hungarian Jewish mathematician John von Neumann and Austrian economist Oskar Morgenstern. Game theory first emerged amid discussions of the psychology and mathematics of chess in Germany and fin-de-siecle Austro-Hungary. In the 1930s, on the cusp of anti-Semitism and political upheaval, it was developed by von Neumann into an ambitious theory of social organization. It was shaped still further by its use in combat analysis in World War II and during the Cold War. Interweaving accounts of the period's economics, science, and mathematics, and drawing sensitively on the private lives of von Neumann and Morgenstern, Robert Leonard provides a detailed reconstruction of a complex historical drama.

The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism's future is far from assured. The global financial meltdown of 2008 nearly produced a great depression. Economies in Europe are still teetering. Income inequality, resource depletion, mass migrations from poor to rich countries, religious fundamentalism these are just a few of the threats to continuing prosperity. How can capitalism be sustained? And who should spearhead the effort? Criticsturn to government. In "Capitalism at Risk", Harvard Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while governments must play a role, businesses should take the lead. For enterprising companies whether large multinationals, established regional players, or small start-ups the current threats to market capitalism present important opportunities. "Capitalism at Risk" draws on discussions with business leaders around the world to identify ten potential disruptors of the global market system. Presenting examples of companies already making a difference, the authors explain how business must serve both as innovator and activist developing corporate strategies that effect change at the community, national, and international levels. Filled with rich insights, "Capitalism at Risk" presents a compelling and constructive vision for the future of market capitalism.

全球经济、政治乃至社会的动荡暴露出了未来的一种不确定性，人们逐渐聚焦于那些潜在的风险：旧的国际金融体系及国际组织与新的世界格局之间的不匹配、贫富差距过于悬殊、贸易保护主义抬头、环境恶化、恐怖主义等。
在这种时刻，始终关注企业发展的哈佛商学院率先探讨了企业在当前经济中所应扮演的角色，提出企业对改变世界将起至关重要的作用，它所代表的商业力量将为广泛的经济和社会问题找到解决途经。
本书观点作为一种探讨，将为研究当下世界变化的人提供参考。

One of the central questions of economics relates to the coordination of individual units within a large organization to achieve the central objectives of that organization. This book examines the problems involved in allocating resources in an economic system where decision-making is decentralized into the hands of individuals and individual enterprises. The decisions made by these economic agents must be coordinated because the input decisions of some must eventually equal the output decisions of others. Coordination arises naturally out of the mathematical theory of optimization but there is still the question of how it can be achieved in practice with dispersed knowledge. The essays here explore the many facets of this problem. Nine papers are grouped under the title 'Economies with a single maximand'. They include papers on static and dynamic optimization, decentralization within firms, and nonconvexities in optimizing problems. Fourteen papers are concerned with 'Economies with multiple objectives'. Among the topics covered here are stability of competitive equilibrium, stability in oligopology, and dynamic shortages. The final part of the book includes three papers on informational efficiency and informationally decentralized systems. Leonid Hurwitcz is the Nobel Prize Winner 2007 for The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, along with colleagues Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, for his work on the effectiveness of markets.

Analyzes the essential problems of human organizations--the motivation to work, the resolution of conflict, the exercise of leadership, and the creation of organizational change. Examines the relations between organizations and their environments, the effect of organizational demands and opportunities on individual health, and the experimental development of organizational alternatives to conventional bureaucratic structure. Applies theoretical principles to concrete organizational problems, illustrating with research findings.

Behavioural Theory of the Firm has become a classic work in organizational theory, and is one of the most significant contributions to improving the theory of the firm. This second edition includes new material which puts the original text in a contemporary context.

The crystal ball of the next technological era. Leading scientists， engineers， and entrepreneurs provide vivid accounts of the latest inventions， revealing how the new international balance of power really lies in information technology.

凱恩斯在《貨幣論》裡頭有一句話：「如果以貨幣為主線，重新撰寫經濟史，那將是相當激動人心的。」這部《從自由到壟斷──中國貨幣兩千年》就是從貨幣經濟的角度，對中國歷史的一番梳理和解讀。
作者朱嘉明是中國大陸在一九八○年代的「改革四君子」，受趙紫陽提拔，先後擔任國務院技術經濟研究中心助理研究員、中國社會科學院副研究員、河南省體制改革委員會副主任、北京青年經濟學會負責人、《中青年經濟論壇》主編、中國西部研究中心主任、中信國際問題研究所副所長。
朱嘉明在一九八四年籌辦「莫干山會議」，意氣風發，今天中國大陸金融界的一把手，如央行行長周小川、北京大學光華管理學院院長張維迎、中國國務院副總理王岐山，都是當年在會議中登場的青年學者。
六四之後，朱嘉明流亡海外，先後在美國、澳州、東南亞各國進修、工作。二○○○年之後，先後在聯合國工業發展組織（UNIDO）擔任工業發展官員，目前在奧地利維也納大學任教。
在這部耗時十年完成的著作，朱嘉明不僅思考當年中國大陸經濟改革之後，人民幣如何從沒有「含金量」、同時也不具備一般貨幣功能的通貨，走向市場經濟、進而發生通貨膨漲的過程，他更從歷史的脈絡，去看待貨幣在中國過去兩千年歷史中所扮演的角色，因而有了許多新的見解。
秦始皇滅六國，中國從此走入中央集權的皇權統治，但其中當時的統治技術還不足以管理這麼大的國家，因而貨幣經濟這一塊，向來是歷朝歷代鞭長莫及的，也因此，中國的貨幣經濟向來表現出濃厚的自由經濟色彩。而秦朝本身的滅亡，很大一部分原因是統一幣制，造成通貨緊縮，「錢貴物賤」。
中國向來是以政治力量的強弱來評判一個朝代的表現。所以像南宋，一般認為是不及格的朝代，但是從貨幣經濟的角度來看南宋，由於南宋的商品經濟非常發達，所積累的財富足以支撐與蒙古長達三十年的軍事對抗，甚至，在蒙古滅宋之後，宋朝的貴金屬財富成為蒙古維持一個橫跨歐亞帝國的資本。
像這樣不同於一般看待歷史的見解，在書中處處都是。而這本書就現實層面最重要的關注在於：國民政府在中國大陸所做的法幣改革以失敗告終，且為人民幣登場鋪了路。在作者眼中，人民幣是法幣的一種延續，而其基本想法都與凱因斯的貨幣思想相關。
目前的人民幣是一種「雙重」壟斷的貨幣，國家對貨幣發行權的壟斷和對支持人民幣的物資資源的壟斷。人民幣成了完全依賴於政府和國家信用的紙幣。在人民幣制度下，中國人民財富的形態只有人民幣，而人民幣為國家壟斷，國家透過人民幣供給數量和物價的不斷變動，實現國民財富的重分配。
在這樣的情形下來看人民幣的國際化、能否取代美元，以及如何控制通貨膨脹，都存在許多變數，本書在這部份，恰可提出多角度的觀照。

This volume presents the first comprehensive, detailed and up-to-date overview of current knowledge in the Economics of Technological Change. It reviews what is known and accepted for research in the future by taking the reader to the boundaries of the subject. Key Topics covered are: * theory empirics and policy * technology and trade * the theory and practice of technology policy * finance and technological change * R&D and diffusion * measuring both technological change and its impact * game theoretic modelling of technological change. A leading international expert in the field surveys each major topic and the articles are specifically designed to be both rigorous and accessible. The quality and range of the contributors has ensured that the book is unique in covering the field in all is various dimensions whilst achieving the depth of analysis needed in each. For those in the fields of the Economics of Technological Change, Industrial Organization and Science and Technology Policy this book will be an essential text and reference. The material will be invaluable and accessible to students and researchers as well as those working or setting policy in these fields.

The Seventh Edition of THE EVOLUTION OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT presents the history of economics and the philosophies that drive the economic way of thinking. It stresses the importance of understanding contemporary economics, by grasping new ideas, evidence, problems and values that call for reconsideration of basic disputes and major contributions of the past. The textbook explains the ideas of the great economic thinkers and their logical connections to the world of today and tomorrow. Updated pedagogical features provide clear insight into issues like antitrust perspectives and game theory. Introducing ideas like Robert Solow's pioneering model to discuss recent renewed emphasis on growth theory and technological change, the author sheds historical light on modern debates and thoughts. Stanley Brue and Randy Grant carry on the legacy of Jacob Oser, the book's creator, by offering a scholarly and timely presentation of the history of economic thought.

In 1903 the Wright brothers' airplane travelled a couple of hundred yards. Today fleets of streamlined jets transport millions of people each day to cities worldwide. Between discovery and application, between invention and widespread use, there is a world of innovation, of tinkering, improvement and adaptation. This is the world David Mowery and Nathan Rosenberg map out in Paths of Innovation, a tour of the intersecting routes of technological change. Throughout their book, Mowery and Rosenberg demonstrate that the simultaneous emergence of new engineering and applied science disciplines in the universities, in tandem with growth in the Research and Development industry and scientific research, has been a primary factor in the rapid rate of technological change. Innovation and incentives to develop new, viable processes have led to the creation of new economic resources - which will determine the future of technological innovation and economic growth.

Hannan and Freeman examine the ecology of organizations by exploring the competition for resources and by trying to account for rates of entry and exit and for the diversity of organizational forms. They show that the destinies of organizations are determined more by impersonal forces than by the intervention of individuals.

Through the eyes of an inventor of new markets, Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation tells the story of how financial innovation - a concept that is misunderstood and under attack - has been a positive force in the last four decades. If properly designed and regulated, these "good derivatives" can open vast possibilities to address a variety of global problems. Filled with provocative ideas, fascinating stories, and valuable lessons, it will provide both an insightful interpretation of the last forty years in capital and environmental markets and a vision of world finance for the next forty years. As a young economist at the Chicago Board of Trade, Richard Sandor helped create interest rate futures, a development that revolutionized worldwide finance. Later, he pioneered the use of emissions trading to reduce acid rain, one of the most successful environmental programs ever. He will provide unique insights into the process of creating these new financial products. Covering successes and failures, the story describes the tireless process of inventing, educating and creating support for these new inventions in places like Chicago, New York, London, Paris and how it is unfolding today in Mumbai, Shanghai and Beijing. The book will tell the story of the creation of the Chicago Climate Exchange and its affiliated exchanges (European Climate Exchange, Chicago Climate Futures Exchange and Tianjin Climate Exchange, located in China). The lessons learned in these markets can play a critical role in effectively addressing global climate change and other pressing environmental issues. The author argues that market-based trading systems are a far more effective means of reducing pollutants than "command-and-control". Environmental markets may ultimately help to find solutions to issues such as rainforest destruction, water problems and biodiversity threats. Written in an engaging, narrative style, Good Derivatives will be of interest to both practitioners and general readers who want to better understand the creative process of financial innovation. In the middle of so much distrust of markets, it is also a recipe of how transparent, well-regulated markets can be a force for good in the environmental, health, and social areas.

The authors use copious amounts of data ... to make the compelling case that any well-informed person should have seen the Great Recession coming. The essence of their book is that while financial crises come in different varieties, they are not mysteriously born of undersea earthquakes, but frequently occurring events that can be spotted and even controlled if politicians and regulators know what to look for. -- Devin Leonard New York Times Reinhart and Rogoff have compiled an impressive database, which covers eight centuries of government debt defaults from around the world. They have also collected statistics on inflation rates from every country where information is available and on banking crises and international capital flows over the past couple of centuries. This lengthy historical study gives what they call a 'panoramic view' of the unending cycle of boom and bust, showing how claims that 'this time is different' are invariably proven wrong... This Time Is Different doesn't simply explain what went wrong in our most recent crisis. This book also provides a roadmap of how things are likely to pan out in the years to come... This Time Is Different is an important addition to the literature of financial history. -- Edward Chancellor Wall Street Journal Professor Rogoff and his longtime collaborator Carmen Reinhart ... know more about the history of financial crises than anyone alive. The pair have just published their broad survey of financial crises, This Time is Different. In an era when most 'analysts' rely on maybe 30 or 40 years' worth of financial history--and then only that of the U.S.--the authors' knowledge of financial crises and government bond defaults going back to the Spanish empire and before offers a richer perspective. -- Brett Arends Wall Street Journal [E]ssential reading ... both for its originality and for the sobering patterns of financial behaviour it reveals. Economist The four most dangerous words in finance are 'this time is different.' Thanks to this masterpiece by Carmen Reinhart at the University of Maryland and Kenneth Rogoff of Harvard, no one can doubt this again... The authors have put an immense amount of work into collecting the data financial institutions needed if they were to have any chance of making quantitative risk management work. -- Martin Wolf Financial Times Everyone working on economic policy should own This Time is Different and open it for a bracing blast of sobriety when things seem to be going well. -- Greg Ip Washington Post [A] fine new history of financial debacles. -- Daniel Gross Newsweek Wouldn't it be nice to have $1,000 for every time a pundit proclaims an era of endless prosperity, consigning booms and busts to the dumpster of history? The next time you hear that canard (and you will) pour yourself a single malt and dip into Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff's landmark study, This Time Is Different. Wherever you open the book, you'll find proof that debt-fueled expansions have ended in financial ruin for hundreds of years... The result is a visual history laid out in beguilingly simple graphs and tables, making the book both definitive--a must read for professors and investors--and accessible to a wider audience. -- James Pressley Bloomberg News Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff have delivered a powerful and eloquent statement... Reinhart and Rogoff have done an extraordinary job in putting together statistics on government debt--a task that economic historians should have done long ago but shied away from because of the difficulties of defining 'government', which is often complex and multi-layered. -- Harold James The American Interest Unlike prior narrative accounts of market panics from such finance writers as Charles Kindleberger and Edward Chancellor, Reinhart and Rogoff give us a data-driven study that is global in sweep but also a model of clarity. The authors package their notably nonhysterical analysis of the latest crisis in a large, self-contained section of the book inviting harried readers to skip right ahead to it. -- Daniel Akst CNNMoney.com A tour de force of quantitative analysis covering financial crises affecting 66 countries over the past 800 years, the book identifies pre-crisis patterns that recur with eerie consistency. This Time is Different is a must-read for anyone on the lookout for canaries in coal mines. Barron's This is certainly one of the must-read books of the year. -- Arnold Kling Econlog.com Rogoff and Reinhart ... provide an eye-opening look at the cycles of boom and bust and how governments deal with those cycles. Arkansas Business [A] valuable new book. Idaho Statesman Having studied mountains of economic data during the past eight centuries, the authors insightfully point out the highly repetitive nature of financial crises resulted from a dangerous mix of hubris, euphoria and amnesia. Shanghai Daily

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Manias, Panics, and Crashes, Fifth Edition is an engaging and entertaining account of the way that mismanagement of money and credit has led to financial explosions over the centuries. Covering such topics as the history and anatomy of crises, speculative manias, and the lender of last resort, this book puts the turbulence of the financial world in perspective. The updated fifth edition expands upon each chapter, and includes two new chapters focusing on significant financial crises of the last fifteen years.

《变革中国:市场经济的中国之路》是新制度经济学鼻祖、产权理论的创始人、102岁的诺贝尔经济学家得主科斯讲述的一个有着中国特色的独特故事。在过去30年里，中国从一个市场和企业精神被禁锢而贫困潦倒的国度，成功地转型为一个市场开放、私企盛行的全球经济重镇。改革伊始，中国领导人痛定思痛，解放思想，实事求是，在坚守社会主义立场的同时，官方和民间改革并举，共同打造“中国特色社会主义市场经济”。
《变革中国:市场经济的中国之路》向世人揭示这一切的来龙去脉。它展现给读者中国走向现代市场经济的曲折险途和波澜历程。作者以实地调研为基础，参考国内外众多文献，根据多年对中国经济发展的跟踪观察和对市场经济的长期理论思考，直笔而书，成就中国改革一家之言。
《变革中国：市场经济的中国之路》基于作者长期以来对中国经济的跟踪观察和研究，从毛泽东时代谈起，完整地梳理了中国如何从一个市场和企业精神被禁锢的国度，成功转型为一个市场开放的全球经济重镇，以及这个过程中经历的曲折和波澜，同时针对存在的问题，对中国经济的未来提出了诊断和预测。
作为新制度经济学和产权理论、交易成本的创始人，科斯教授是20世纪以来最重要的经济学大师之一，是对中国经济发展产生直接影响的最重要的经济学家。国内众多的顶尖学者也深受其影响，诸如张五常、吴敬琏、周其仁、张维迎、盛洪、向松祚等，从而影响了中国经济发展的进程。2008年，科斯遍邀全球著名经济学家如蒙代尔、诺斯、福格尔，以及中国的经济学家、企业家和政府官员等，组织了“中国经济制度变革三十周年国际学术研讨会”。张五常著名的《中国的经济制度》，即根据这次研讨会的主题论文整理而成。
可以说，《变革中国》是经济版的《论中国》，文字通俗，可读性极佳。相比于国内作者，科斯教授的立场更独立，叙述更客观、更有说服力。相比于国外的其他经济学家，科斯教授长期以来跟踪研究中国经济，他的叙述更全面更深刻。

事实与价值的二分法是现代道德哲学和政治哲学的根本前提,对这一前提的批判是当代实践哲学最富有挑战性的主题。美国哲学家普特南是这一思潮中颇有深度和影响的人物。本书立足与实用主义转向后的基本立场，从知识论、伦理学和科学哲学的角度对事实与价值的二分法展开了猛烈的批判，堪称20世纪70年代以后兴起的新实用主义思潮的简要总结。