The First Modern Economy, first published in 1997, provides a comprehensive economic history of the Netherlands during its rise to European economic leadership, the 'Golden Age', and subsequent decline (1500-1815). The authors argue that it was the first modern economy, and defend their position with detailed analyses of its major economic sectors, as well as investigations of social structure and macro-economic performance. Dutch economic history is placed in its European and world context, and inter-continental and colonial trade are discussed fully. Special emphasis is placed on the environmental context of economic growth and later decline, as well as on demographic developments. The authors also argue that the Dutch model of development and stagnation is applicable to currently maturing economies.

From the stock market to genomics laboratories, census figures to marketing email blasts, we are awash with data. But as anyone who has ever opened up a spreadsheet packed with seemingly infinite lines of data knows, numbers aren’t enough: we need to know how to make those numbers talk. In The Model Thinker, social scientist Scott E. Page shows us the mathematical, statistical, and computational models–from linear regression to random walks and far beyond–that can turn anyone into a genius. At the core of the book is Page’s “many-model paradigm,” which shows the reader how to apply multiple models to organize the data, leading to wiser choices, more accurate predictions, and more robust designs. The Model Thinker provides a toolkit for business people, students, scientists, pollsters, and bloggers to make them better, clearer thinkers, able to leverage data and information to their advantage.

Being successful in the modern world of finance requires a more in-depth understanding of our global economies on a macro level. What does a shifting demographic cycle mean? How does the explosive growth of emerging markets matter? Why does the world's population affect my portfolio? Does the global monetary system impact my results this year? How does government intervention in markets impact my strategy? In Pragmatic Capitalism, Cullen Roche explores how our global economy works and why it is more important now than ever for investors to understand macroeconomics. Cullen Roche combines his expertise in global macro portfolio management, quantitative risk management, behavioral finance, and monetary theory to explain to readers how macroeconomics works, and provides insights and suggestions for getting the most out of their investment strategies. This book will uncover market myths and explain the rise of macroeconomics and why it impacts the readers' portfolio construction. Pragmatic Capitalism is a must for any sophisticated investor who wants to make the most of their portfolio.

The nationally bestselling author of Race and Culture and Inside America presents a devastating examination of the mind-set behind the failed social policies of the past 30 years, whose defects have led to crises on education, crime, and family dynamics, "An important and incisive book."--New York Times Book Review.

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The Worldly Philosophers is a bestselling classic that not only enables us to see more deeply into our history but helps us better understand our own times. In this seventh edition, Robert L. Heilbroner provides a new theme that connects thinkers as diverse as Adam Smith and Karl Marx. The theme is the common focus of their highly varied ideas -- namely, the search to understand how a capitalist society works. It is a focus never more needed than in this age of confusing economic headlines. In a bold new concluding chapter entitled "The End of the Worldly Philosophy?" Heilbroner reminds us that the word "end" refers to both the purpose and limits of economics. This chapter conveys a concern that today's increasingly "scientific" economics may overlook fundamental social and political issues that are central to economics. Thus, unlike its predecessors, this new edition provides not just an indispensable illumination of our past but a call to action for our future.

Beginning with the integration of Latin America into the world trading system centered on Europe and North America during the century before 1930, this 2003 book explores the successes and failures of export-led growth. Using new data on exports and a simple model to explore the relationship between exports and growth, the author pays particular attention to the question that has most concerned policy-makers in Latin America: how to transfer growth in the export sector to the rest of the economy, raising living standards and real income per head. The author examines the routes through which Latin American republics extricated themselves from the debt problem in pursuit of a new version of export-led growth. Taking its narrative from the end of the colonial epoch to the present, this book provides a comprehensive balanced portrait of the factors affecting economic development in Latin America.

张维迎关于公司治理模型的核心著作，为中国提供一个“企业家为中心的公司治理模型”。精装纪念版。
为什么要有公司和企业？企业究竟是如何运作的？中国的企业和公司究竟出了什么问题？
经济学家张维迎有关公司治理的核心著作，为中国提供一个“企业家为中心的公司治理模型”。只有解决产权制度缺陷，才能突破增长瓶颈。
公司治理结构是所有企业参与人及其利益相关者之间的关系。
公司治理结构的核心问题是如何在不同的企业参与人之间分配企业的剩余索取权和控制权。
公司治理结构的有效性主要取决于四个方面的制度安排；企业所有权安排，国家法律制度，市场竞争和信誉机制，经理人的薪酬制度及企业内部的晋升制度。

与国际接轨的公司法学教材，必须跳出学术界，向两个方面寻求素材：第1是实践部门，主要是我国法院的判例以及工商、税务等部门的实务；第二是国外的判例、规则和学术讨论。除此之外别无他路。本书正是在这两个方向上努力的。本书是作者30年的教学的经验总结和研究成果研究成果，资料详实，可供法律、经济、管理领域的人士阅读，受众面较广，具有长期的研读价值。

This study focuses on the role of institutions and organizations in the development of corporate finance from the Italian merchant banks of the Renaissance through the formation of conglomerates and leveraged-buy-out partnerships in contemporary Wall Street. It also puts forth a compelling argument for the closer integration of historical and quantitative research methodologies in financial theory. The epilogue contains an original algorithm that explains the relationship between the short-term, firm-specific factors and longer-term environmental elements that have shaped the historical development of finance.

什么是经济学？经济学如何解释世界的现象？有没有什么事情经济学无法解释？经济学到底为何重要？让剑桥经济学家、畅销经济书作家张夏准告诉你！
看新闻的时候、读政治类书籍的时候、日常生活与柴米油盐打交道的时候，你或许都会遇到与经济相关的问题，有过上述种种疑问。剑桥经济学家张夏准（Ha-Joon Chang）以他一贯轻快的笔调、广博的知识、清楚专业的口吻，写了这一本经济学的入门书，书中包含各类的经济学议题：什么是经济学、国家的角色、不公与贫穷、工作与失业、金融与生产。
许多经济学家只喜欢谈自己的学派，但张夏准却带读者认识从古典主义到凯因斯等各类经济学理论，析论各家长短，又解释为何经济现象的解释方法不只一种。各章后头还有延伸阅读，方便有兴趣的读者进一步深入挖掘，即便是读经济的学生也会觉得相当受用。
新古典主义、新自由主义学当道，研究发展经济及全球化议题的经济学家张夏准却独排众议，提出《资本主义没告诉你的23件事》（23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism）还有《富国的糖衣：揭穿自由贸易的真相》（Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism），破解全球经济常见的迷思。张夏准目前在剑桥大学教授经济学，并替《卫报》撰写专栏。

这是一部百科全书式的经典巨著，书写了15至18世纪的资本主义发达史，由法国年鉴学派第二代领军人物、集大成者布罗代尔历时二十余年结撰而成。作者认为，资本主义并不是一朝一夕出现的，其基础只能在长时段的日常物质生活中去寻找。因此他以“总体史”为目标，以长达四百年的时段为整体对 象，从特定角度描述了世界物质文明和经济发展的历史。
全书共分三卷。第一卷《日常生活的结构：可能和不可能》好比“为世界过一次磅”，旨在确认前工业化时期世界的潜力限度，当时“物质世界”占据重要地位。
作为集大成之作，本书不仅展示出布罗代尔的博学广闻和驾驭浩瀚史料的非凡才能，也充分体现了年鉴学派对长时段发展和经济社会结构两个维度的重视与研究，而它在架构、概念、理论与论证方面所引发的争辩也使其更具长久的魅力。

What explains the national economic success of the United States, Britain, Germany, and Japan? What can be learned from the long-term championship performances of leading business firms in each country? How important were specific innovations by individual entrepreneurs? And in the end, what is the true nature of capitalist development? The Pulitzer Prize winning historian Thomas K. McCraw and his co-authors present answers to these questions. The book explains, for a broad audience, the interconnections among technological innovation, management science, the power of entrepreneurship, and national economic growth. The authors approach each question from a comparative framework and with a triple focus on national economic systems, particular companies, and individual business leaders. Above all, the book focuses on how specific entrepreneurs influenced the economic success of their countries: Josiah Wedgwood and Henry Royce in Britain; August Thyssen and Georg von Siemens in Germany; Henry Ford, Alfred Sloan, and the two Thomas J. Watsons in the United States; Sakichi Toyoda, Masatoshi Ito, and Toshifumi Suzuki in Japan.

Revised and updated throughout, this brilliant survey of European financial history from the earliest times to the present by internationally renowned scholar and author Charles P. Kindleberger offers a comprehensive account of the evolution of money in Western Europe, bimetallism and the emergence of the gold standard, the banking systems of the Continent and the British Isles, and overviews of foreign investment, regional and global financial integration, and private and public finance in Western Europe. The new edition features expanded coverage of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and important new material on recent developments in European monetary integration.

Unequal Gains offers a radically new understanding of the economic evolution of the United States, providing a complete picture of the uneven progress of America from colonial times to today.
While other economic historians base their accounts on American wealth, Peter Lindert and Jeffrey Williamson focus instead on income--and the result is a bold reassessment of the American economic experience. America has been exceptional in its rising inequality after an egalitarian start, but not in its long-run growth.
America had already achieved world income leadership by 1700, not just in the twentieth century as is commonly thought. Long before independence, American colonists enjoyed higher living standards than Britain--and America's income advantage today is no greater than it was three hundred years ago. But that advantage was lost during the Revolution, lost again during the Civil War, and lost a third time during the Great Depression, though it was regained after each crisis. In addition, Lindert and Williamson show how income inequality among Americans rose steeply in two great waves--from 1774 to 1860 and from the 1970s to today--rising more than in any other wealthy nation in the world. Unequal Gains also demonstrates how the widening income gaps have always touched every social group, from the richest to the poorest. The book sheds critical light on the forces that shaped American income history, and situates that history in a broad global context.
Economic writing at its most stimulating, Unequal Gains provides a vitally needed perspective on who has benefited most from American growth, and why.

A Financial Times Book of the Year, 2015
An Economist Best Book of the Year, 2015
A Bloomberg Best Book of the Year, 2015
The finance sector of Western economies is too large and attracts too many of the smartest college graduates. Financialization over the past three decades has created a structure that lacks resilience and supports absurd volumes of trading. The finance sector devotes too little attention to the search for new investment opportunities and the stewardship of existing ones, and far too much to secondary-market dealing in existing assets. Regulation has contributed more to the problems than the solutions.
Why? What is finance for? John Kay, with wide practical and academic experience in the world of finance, understands the operation of the financial sector better than most. He believes in good banks and effective asset managers, but good banks and effective asset managers are not what he sees.
In a dazzling and revelatory tour of the financial world as it has emerged from the wreckage of the 2008 crisis, Kay does not flinch in his criticism: we do need some of the things that Citigroup and Goldman Sachs do, but we do not need Citigroup and Goldman to do them. And many of the things done by Citigroup and Goldman do not need to be done at all. The finance sector needs to be reminded of its primary purpose: to manage other people s money for the benefit of businesses and households. It is an aberration when the some of the finest mathematical and scientific minds are tasked with devising algorithms for the sole purpose of exploiting the weakness of other algorithms for computerized trading in securities. To travel further down that road leads to ruin.

本书主要内容包括：序论：政府行为与中央-地方关系、改革前的中央地方关系、财政包干的效应和后果、分税制改革及其影响等。