"Let China sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world." Napoleon's words seem eerily prescient today, as the shock waves from China's awakening reverberate across the globe. In China Shakes the World, the former China bureau chief of the Financial Times, James Kynge, traces these tremors from Beijing to Europe to the Midwest as China's ravenous hunger for jobs, raw materials, energy, and food -- and its export of goods, workers, and investments -- drastically reshape world trade and politics.
Delving beyond mere recitation of by-now-familiar statistics, Kynge's on-the-ground reporting provides alternative explanations for China's explosive transformation, revealing many of the usual reasons given for its growth to be myths. Most important for the future, he details China's deep, systemic weaknesses -- rampant fraud, crippling environmental crises, a corrupt banking system, faltering government institutions, a rapidly aging population -- that threaten even greater global disruptions. And he demonstrates the profound consequences of those weaknesses for American manufacturers, oil companies, banks, and ordinary consumers.
Through dramatic stories of entrepreneurs and visionaries, factory workers and store clerks at the heart of this global phenomenon, China Shakes the World explains how China's breakneck rise occurred, the extraordinary problems the country now faces, and the consequences of both for the twenty-first century.

In 1953, South Korea was rated by the U.N. as the poorest country in the world. Five decades later, it is the fifteenth largest economy. Now, South Korea's decisions on how to manage its society and its role as a modern democracy while also establishing its policy regarding reunification with North Korea will determine where the country will go in the next fifty years. "The New Korea" examines the political, economic, industrial, and societal aspects of Korea today. Will it continue to enjoy an economic boom through new industries while competing against low-wage countries like China and India? Will it return to its role as a stomping ground for other powers? And what should Westerners pay attention to in terms of investment and business opportunities? As South Korea enters the most critical phase of its journey, it is crucial that we understand the factors involving its decisions and evolution. "The New Korea" is a fascinating account of what is and may become the state of this important region.

What turns rich nations into great powers? How do wealthy countries begin extending their influence abroad? These questions are vital to understanding one of the most important sources of instability in international politics: the emergence of a new power. In "From Wealth to Power", Fareed Zakaria seeks to answer these questions by examining the most puzzling case of a rising power in modern history - that of the United States. If rich nations routinely become great powers, Zakaria asks, then how do we explain the strange inactivity of the United States in the late nineteenth century? By 1885, the U.S. was the richest country in the world. And yet, by all military, political, and diplomatic measures, it was a minor power. To explain this discrepancy, Zakaria considers a wide variety of cases between 1865 and 1908 when the U.S. considered expanding its influence in such diverse places as Canada, the Dominican Republic, and Iceland. Consistent with the realist theory of international relations, he argues that the President and his administration tried to increase the country's political influence abroad when they saw an increase in the nation's relative economic power. But they frequently had to curtail their plans for expansion, he shows, because they lacked a strong central government that could harness that economic power for the purposes of foreign policy. America was an unusual power - a strong nation with a weak state. It was not until late in the century, when power shifted from states to the federal government and from the legislative to the executive branch, that leaders in Washington could mobilize the nation's resources for international influence. Zakaria's exploration of this tension between national power and state structure will change how we view the emergence of new powers and deepen our understanding of America's exceptional history.

After World War II a select number of countries outside Japan and the West - those that Alice Amsden calls "the rest" - gained market share in modern industries and altered global competition. By 2000, a great divide had developed within "the rest", the lines drawn according to prewar manufacturing experience and equality in income distribution. China, India, Korea and Taiwan had built their own national manufacturing enterprises that were investing heavily in R&D. Their developmental states had transformed themselves into champions of science and technology. By contrast, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico had experienced a wave of acquisitions and mergers that left even more of their leading enterprises controlled by multinational firms. The developmental states of Mexico and Turkey had become hand-tied by membership in NAFTA and the European Union. Which model of late industrialization will prevail, the "independent" or the "integrationist," is a question that challenges the twenty-first century.

For more than ten years, John Steele Gordon has written the widely read "The Business of America" column in "American Heritage" magazine. Marked by a combination of erudition, wit, and eloquence, Gordon's stories have celebrated the high points, and occasional low points, in the history of business in this country, from colonial days to the present. Now, the best of his mini-histories have been gathered in one volume. As much as each stands on its own, together they gain in significance as they go beyond mere business to present an intriguing lens on the broad sweep of American history. Gordon deftly connects the past with the present as he compares Frederick Philipse's successful cornering of the wampum market in 1666 with the Hunt brothers' failed attempt to corner the silver market in 1979. He looks anew at famous industrialists like Cornelius Vanderbilt and Henry Ford, and uncovers little-remembered heroes such as Oliver Evans, the founding father of the American industrial revolution, and Samuel Slater, who launched the textile industry in this country. He revels alike in the stories of philanthropist Peter Cooper, inventor Alexander Graham Bell, and the father of television syndication, Desi Arnaz. Gordon reveals how broad trends have developed (government debt and inflation, for example) and how specific words (boondoggle, pork barrel) have entered our language. He even tells the story of America's greatest cheese, Liederkranz, now lost forever. In addition to being a superb historian, John Steele Gordon is a great storyteller. Surveying almost 400 years of enterprise on this continent, "The Business of America" makes invaluable connections between eras and allows us a new appreciation of the richness of the American story.

本书最早曾连载于1976年3月1日至11月9日《日本经济新闻》，题为《经济 · 昭和的演变》，正式出版时，又增添了一些内容。

Digital Labor calls on the reader to examine the shifting sites of labor markets to the Internet through the lens of their political, technological, and historical making. Internet users currently create most of the content that makes up the web: they search, link, tweet, and post updates-leaving their "deep" data exposed. Meanwhile, governments listen in, and big corporations track, analyze, and predict users' interests and habits. This unique collection of essays provides a wide-ranging account of the dark side of the Internet. It claims that the divide between leisure time and work has vanished so that every aspect of life drives the digital economy. The book reveals the anatomy of playbor (play/labor), the lure of exploitation and the potential for empowerment. Ultimately, the 14 thought-provoking chapters in this volume ask how users can politicize their troubled complicity, create public alternatives to the centralized social web, and thrive online. Contributors: Mark Andrejevic, Ayhan Aytes, Michel Bauwens, Jonathan Beller, Patricia Ticineto Clough, Sean Cubitt, Jodi Dean, Abigail De Kosnik, Julian Dibbell, Christian Fuchs, Lisa Nakamura, Andrew Ross, Ned Rossiter, Trebor Scholz, Tizania Terranova, McKenzie Wark, and Soenke Zehle

在中央提出科学发展观和建立和谐社会的今天，认真回顾和总结了50多年来所制定的十个五年计划和实施国民经济宏观管理方面的经验教训，对于完善我国社会主义市场经济理论和体制，都是一件意义十分重大的工作。
——刘国光（首届中国经济学杰出贡献奖获得者、中国社会科学院特邀顾问）
从上个世纪50年代初期制定与实施第一个五年计划至今，我国在半个多世纪中已经制定和实施了十个五年计划。认真回顾和总结制定五年计划以及实施国民经济宏观管理方面的教育，对于完善中国社会主义市场经济理论和体制，是一件意义重大的工作。
我国制定与实施五年计划的历史，可以1978年的中共十一届三中全会为标志，大致划分为改革开放前、改革开放后两个时期。与此相应，第一至第五个五年计划，是处于计划经济时期，而第六至第十个五年计划，则是处于转轨的和市场经济时期。研究和叙述这十个五年计划，自然也反映了这两个时期的特征。
本书从大量第一手资料入手，在深入研究的基础上，用了三年多时间完成书稿。但是，由于这50多年是中国经济、社会以空前规模发展和转型时期，中国经历了社会主义计划经济和向社会主义市场经济的过渡，其间经济体制变动之剧烈、经济增长速度之快、人口由传统农业向非农产业转移规模之庞大，工业化、现代化步伐之大，都是中国历史上空前的，在世界历史上也是罕见的；其中有些问题是我们眼界和能力难以准确把握的；有些问题由于发生不久，时间离的较近，也不容易看清楚。

The most significant conquest of the twentieth century may well have been the triumph of American consumer society over Europe's bourgeois civilization. It is this little-understood but world-shaking campaign that unfolds in Irresistible Empire, Victoria de Grazia's brilliant account of how the American standard of living defeated the European way of life and achieved the global cultural hegemony that is both its great strength and its key weakness today. </p>
De Grazia describes how, as America's market empire advanced with confidence through Europe, spreading consumer-oriented capitalism, all alternative strategies fell before it--first the bourgeois lifestyle, then the Third Reich's command consumption, and finally the grand experiment of Soviet-style socialist planning. Tracing the peculiar alliance that arrayed New World salesmanship, statecraft, and standardized goods against the Old World's values of status, craft, and good taste, Victoria de Grazia follows the United States' market-driven imperialism through a vivid series of cross-Atlantic incursions by the great inventions of American consumer society. We see Rotarians from Duluth in the company of the high bourgeoisie of Dresden; working-class spectators in ramshackle French theaters conversing with Garbo and Bogart; Stetson-hatted entrepreneurs from Kansas in the midst of fussy Milanese shoppers; and, against the backdrop of Rome's Spanish Steps and Paris's Opera Comique, Fast Food in a showdown with advocates for Slow Food. Demonstrating the intricacies of America's advance, de Grazia offers an intimate and historical dimension to debates over America's exercise of soft power and the process known as Americanization. She raises provocative questions about the quality of the good life, democracy, and peace that issue from the vaunted victory of mass consumer culture. </p>

《朱镕基讲话实录》收入了朱镕基担任国务院副总理、国务院总理期间的重要讲话、谈话、文章、信件、批语等348篇，照片272幅，批语、书信及题词影印件30件，编入《实录》的文稿，是根据朱镕基同志出席重要会议和到地方、部门考察调研讲话的音像资料、文字记录稿编辑而成，绝大部分是第一次公开发表。
这些讲话、谈话、文章等从各个方面翔实记录了朱镕基领导中国经济的历程，内容涉及中国财税体制改革、金融体制改革、国有企业改革、社会保障体制改革、投融资体制改革、住房制度改革、应对亚洲金融危机冲击、治理通货膨胀等经济社会各领域重大问题。
朱镕基同志担任国务院副总理和国务院总理期间，适逢我国从计划经济体制向社会主义市场经济体制转变的关键时期。在党中央、国务院领导下，朱镕基同志直接主持了财税体制改革、金融体制改革、价格与流通体制改革、国有企业改革、政府机构改革、社会保障体制改革、住房制度改革、投融资体制改革等一系列重大改革，初步建立了社会主义市场经济体制的框架。也正是在这个时期，我国有效治理严重的通货膨胀，实现了经济“软着陆”；成功应对亚洲金融危机的冲击，扭转了通货紧缩趋势，保持了经济稳定、快速增长。《实录》翔实反映了朱镕基同志在中国改革和发展中的工作历程，内容丰富，语言生动，图文并茂，可读性强。本书不仅是读者深入了解朱镕基经济社会管理思想、领导风格、个人魅力和心路历程最全面的读本，也是读者回顾和解读中国经济发展历程和基本规律的一部丰富史料。
《朱镕基讲话实录》的出版发行，对于了解20世纪90年代至21世纪初我国改革开放和经济、社会发展的进程，进一步推进中国特色社会主义伟大事业，具有重要意义。
《朱镕基讲话实录》的独有特色：
（1）极强的真实性。
（2）“朱氏风格”的可读性。收录篇目多为朱镕基即席讲话的实录，反映出深刻、简单、直接的“朱氏风格”，有编辑称是继《毛泽东选集》之后最为好读的领导人著作之一。
（3）宝贵的史料价值。是中国经济走出困境、发展壮大历程的权威总结。
（4）全面反映朱镕基经济思想和心路历程。
（5）全面透露高层领导处理国家和个人事务的真实状况。
（6）全面展示朱镕基直面问题的勇者作风。
（7）全面揭示朱镕基抓住主要矛盾解决复杂问题的高超艺术。
（8）全面刻画朱镕基有血有肉的总理形象。

外国商人，晚清时称之为洋商。洋商在上海的贸易活动，远可追溯至唐天宝十年（公元751年），即使从清道光二十三年（1843年）上海开埠算起，他们在上海的贸易活动也长达160余年；其历史可谓源远流长。但由于解放后几十年我国对外经济贸易没有提到应有的地位，导致对洋商研究很冷落，不但研究者寥寥，研究成果也不多。
20世纪90年代，随着国家对外开放的不断发展和加入世贸组织，对外经济贸易在国民经济中的地位越来越重要。因之在经济、金融、贸易领域，与外商来往频繁，开始引起了研究者的关注，并把对洋商的研究提升为重要课题。
“以史为鉴，可以知得失。”系统、深入地研究上海开埠以来的涉外经济史，可以为推进上海对外开放，进一步发展上海的外向型经济，起到很好的借鉴作用。为此我们从2002年开始编写本书，历时六年，于2007年定稿付梓。全书约100万字，分9篇37章141节（另附录3篇），插图150幅，附表142份，较完整地勾画了上海洋商百年的发展轨迹。
《洋商史》系在我主持编写的《上海对外经济贸易志》过程中，积累3000余万字的资料，2100幅历史图照的基础上，又从外贸系统搜集了大量的中外文洋商史料，本书的编撰工作可谓集众人之智慧。《洋商史》所描述的从上海洋商企业的起源到上海解放后洋商企业的逐渐消失；从上海洋商开设进出口贸易洋行起始，发展到创办涵盖各行各业的工业、商业、航运业、公共事业、文化事业；其时间跨度之长，洋商企业行业之齐全，内容之系统、全面，资料之翔实，图片之稀有，可以说是弥足珍贵。上海是近代中国的窗口，在与洋商的交往中，是中国的缩影，从这个意义上讲，本书是中国第一部完整的洋商史。它的问世，我想对中国对外贸易史、中国近代史，以及外交史的研究，都是有所裨益的。

Claude Markovits' book charts the development of two merchant communities in the province of Sind from the precolonial period, through colonial conquest and up to indepedence. Based on previously neglected archival sources, it describes how the communities came to control trading networks throughout the world, throwing light on the nature of these diasporas from South Asia in their interaction with the global economy. This is a sophisticated and accessible book that will appeal to students of South Asia, as well as to colonial historians and economic historians.

Does Japan really matter anymore? The challenges of recent Japanese history have led some pundits and scholars to publicly wonder whether Japan's significance is starting to wane. The multidisciplinary essays that comprise Japan Since 1945 demonstrate its ongoing importance and relevance. Examining the historical context to the social, cultural, and political underpinnings of Japan's postwar development, the contributors re-engage earlier discourses and introduce new veins of research.
Japan Since 1945 provides a much needed update to existing scholarly work on the history of contemporary Japan. It moves beyond the 'lost decade' and 'terrible devastation' frameworks that have thus far defined too much of the discussion, offering a more nuanced picture of the nation's postwar development.