《风险不确定性与利润》讲述在20世纪的一百年中，经济学思想经历了三个交叠而又充满争论的阶段。第一阶段是由马歇尔集大成、并梳理为新古典主义经济学思想的“边际革命”阶段；第二阶段是“凯恩斯革命”，对新古典主义经济学自由放任原则产生怀疑的阶段；第三阶段出现在20世纪60年代末期，史称“新古典主义的反凯恩期革命”，这场革命实际上经过很长的酝酿，有很多支持者，其中最重要的人物就是《风险不确定性与利润》作者弗兰克·H·奈特。

本书考察了多种投票方法和在不同情况下出现的不同投票结果，重点讨论了阿罗的工作和人们并不总是根据简单的偏好进行投票的观点和投票人“扔掉选票”的现象和投票人如果得到某种回报就有可能违背自己偏好进行投票的行为。本书拓展了公共选择学派现有的理论思考，为该学派提供了开创新范式和改变现有研究重心的新平台。该书通过提出我们应该更加注意的领域来鼓励新的研究。本书对政治科学家以及对公共政策和政治经济学感兴趣的读者具有重要的意义。

书中阐述，商业和文化的未来不在于传统需求曲线上那个代表“畅销商品”（hits）的头部； 而是那条代表“冷门商品”（misses）经常为人遗忘的长尾。 举例来说， 一家大型书店通常可摆放10万本书，但亚马逊网络书店的图书销售额中，有四分之一来自排名10万以后的书籍。这些“冷门”书籍的销售比例正以高速成长，预估未来可占整体书市的一半。
这意味着消费者在面对无限的选择时，真正想要的东西、和想要取得的渠道都出现了重大的变化，一套崭新的商业模式也跟着崛起。
传统的市场曲线是符合80/20铁律的，为了抢夺那带来80% 利润的畅销品市场，我们厮杀得天昏地暗，但是我们所谓的热门商品正越来越名不副实，比如说黄金电视节目的收视率几十年来一直在萎缩，若放在1970年，现在的一档最佳节目恐怕连前10名之列都难以进入。简言之，尽管我们仍然对大热门着迷，但它们的经济力量已经今非昔比。那么，那些反复无常的消费者们已经转向了什么地方？答案并非唯一。他们散向了四面八方，因为市场已经分化成了无数不同的领域。互联网的出现改变了这种局面，使得99%的商品都有机会进行销售，市场曲线中那条长长的尾部（所谓的利基产品）也咸鱼翻身，成为我们可以寄予厚望的新的利润增长点。

《美国的逻辑:意识形态与内政外交》试图从文化政治的角度解析美国内政外交中的思维方式、行为方式以及利弊得失，对“美国模式”的历史发展脉络和未来发展前景，勉力做出了梳理，并鲜明地表达了自己的立场观点。
大国是否崛起，帝国是否衰落，读完此书，相信每位读者都会掩卷而长思，在《美国的逻辑》中找到镜鉴的思想印记。

作者是中国人，先到澳大利亚学英文，后到美国学政治学。因为要租房子，她接触了美国的家庭；因为做“babysistter”，她接了解了美国的孩子和他们的家教；因为读书，她领教了美国的校园政治；因为到了“汽车轮子上的国家”，她与汽车结缘；因为是学政治学的，她注意观察美国总统……她站在中国人的角度去观察美国、感受美国，于是她感受到潜移默化的美国爱国主义教育，感受到美国民众在总统大选中的态度，感受到与“强权”与“平等”的师生关系，感受到美国警察的“服务”，感受到美国总统的特征、权势和限制；最大的感受那就是美国人眼中的中国观，以及中国人要做到的“铁打的规矩要守、流水的习俗当随，不败的人格必葆”！

《怪诞行为学2:非理性的积极力量》编辑推荐：尝试用“非理性”的决策方式，彻底颠覆工作和生活中的“逻辑”，你将获得意想不到的成就感与幸福感！畅销书《怪诞行为学》作者卷土重来，掀起新一轮“非理性”狂潮。
《写给中国人的经济学》作者王福重、著名行为经济学家董志勇倾情作序。
诺贝尔经济学奖得主阿克尔洛夫、《免费》作者安德森高度评价。
《纽约时报》《哈佛商业评论》《波士顿环球报》等全球顶级媒体火热报道。

一部以全新的视角剖析当下生活的令人震撼之作。与托夫勒的《未来的冲击》和奈斯比特的《大趋势》相比，《小趋势》是21世纪初商业社会预言中最摩登的话题。
马克·佩恩通过可靠的信息和分析，让我们发现大量和直觉相违背的事实。社会不再是一个大熔炉，而是被分成了一个个有着不同喜好和生活方式的群体。那些人数不多却充满活力的新群体，正在社会发展中起着重大作用。书中列举了影响着未来社会发展的75个小群体的发展动向，那些貌似细微的发展正在决定着巨大的社会变革。这将彻底改变你观察从现在到未来的视角，并由此发现你的处境在现在与未来之间会有怎样的改变。
马克·佩恩认为当今世界最大的趋势就是这些小趋势，他告诉读者如何去观察那些小群体的发展，它们能改变一个企业的命运，也可以对一场选举胜负起决定性作用，它们还可能煽起一场运动，或者改变你个人的生活。在当今的社会中，小群体有大作用。“小”决定着“大”。

詹姆斯·洛温发现，美国课堂上使用的教科书都充斥着错误的信息和短视的见解。本书针对这一现象写作而成，它改变了我们与美国历史的关系。在书中，洛温详细剖析了美国现行的历史教科书，并对教科书中的谎言进行了细致入微的分析，展示了历史的生动性与复杂性。
他从前哥伦布时代着笔，涉猎重建、海伦·凯勒、第一个感恩节、梅莱大屠杀等多种人物与事件，对现有的教科书提出了令人大开眼界的批评，对美国历史进行了令人着迷的重述，指出了美国历史应该如何以及能够如何向美国学生讲授。他指出爱国主义是谎言的主要温床，为了宣扬爱国主义，美国中学历史教科书不惜“肢解”历史，英雄化历史人物，如哥伦布、杰斐逊、帕特里克·亨利、海伦·凯勒、威尔逊、林肯，等等。洛温痛心地指出，爱国主义无助于培养学生的独立思考能力。
在这本修订版中，洛温进一步考察了初版《老师的谎言》问世之后出版的6本中学历史教科书。他以一种独特的手法，为每章添加了新的素材，指出了这些新版教科书哪些地方更为正确，哪些地方仍有严重的错误，哪些地方反而变得更遭了。修订版中，洛温还增加了一章，分析教科书如何对待2001年恐怖袭击以及伊拉克战争。

Winner of the 1996 American Book Award and the Oliver Cromwell Cox Award for Distinguished Anti-Racist Scholarship
Americans have lost touch with their history, and in this thought-provoking book, Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying twelve leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history interesting or memorable. Marred by an embarrassing combination of blind patriotism, mindless optimism, sheer misinformation, and outright lies, these books omit almost all the ambiguity, passion, conflict, and drama from our past. In ten powerful chapters, Loewen reveals that:
The United States dropped three times as many tons of explosives in Vietman as it dropped in all theaters of World War II, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ponce de Leon went to Florida mainly to capture Native Americans as slaves for Hispaniola, not to find the mythical fountain of youth
Woodrow Wilson, known as a progressive leader, was in fact a white supremacist who personally vetoed a clause on racial equality in the Covenant of the League of Nations
The first colony to legalize slavery was not Virginia but Massachusetts
From the truth about Columbus's historic voyages to an honest evaluation of our national leaders, Loewen revives our history, restoring to it the vitality and relevance it truly possesses.

一本来自逻辑诡辩学的奇人--雷蒙德·斯穆里安的奇书。说它是诡辩书很恰当，说它是脑力训练题集也可以，说它是笑话集也不为过。不过，事实上支撑起这座逻辑迷宫的可是鼎鼎大名的哥德尔不完全性定理，所以就能理解它同时是被用作逻辑学经典教材的一本逻辑题集。
斯穆里安除拥有普林斯顿大学博士学位外，他还是一位魔术师和钢琴家。
幽默老辣的译笔，来自康宏逵。如果读者愿意花80美元去淘到此书的第1版英语本，或者你会同意康氏的中文译本更精彩，当然《这本书叫什么？》已经风靡世界，有意大利文版、德文版和日文版。

A sense of certainty and unhesitating confidence is rare in the contemporary world. An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and if we are honest about it then most of us will admit that we waver in the face of them. Dreyfus and Kelly examine some of the greatest books in the Western Canon to explain that the burden of choice is essentially a modern problem to which there is an age old solution. Dreyfus and Kelly explain the huge jump from Homer's polytheistic world to the monotheistic one in which Dante wrote his Divine Comedy and Martin Luther wrote his ninety-five theses. They then take the reader forward to the rejection of this Christian ideal, to the Superman of Nietzsche and further onto the spiritual cornucopia of Herman Melville's Moby Dick. Arriving at the ennui and emptiness that pervades our modern world in which the work of Elizabeth Gilbert and David Foster Wallace arose, Dreyfus and Kelly offer a new-and very old-way to embrace the world, a fresh way to live a meaningful life in a secular world

An unrelenting flow of choices confronts us at nearly every moment of our lives, and yet our culture offers us nothing on the basis of which to choose. This predicament seems inevitable, but in fact it’s quite new. In medieval Europe God’s calling was a grounding force. In ancient Greece, a whole pantheon of shining gods stood ready to draw an appropriate action out of you. Like an athlete in “the zone,” you were called to a harmonious attunement with the world, so absorbed in it that you couldn’t make
a “wrong” choice. If our culture no longer takes for granted a belief in God, can we nevertheless get in touch with the Homeric moods of wonder and gratitude, and be guided the meanings they reveal? ALL THINGS SHINING claims we can.
Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance Kelly illuminate some of the greatest works of the West to reveal how we have lost our passionate engagement with and responsiveness to the world. Their journey takes us from the wonder and openness of Homer’s polytheism to the monotheism of Dante; from the autonomy of Kant to the multiple worlds of Melville; and finally to the spiritual difficulties evoked by modern authors such as David Foster Wallace and Elizabeth Gilbert. This book will change the way we understand our culture, our history, our sacred practices, and ourselves. It offers a new--and very old—way to celebrate and be grateful for our existence in the modern world.
Dreyfus, a philosophy at Berkeley for forty years, is an original thinker who finds in the classic texts of our culture a new relevance for people’s everyday lives. His lively, thought-provoking lectures have earned him a podcast audience that often reaches the top 40 on iTunesU. Kelly, chair of the philosophy department at Harvard, is an eloquent new voice. His sensitivity to the sadness of the culture – and to what remains of the wonder and gratitude that could chase it away – will capture a generation adrift.
Re-envisioning modern spiritual life through their examination of literature, philosophy, and religious testimony, Dreyfus and Kelly unearth ancient sources of meaning, and teach us how to rediscover the sacred, shining things that surround us every day.
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http://books.simonandschuster.com/All-Things-Shining/Hubert-Dreyfus/9781416596158

'Every now and then a book appears which is literally ahead of its time ...The Political Unconscious is such a book ...it sets new standards of what a classic work is.' - Slavoj Zizek In this ground-breaking and influential study, Fredric Jameson explores the complex place and function of literature within culture. A landmark publication, The Political Unconscious takes its place as one of the most meaningful works of the twentieth century. First published: 1983.

这本书较全面地介绍了战后美国研究中国近代史的方法、成果与趋向。全书共四章先后着重讨论了近代中国在政治、思想、经济与社会等方面的发展，涉及的美国当代史家、学者一百二十余人，对其中的代表人物进行了详细评介。

这本书提出了两个重要概念：不确定性和信息。不确定性是指特定情景下各种事件发生的可能性。不确定性促使决策者具体地收集信息。当个体面临多种不确定性的选择方案时，信息往往起着重要的作用。

《稳定不稳定的经济:一种金融不稳定视角》内容简介：经济学家们将此次金融危机定位为二战以来最具破坏性的金融危机，它肆无忌惮地吞噬着人类的财富。对于危机的成因，人们多将矛头指向诸如华尔街的鼓噪、格林斯潘长期积极货币政策造成的流动性泛滥以及风险意识逐渐淡漠等，然而这些都不足以令人信服。美国经济学家明斯基对此早有鞭辟入里的分析和精准的预测。
明斯基是一位非主流经济学家，他早年研读过马克思的相关理论，对当今的经济秩序秉持批判态度。在《稳定不稳定的经济:一种金融不稳定视角》中，他对金融体系的内在不稳定性导致经济周期波动的动态过程进行了很好的刻画，深入分析了经济泡沫发生的一般模型，经济泡沫由开始到最后破裂大致可分为五个时期：正向冲击(displacement)、乐观的繁荣(boom)、非理性疯狂(euphoria)、获利抛售(profit-taking)及大恐慌(panic)。明斯基认为长期的快速增长、低通胀、低利率和宏观经济稳定会滋生出自满情绪和更强的承担风险的意愿。
稳定必将带来不稳定!

The Go-Go Years "The Go-Go Years is not to be read in the usual manner of Wall Street classics. You do not read this book to see our present situation reenacted in the past, with only the names changed. You read it because it is a wonderful description of the way things were in a different time and place." -From the Foreword by Michael Lewis The Go-Go Years is the harrowing and humorous story of the growth stocks of the 1960s and how their meteoric rise caused a multitude of small investors to thrive until the devastating market crashes in the 1970s. It was a time when greed drove the market and fast money was being made and lost as the "go-go" stocks surged and plunged. Included are the stories of such high-profile personalities as H. Ross Perot who lost $450 million in one day, Saul Steinberg's attempt to take over Chemical Bank, and the fall of America's "Last Gatsby, " Eddie Gilbert. Praise for The Go-Go Years "Those for whom the stock market is mostly a spectator sport will relish the book's verve, color, and memorable one-liners." -New York Review of Books "Please don't take The Go-Go Years too much for granted: as effortlessly as it seems to fly, it is nonetheless an unusually complex and thoughtful work of social history." -New York Times "Brooks's great contribution is his synthesis of all the elements that made the 1960s the most volatile in Wall Street history . and making so much material easily digestible for the uninitiated." -Publishers Weekly "Brooks . is about the only writer around who combines a thorough knowledge of finance with the ability to perceive behind the dance of numbers 'high, pure, moral melodrama on the themes of possession, domination, and belonging.'" -Time

When Linda Babcock asked why so many male graduate students were teaching their own courses and most female students were assigned as assistants, her dean said: "More men ask. The women just don't ask." It turns out that whether they want higher salaries or more help at home, women often find it hard to ask. Sometimes they don't know that change is possible--they don't know that they can ask. Sometimes they fear that asking may damage a relationship. And sometimes they don't ask because they've learned that society can react badly to women asserting their own needs and desires. By looking at the barriers holding women back and the social forces constraining them, "Women Don't Ask" shows women how to reframe their interactions and more accurately evaluate their opportunities. It teaches them how to ask for what they want in ways that feel comfortable and possible, taking into account the impact of asking on their relationships. And it teaches all of us how to recognize the ways in which our institutions, child-rearing practices, and unspoken assumptions perpetuate inequalities--inequalities that are not only fundamentally unfair but also inefficient and economically unsound. With women's progress toward full economic and social equality stalled, women's lives becoming increasingly complex, and the structures of businesses changing, the ability to negotiate is no longer a luxury but a necessity. Drawing on research in psychology, sociology, economics, and organizational behavior as well as dozens of interviews with men and women from all walks of life, "Women Don't Ask" is the first book to identify the dramatic difference between men and women in their propensity to negotiate for what they want. It tells women how to ask, and why they should.

“深刻阐释男性和女性谈判方式差异的第一本书”
为什么女性从来不要求？她们不要求加薪，不要求升职，总是远离可能造成的谈判气氛。从对孩提时代的玩具娃娃和游戏规则，到成年后的焦虑和障碍的研究中，著名经济学博士琳达•巴布科克和她的合作者首次发现，性别差异导致的行为模式是女性不愿提出要求和谈判的根本原因。本书大量的亲身访谈和相关研究成果，为我们一一揭示了女性在职场和生活中的心理及行为特征，以及女性与男性行为模式的种种差别。在对性别差异的精彩分析中，作者为女性改变自身思考方式，赢得谈判提出了绝对实用的建议。读完本书，相信女性读者会重新认识到谈判的力量，在谈判中发掘身边的机遇，最终改变自己的职业和生活状态！

In a series of disarmingly simple arguments financial market analyst George Cooper challenges the core principles of today's economic orthodoxy and explains how we have created an economy that is inherently unstable and crisis prone. With great skill, he examines the very foundations of today's economic philosophy and adds a compelling analysis of the forces behind economic crisis. His goal is nothing less than preventing the seemingly endless procession of damaging boom-bust cycles, unsustainable economic bubbles, crippling credit crunches, and debilitating inflation. His direct, conscientious, and honest approach will captivate any reader and is an invaluable aid in understanding today's economy.