A vivid, blistering memoir that takes readers inside the high-stakes drama and hubris of the trading floor, a rags-to-riches tale of Citibank’s one-time most profitable trader, and why he gave it all up—a Liar’s Poker for a new generation
 
“If you were gonna rob a bank, and you saw the vault door there, left open, what would you do? Would you wait around?”
 
Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken soccer balls on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf, Gary Stevenson dreamed of something bigger. And he was good at numbers.
 
At the London School of Economics, Gary, wearing tracksuits and sneakers, shocked his posh classmates by winning a competition called “The Trading Game.” The a golden ticket to a new life, as the youngest trader at Citibank. A place where you could make more money than you’d ever imagined. Where your colleagues are dysfunctional geniuses and insecure bullies, yet they start to feel like family. Where against the odds you become the bank’s most profitable trader, closing deals worth nearly a trillion dollars. A day . Soon you are dreaming of numbers in your sleep—and then you stop sleeping at all.
 
What happens when winning starts to feel like losing? It’s 2008 and now you have a front-row seat to the global financial crisis. A time when the easiest way to make money is to bet on millions becoming poorer—like the very people you grew up with. The economy is slipping off a precipice, and your own sanity starts slipping with it. You want to stop, but you can’t. Because nobody ever leaves .
 
Would you stick, or quit? Even if it meant risking everything?
 
This is an outrageous, unvarnished, white-knuckle journey to the dark heart of an intoxicating world—from someone who survived the game and then blew it all wide open.

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'Pitch perfect, fast-moving, brilliantly well-judged'
ADAM TOOZE

'A terrific achievement, covering clearly but with subtlety everything from the spinning jenny to Covid-19'
ADITYA CHAKRABORTTY, GUARDIAN

'Outstanding! Written in a chatty way but contains a remarkable depth and intelligence'
MATTHEW SYED

The UK is, at the same time, both one of the world's most successful economies and one of Europe's laggards. The country contains some of Western Europe's richest areas such as the south east of England, but also some of its poorest such as the north east or Wales. Looking into the past helps understand why.

The debates about the balance between economic openness and sovereignty that re-emerged after Brexit would have been familiar to Peel and Cobden in the 1840s. The size of the government's deficit has dominated politics since 2010 but fretting about the scale of the national debt was almost a national pastime during Victoria's reign. Supposedly modern concerns about the impacts of new technology on jobs and inequality date back to at least Captain Swing and Ned Ludd. As the economy emerges from the Covid-19 recession and sets out on a new post-Brexit future an understanding of the past is vital to seeing how the future might play out.

Two Hundred Years of Muddling Through tells the story of how Britain's economy and politics have interacted with each other from the time of the Industrial Revolution right up to the pandemic of 2020.

本书成书于20世纪90年代初，执笔者是厉以宁教授和他的三位学生：孟晓苏（第一章）、李源潮（第五章）、李克强（第七章），他们对中国既往的改革成果进行了分析总结，对未来的经济发展进行了预测展望。

“在成功的经济体中，经济政策一定是务实的，不是意识形态化的。是具体的，不是抽象的。”
直面真问题、深究真逻辑的复旦大学经济学“毕业课”
☆ 连接抽象经济学理论与中国发展实际
在市场机制不完善的情况下，如何实现可行的动员与资源调配，推动经济增长？
在确保增长的过程中，如 何获得更多资源和时间去建设和完善市场经济？
☆ 结合学界前沿研究与一线调研经历
扼要论述+延伸阅读指引，满足弹性认知需求
生动解说光伏、面板等行业案例，清晰复盘宽窄巷子、华夏幸福等建设经验
☆ 微观机制+宏观现象 双重维度串联中国经济生活中中知识与现象的碎片
理解地方政府经济治理的决策与行动逻辑
解读城市化、房价、贫富差距、债务、国内外贸易生态等现象背后各种要素的联动
☆ 从热闹的政经新闻中看出门道，从枯燥的政府文件中觉察到机会。
“了解政府认为应该怎么办，比了解‘我’认为应该怎么办，重要得多。”
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本书是是兰小欢多年教学、调研与研究内容的凝练，将经济学原理与中国经济发展的实践有机融合，以地方政府投融资为主线，深入浅出地论述了中国经济的发展，笔触简练客观，并广泛采纳了各领域学者的最新研究成果。全书分上下两篇。上篇解释微观机制，包括地方政府的基本事务、收支、土地融资和开发、投资和债务等；下篇解释这些微观行为与宏观现象的联系，包括城市化和工业化、房价、地区差异、债务风险、国内经济结构失衡、国际贸易冲突等。最后一章提炼和总结全书内容。
通过对中国政治经济体系的论述，作者简明地刻画了地方政府进行经济治理的基本方式，并指出，中国政府通过深度介入工业化和城市化的进程，在发展经济的同时逐步推动了市场机制的建立和完善，以一种有别于所谓发达国家经验的方式实现了经济奇迹。基于对改革历程与社会矛盾的回顾与分析，作者也在书中对当前推进的市场化改革与政府转型进行了解读，帮助读者增进对中国发展现实的把握。

《券证遗珍——天津市档案馆藏清代商务文书图录》所选图片，均为天津市档案馆馆藏清代档案之精品，无论内容还是形式，都反映了天津当时的经济社会发展印迹，颇具人文、地域之特色，是较为珍贵的历史财富。
《券证遗珍——天津市档案馆藏清代商务文书图录》的出版面世，为天津市档案馆藏价值的体现提供了很好的机会。本书课题组按照国家史编纂委员会的编撰编求，遴选馆藏资料并加以整整编排，特别对相关图片涉及的内容、出处进行了认真考证、核实，并对其内容说明作了反复斟酌、推敲。本书所选档案，集中出自“商会”、“海关”及“邮政”三类全宗。

Review
Lucid and comprehensive, Jackson's book elegantly synthesizes several important strands of network science from sociology, physics, mathematics, computer science, and economics. It will be an immensely useful reference for researchers and students alike.
(Duncan Watts, Columbia University )
Product Description
Networks of relationships help determine the careers that people choose, the jobs they obtain, the products they buy, and how they vote. The many aspects of our lives that are governed by social networks make it critical to understand how they impact behavior, which network structures are likely to emerge in a society, and why we organize ourselves as we do. In Social and Economic Networks, Matthew Jackson offers a comprehensive introduction to social and economic networks, drawing on the latest findings in economics, sociology, computer science, physics, and mathematics. He provides empirical background on networks and the regularities that they exhibit, and discusses random graph-based models and strategic models of network formation. He helps readers to understand behavior in networked societies, with a detailed analysis of learning and diffusion in networks, decision making by individuals who are influenced by their social neighbors, game theory and markets on networks, and a host of related subjects. Jackson also describes the varied statistical and modeling techniques used to analyze social networks. Each chapter includes exercises to aid students in their analysis of how networks function.
This book is an indispensable resource for students and researchers in economics, mathematics, physics, sociology, and business.

经济数学方法与模型是经济类、管理类院校教学的基础课，许多院校的教学计划中教设有数学建模、金融建模等课程。
目前经济数学方法的教程很多，这些教程大都有这样的特点：虽然名为经济数学方法，但实际上主要是数学体系的阐述，与经济建模没有很大的联系，形式上则是数学公式和符号的直接运用，却简单地认为是数学在经济上的应用了。因此，学生即使学完这些教材，也很难熟练地应用到经济理论和实践中去。
作为在教学第一线从事数学方法、数学建模教学工作多年的教师，从本科的数学建模课程，以及研究生和博士生的数学方法课程中，我们发现经济研究中很需要数学方法的支撑，但目前已有教学参考书，不适应经济类、管理类院校的教学需要。在多年的教学实践中，我们积累了一些经验，取得了较好的教学效果。现将我们的讲义整理出来，献给我们的学生，献给和我们一样探索的同行们。
本书结合我们多年的教学经验，根据财经类专业的特点，以经济学中涉及的数学方法为主线，以经济学中数学方法应用的经典范例为模型，详尽归纳不同的数学方法在经济领域的使用情况，是一本适合财经类学生学习的理论与实践相结合的教材。

《国际经济学原理》利用现代经济分析方法，将复杂的金融体系解析得条理有致、主次分明、清楚易懂，从而有助于读者把握国际金融的本质和主动规律，把握国际经济学中的核心问题，为实务操作和深入研究打下深厚基础。文字上注重专业性与通俗性相结合。《国际经济学原理》力求做到理论、政策和制度的相互融合与渗透，避免相互割裂、反映国际经济的系统性。逻辑上以基本理论、基本知识和基本规律为主线，以历史和逻辑的线索将古今中外的国际经济活动及其运行发展规律融为一体。在基本原理、内在联系和客观规律等方面保持相对稳定性；吸纳学科发展的最新研究成果，以确保本教材的领先性。本教材可作为国际经济专业本科高年级学生学习国际经济学课程的教材，也可以作为国际经济专业低年级硕士研究生相应课程的教材。此外，对于任何想在国际经济学知识领域有所收获与进步的经济类高年级本科生、低年级硕士生以及那些已经走出大学校门，正在从事国际经济活动的实际工作者来说，也可通过阅读本教程而受益。《国际经济学原理》对于国际贸易和国际货币金融领域的新成果、新动态、新方法的把握，通俗而严谨。例如。基于REDUX模型的新开放经济的分析框架的归纳，有助于读者准确理解本学科的研究方向。本教程理论分析透彻，逻辑性强，涉及内容广泛。