《知者:艾伦·格林斯潘的生涯》(The Man Who Knew: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan) https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4894870-1-1.html 本书荣获2016年《金融 时报》最佳商业图书(2016年度最佳商业图书出炉啦!冠军是。。。
)。从英雄到恶人,美联储前主席艾伦·格林斯潘是矛盾的综合体。本书试图回答「金融危机是否该怪格林斯潘」这个争议不断的问题。作者塞巴斯蒂安·马拉比是《经济学人》主编詹妮·明顿·贝多伊斯(Zanny Minton Beddoes)的先生,本书已经被评为《金融时报》年度书籍和麦肯锡年度商业书籍。
《美国经济增长的起伏:内战以来美国的生活水平》(The Rise and Fall of American Growth:The US Standard of Living since the Civil War) https://bbs.pinggu.org/bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4409234-1-1.html
美国经济为何在20世纪早期快速腾飞,这样的腾飞还会不会在短期内再次出现?在西北大学任教的美国经济学家罗伯特·高登对此做出分析。他对「网际网路革命的颠覆性」不以为然,并以美国经济史的例子对当前的发展作出评估。
《全球不平等:全球化时代的研究新途径》(Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalisation) https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4992803-1-1.html
关于不平等的成因,我们的知识少得惊人。来自纽约城市大学卢森堡收入研究中心的经济学家布兰科·米兰诺维奇在本书中提出了一个大胆而有趣的新理论。
《阿里巴巴:马云打造的豪宅》(Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built) https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4858535-1-1.html
作者是中国科技产业专家,从知情者的角度讲述了马云征服中国网际网路行业的历程。他认为马云「站在了中国新兴消费主义崇拜与企业家精神的十字路口」。和洛克菲勒一样,马云发现了技术和市场机会的汇合点。书中写到了促成阿里巴巴诞生的逸事,马云敏锐的判断出:全球化和中国数以亿计收入在上升的消费者加上零售业的局限,意味着中国电子商务前途无量。本书被《金融 时报》推荐(2016年度英国《金融 时报》最佳商业图书书单(附链接))。
《人体微生物的奥秘:我们体内的微生物和更宏大的生命视野》(I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life) https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4996495-1-1.html
作者艾德·杨是一位科普作家和博主,他将充满热情的自然主义眼光投向了人类与动物体内的细菌、病毒和其他超小型组织。读这本书,你会认识很多此前不曾了解的居住在你身体内部的坏蛋和英雄。
《病人HM:关于记忆、疯癫和家庭秘密的故事》(Patient HM: A Story of Memory, Madness, and Family Secrets)
被称为“神经科学史上最重要的病人”的癫痫患者H.M.先生在治疗过程中被外科医生摘除内侧颞叶,他丧失了大部分记忆,也成了科学史上的著名案例。本书对神经科学如何运作展开了精彩的分析,而作者的祖父正是当年引发争议的外科医生。
《玻璃宇宙:哈佛大学天文台的女性如何掌握了星球研究》(The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars) https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4996490-1-1.html
本书揭示了一段不为人知的历史,讲述一群女性研究者对天文学的贡献如何改变了我们对星球以及人类在宇宙中地位的理解。作者达娃·索贝尔曾多次获奖。
《黑风白雪》(Black Wind, White Snow: The Rise of Russia’s New Nationalism) https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4996527-1-1.html
A veteran Financial Times correspondent analyses what really motivates the regime in Moscow by tracing the rise of Eurasianism: the belief (crudely put) that Russia’s national identity is determined by ethnicity, geography and destiny.
《欧元和观念之战》(The Euro and the Battle of Ideas) 【国际政经系列】普林斯顿大学教授新书 The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
Three authors focus on France and Germany to tease out the clashing economic ideas that make up the euro project. The Germans like rules and discipline, and fret about excessive debt and the moral hazard created by bail-outs. The French prefer flexibility and discretion, and worry about the lack of a mutualised debt instrument. German policymakers are often lawyers, French ones more frequently economists. Not a happy marriage.
《乡巴佬的挽歌》Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4992938-1-1.html
Why so many people want to believe that Donald Trump will bring back manufacturing jobs and keep immigrants out. Possibly the most important recent book about America.
埃及人 The Egyptians: A Radical Story https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4999288-1-1.html
A refreshing account, by a young reporter on the Guardian, of the movement that overthrew Hosni Mubarak in 2011. What distinguishes his writing from others’ is his presence in the slums, factories and homes where Egyptians first began questioning their relations with their rulers. Mr Shenker evokes despair at the economy of this badly run country, but also surprising hope for its future, thanks to a young generation that says it is “no longer prepared to put up with the old crap”.
China’s Future https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4992886-1-1.html
No country has modernised its economy without also becoming a democracy. A respected American political scientist asks whether China can break the mould.
CEO, China https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4992906-1-1.html
What sort of leader is Xi Jinping? There are few political questions to which the answer will have greater bearing on people as this. By an expert British China-watcher.
China's Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay https://bbs.pinggu.org/thread-4992850-1-1.html
How decentralising the rights of control over state property, without clarifying the rules of ownership, offered those who rule China the greatest chance in history to grow rich, by a professor of government now based in California.