The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisd...(展开全部)

Review White House Budget Director Peter Orszag is a numbers guy, a propeller head as President Obama would say. But as David Von Drehle and I write in this week's print version of Time, Orszag has been spending his time recently reading not about spreadsheets, but about psychology. In particular, he has been reading a new book by the economists George Akerlof and Robert Shille...(展开全部)

Review White House Budget Director Peter Orszag is a numbers guy, a propeller head as President Obama would say. But as David Von Drehle and I write in this week's print version of Time, Orszag has been spending his time recently reading not about spreadsheets, but about psychology. In particular, he has been reading a new book by the economists George Akerlof and Robert Shille...(展开全部)

The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith in ever-rising housing prices to plummeting confidence in capital markets, "animal spirits" are driving financial events worldwide. In this book, acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller challenge the economic wisd...(展开全部)

乔治·阿克洛夫(George A.Akedof)，1966年获美国麻省理工学院博士，现为美国伯克利加州大学经济学教授，因在分析不对称信息市场方面作出的重要贡献，于2001年获诺贝尔经济学奖。阿克洛夫的研究借鉴了社会学、心理学、人类学以及其他学科以确定经济学的影响和结果，他研究领域包括宏观经济学、贫困问题、家庭问题、犯罪、歧视、货币政策等。 罗伯特·希勒(Robert J.Shiller)，1972年获得麻省理工学院经济学博士学位，现为美国耶鲁大学经济学教授。希勒在金融市场、行为经济学、宏观经济学、不动产等方面，著作颇丰。他和另一位经济学家Karl E.Case开发的Case-Shiller房价指数是衡量美国住房市场走势的主要指标。他的《终结次贷危机》、《非理性繁荣》和《金融新秩序》等著作是全球畅销书。

Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system," laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging the belief that the sense of smell diminished during human evolution, Shepherd argues that this sense, which constitutes the main component of flavor, is far more powerful and essen...(展开全部)

Leading neuroscientist Gordon M. Shepherd embarks on a paradigm-shifting trip through the "human brain flavor system," laying the foundations for a new scientific field: neurogastronomy. Challenging the belief that the sense of smell diminished during human evolution, Shepherd argues that this sense, which constitutes the main component of flavor, is far more powerful and essen...(展开全部)

An engaging introduction to the fundamental elements of an economy "How an Economy Grows and Why it Doesn't" uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author, Peter Schiff, presents economics in two informative, yet thoroughly entertaining tales. Expanding on tw...(展开全部)

An engaging introduction to the fundamental elements of an economy "How an Economy Grows and Why it Doesn't" uses illustration, humor, and accessible storytelling to explain complex topics of economic growth and monetary systems. In it, economic expert and bestselling author, Peter Schiff, presents economics in two informative, yet thoroughly entertaining tales. Expanding on tw...(展开全部)