How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that...(展开全部)

【美】罗伯特·弗兰克 • 行为经济学家，康奈尔大学约翰逊管理学院经济学和管理学教授，《纽约时报》经济评论专栏特约评论员。 • 著有《牛奶可乐经济学》系列畅销书。与美联储主席本•伯南克（Ben Bernanke）合著的《宏观经济学原理》和《微观经济学原理》成为“全世界最受欢迎的经济学教材”之一。 • 主张经济学应该是一门根植于经验和观察的社会科学，而不是以数学为核心的硬科学。致力于把经济学从数学中解放出来，并为其在人们的日常生活中生根发芽提供无限的能量。

【美】罗伯特·弗兰克 • 行为经济学家，康奈尔大学约翰逊管理学院经济学和管理学教授，《纽约时报》经济评论专栏特约评论员。 • 著有《牛奶可乐经济学》系列畅销书。与美联储主席本•伯南克（Ben Bernanke）合著的《宏观经济学原理》和《微观经济学原理》成为“全世界最受欢迎的经济学教材”之一。 • 主张经济学应该是一门根植于经验和观察的社会科学，而不是以数学为核心的硬科学。致力于把经济学从数学中解放出来，并为其在人们的日常生活中生根发芽提供无限的能量。

How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that...(展开全部)

What if being lucky was a skill that you could master and share with other people? Modern life is full of chance encounters, changing plans, delayed journeys, human errors and other mishaps. So, what if we use such unpredictability to our advantage? Dr Christian Busch has spent a decade exploring how, if acted upon, unexpected encounters can enhance our worldview, expand our so...(展开全部)

In cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi , Banana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller status. Her insightful, spare vision returns in two novellas possessed by the ghosts of love found and lost. In Hardboiled , the unnamed narrator is hiking in the mountains on ...(展开全部)

In cherished novels such as Kitchen and Goodbye Tsugumi , Banana Yoshimoto’s warm, witty, and heartfelt depictions of the lives of young Japanese have earned her international acclaim and best-seller status. Her insightful, spare vision returns in two novellas possessed by the ghosts of love found and lost. In Hardboiled , the unnamed narrator is hiking in the mountains on ...(展开全部)

You do not mess with the Special Investigators! The events of 9/11 changed Jack Reacher's drifter life in a practical way. In addition to his folding toothbrush, he now needs to carry photo ID to get around. Yet he is still as close to untraceable as a human being in America can get. So when a member of his old Army unit manages to get a message to him, he knows it has to be de...(展开全部)

The concept of luck has played an important role in debates concerning free will and moral responsibility, yet participants in these debates have relied upon an intuitive notion of what luck is. Neil Levy develops an account of luck, which is then applied to the free will debate. He argues that the standard luck objection succeeds against common accounts of libertarian free wil...(展开全部)

The concept of luck has played an important role in debates concerning free will and moral responsibility, yet participants in these debates have relied upon an intuitive notion of what luck is. Neil Levy develops an account of luck, which is then applied to the free will debate. He argues that the standard luck objection succeeds against common accounts of libertarian free wil...(展开全部)