This entertaining book describes the global history of economic fluctuations and business cycle theory over more than 300 years. It explains the core of the problem and shows how cycles can be forecast and how they are managed by central banks. The book concludes with detailed studies of how sub-sectors of stocks, bonds, hedge funds, private equity funds, gold, exchange rates, ...(展开全部)

How does science work? Does it tell us what the world is “really” like? What makes it different from other ways of understanding the universe? In Theory and Reality, Peter Godfrey-Smith addresses these questions by taking the reader on a grand tour of more than a hundred years of debate about science. The result is a completely accessible introduction to the main themes of the ...(展开全部)

An update of a definitive investment text, Modern Portfolio Theory is a comprehensive guide to asset allocation, portfolio optimization, asset pricing models, and securities analysis, with an emphasis on practical, empirical methodology and technique. The 8th edition of Modern Portfolio Theory has been updated with new developments in behavioral finance and choice theory, recen...(展开全部)

This book covers the characteristics and analysis of individual securities as well as the theory and practice of optimally combining securities into portfolios. Stressing the economic intuition behind the subject matter, this classic text pres-ents advanced concepts of investment analysis and portfolio management. It can be used for courses in both portfolio theory and...(展开全部)

In recent times there has been recognition of the growing influence of cultural theory on historical writing. Foucault, Bourdieu, Butler and Spivak are just some of the thinkers whose ideas have been taken up and deployed by historians. What are these ideas and where do they come from? How have cultural theorists thought about 'history'? And how have historians applied theoreti...(展开全部)

History and Cultural Theory provides an introduction to the relationship between contemporary cultural theory and the study of history. Reflecting the growing influence on history of theorists such as Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault and Gayatri Spivak, it provides a clear and accessible guide to their thought and explains the implications of their ideas for historical studies....(展开全部)

彼得·伯克，出生于1937年，英国当代著名历史学家。毕业于牛津大学，获博士学位。现为剑桥大学文化史荣休教授、伊曼纽尔学院研究员。已出版 《意大利文艺复兴》（1972）； 《欧洲近代早期的大众文化》（1978）； 《历史学与社会理论》（1991）； 《制造路易十四》（1992）； 《知识社会史》（2000）； 《图像证史》（2000）； 《什么是文化史》（2004）； 《近代早期欧洲的语言和共同体》（2004）； 《文化杂交》（2009）等多部著作。 李康，出生于1971年，北京大学社会学系副教授，曾任牛津大学圣安东尼学院（太古/国泰基金）、哈佛大学（哈佛燕京学社）、香港中文大学社会学系（福特基金会）访问学者，研究领域为西方社会学理论、历史社会学、文化社会学。 译有《社会学的想象力》《反思社会学导引》《论基督君主的教育》《法国社会理论》《教育思想的演进...(展开全部)

What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a preeminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. Peter Burke reviews the emergence of the fields of history and social science and traces their tentative convergence as he reappraises the relations between th...(展开全部)

What is the use of social theory to historians, and of history to social theorists? In clear and energetic prose, a preeminent cultural historian here offers a far-reaching response to these deceptively simple questions. Peter Burke reviews the emergence of the fields of history and social science and traces their tentative convergence as he reappraises the relations between th...(展开全部)