Today China is a major player in advancing the frontiers of biomedicine, yet previous accounts have examined only whether medical ideas and institutions created in the West were successfully transferred to China. This is the first book to demonstrate the role China played in creating a globalized biomedicine between 1850 and 1950. This was China's ""Century of Humiliation"" whe...(展开全部)

The market for financial derivatives is far and away the largest and most powerful market in the world, and it is growing exponentially. In 1970 the yearly valuation of financial derivatives was only a few million dollars. By 1980 the sum had swollen to nearly one hundred million dollars. By 1990 it had climbed to almost one hundred billion dollars, and in 2000 it approached on...(展开全部)

A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. "The Cultures of Globalization" presents an international panel of intellectuals who consider the process of globalization as it concerns the transformation of the economic into...(展开全部)

Get a new perspective from the ‘other half’ of macroeconomics The failure of the vast majority of economists in government, academia and the private sector to predict either the post-2008 Great Recession or the degree of its severity has raised serious credibility issues for the profession. The repeated failures of central banks and other policymakers in all advanced countries ...(展开全部)

Get a new perspective from the ‘other half’ of macroeconomics The failure of the vast majority of economists in government, academia and the private sector to predict either the post-2008 Great Recession or the degree of its severity has raised serious credibility issues for the profession. The repeated failures of central banks and other policymakers in all advanced countries ...(展开全部)

This book seeks to reconcile the dual forces of war and economic globalization in tracing China's early modernity. For late imperial China, there were two forms of encounter with the West; the guns of invading Europeans, and the ledgers by which trade between China and the West was measured and regulated. Even today, China's reactions to the West oscillate between business-driv...(展开全部)

塞尔日·格鲁金斯基，现就职于法国高等社会科学研究院，同时兼任法国国家研究中心历史研究员。格鲁金斯基多年来一直从事16-18世纪的拉丁美洲研究，从上世纪90年代以来，屡有力作问世，其中《征服墨西哥》、《墨西哥高原的上帝化身》与《阿兹特克：太阳与血的民族》等著在欧美学界均引发了广泛的学术讨论。学界比较知名的专业刊物如《美国历史评论》、《英国历史评论》、《历史与理论》、《拉丁美洲研究评论》等都对他的著作进行评论。