In this shocking memoir, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins tells of his own inner journey from willing servant of empire to impassioned advocate for the rights of oppressed people. Covertly recruited by the United States National Security Agency and on the payroll of an international consulting firm, he traveled the world—to Indonesia, Panama, Ecuador, Colombia, ...(展开全部)

出身英国的大卫·奥格威，是现代广告业的大师级传奇人物，他一手创立了奥美广告公司，开启了现代广告业的新纪元。他确立了奥美这个品牌，启蒙了对消费者研究的运用，同时创造出一种崭新的广告文化。 奥格威早年做过厨师、炊具推销员，后移居美国，在乔治·盖洛普博士的受众研究所担任助理调查指导。二战期间先后在英国安全协调处（British Security Coordination）和英国驻美大使馆任职。后在宾夕法尼亚州做农夫。 他的作品机智而迷人，但最重要的是：他坚持它们必须有助于销售。他把广告业的经营和专业化推向顶峰，他的价值观造就出了一个全球性的传播网络，他睿智隽永的风格不但朔造了奥美广告，同时更深深影响着整个广告业的发展。 奥格威被《时代》周刊称为“当今广告业最抢手的广告奇才”，被《纽约时报》称为“现代广告最具创造力的推动。

In the first part of this famous work, published in 1821 but then revised and expanded in 1856, De Quincey vividly describes a number of experiences during his boyhood which he implies laid the foundations for his later life of helpless drug addiction. The second part consists of his remarkable account of the pleasures and pains of opium, ostensibly offered as a muted apology f...(展开全部)

This book seeks to elucidate its subject - the governing of democratic state - by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics. His explanations are systematically related to, and deductible from, precisely stated assumptions about the motivations that attend the decisions of voters and parties and the e...(展开全部)

These essays explore what happens when a skilful economist makes unconventional assumptions. Economic theory has traditionally relied upon a tacit and 'classical' set of assumptions that have gradually acquired a life of their own in defining how economists write and how they justify economic models. Similarly, these assumptions have acquired an autonomous character: they guide...(展开全部)

美国的“经济杀手”披着经济学家、银行家、国际金融顾问之类的合法外衣，其实肩负着帮助美国政府建立全球霸权、掠夺全球的战略任务。他们通过伪造经济预测报告、操纵选举、贿赂、敲诈、色诱乃至谋杀等手段，拉拢、腐蚀和控制他国的政治经济精英，向他们蓄意提出过于乐观的宏观经济分析和产业投资建议，诱骗发展中国家落入预设的经济陷阱，控制这些国家的经济命脉和自然资源，巩固、扩大美国在全球的经济、政治和军事霸权。 珀金斯在书中披露了自己作为经济杀手期间所见证的一切，揭开了多起国际重大事件背后的秘密，如沙特阿拉伯洗钱风波、伊朗国王的垮台、厄瓜多尔和巴拿马总统之死，以及美国入侵巴拿马和伊拉克的前因后果。 作者想让读者明白，我们都是“经济杀手”的受害人，经济杀手策略继续肆虐会造成地球的死亡。作者呼吁全世界应该联手终结经济杀手策略，加入新的“生命经济”中来。 本书直斥美国阴暗的一面...(展开全部)

艾伦・纽哈斯：《今日美国》，自由论坛，新闻论坛的创办者，畅销书作者，专栏作家，脱口秀常客，世界范围的讲演者和报告人，传媒集团加内特公司前任主席及首席执行官。

维拉·扎马尼（Vera Zamagni），牛津大学经济史博士，博洛尼亚大学经济史教授、约翰斯·霍普金斯大学世界经济高级客座教授，曾任意大利艾米利亚-罗马涅（Emilia-Romagna）大区副区长。她是European Review of Economic History的联合创办者、il Mulino科学委员会委员、意大利经济史学会（Italian Economic History Society）前秘书长，曾出版《意大利经济史》（Introduzione Alla Storia Economica D'italia）、《全球化的故事》（Una Storia Globale）等十余部著作。