迈克尔·卡瓦斯（Michael Kwass），现任职于约翰·霍普金斯大学，其主要研究领域是近代早期法国的政治文化与经济文化，研究时段从路易十四时期至法国大革命时期，主要关注国家的形成、精英政治与大众政治、启蒙运动、大众文化、消费、法国在大西洋的活动以及全球化等问题。其研究论著包括《18世纪法国税收的特权与政治：自由、平等与课税》（Privilege and the Politics of Taxation in Eighteenth-Century France：Liberte，Egalite，Fiscalite，2000）与《走私如何威胁政府——路易·马德林的全球性地下组织》（Contraband：Louis Mandrin and theMaking ofa Global Underground，2014）。

If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades. It almost certainly would not have been London, an unassuming hub of the wool and cloth trade with a population of around 75,00...(展开全部)

If one had looked for a potential global city in Europe in the 1540s, the most likely candidate would have been Antwerp, which had emerged as the center of the German and Spanish silver exchange as well as the Portuguese spice and Spanish sugar trades. It almost certainly would not have been London, an unassuming hub of the wool and cloth trade with a population of around 75,00...(展开全部)

罗伯特·布德里(Robert Buderi)是一位美国的记者、作家和编辑。他曾担任《麻省理工学院科技评论》主编、“世界前沿论坛”主席。他是多部图书的作者，他的作品不仅关注技术本身的发展，还关注其对社会和商业的影响。

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives ...(展开全部)

玛丽安娜·马祖卡托（Mariana Mazzucato），经济学家，伦敦大学学院（UCL）创新与公共价值经济学教授，创新与公共目的研究所创始人兼所长。 她被美国《新共和》杂志评为“三位最重要的创新经济学家”之一；2014 年，获《新政治家》颁发的政治经济学斯佩里奖；2018年，获列昂季耶夫奖。 她也为世界各地的决策者提供有关创新和可持续增长的建议。2015年9月起，马祖卡托任英国工党七人经济顾问委员会委员，其他委员还包括明星经济学家托马斯·皮凯蒂和诺奖得主约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨。2018年起，担任经济合作与发展组织（OCDE）安赫尔·古里亚的特别顾问，2019年加入联合国发展政策委员会。

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives ...(展开全部)

巴里·布赞：英国伦敦政治经济学院国际关系系荣誉教授、外交政策智库“国际事务、外交与战略研究中心”（LSE IDEAS）高级研究员、英国社会科学院院士，是国际关系“英国学派”的代表人物，他的代表作包括：《世界历史中的国际体系》（与理查德·利特尔合著）、《地区安全复合体与国际安全结构》（与奥利·维夫合著）、《从国际社会到世界社会》、《国际安全研究的演化》（与琳娜·汉森合著）、《英国学派理论导论》等。 乔治·劳森：英国伦敦政治经济学院国际关系系副教授，他聚焦于国际关系与历史社会学之间的交叉研究，著有《协商的革命》，主编有《全球1989》（与克里斯·阿姆布拉斯特、迈克尔·考克斯合著）。

The 'long nineteenth century' (1776-1914) was a period of political, economic, military and cultural revolutions that re-forged both domestic and international societies. Neither existing international histories nor international relations texts sufficiently register the scale and impact of this 'global transformation', yet it is the consequences of these multiple revolutions t...(展开全部)