Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary Americans. And as finance continues to expand, inequality soars. In Divested, Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely demonstrate why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of big ...(展开全部)

Finance is an inescapable part of American life. From how one pursues an education, buys a home, runs a business, or saves for retirement, finance orders the lives of ordinary Americans. And as finance continues to expand, inequality soars. In Divested, Ken-Hou Lin and Megan Tobias Neely demonstrate why widening inequality cannot be understood without examining the rise of big ...(展开全部)

马丁·吉伦斯 加州大学洛杉矶分校教授，曾任普林斯顿大学政治学教授，美国人文与科学学院院士。他的研究领域包括：代表性、公众舆论和大众媒体，特别是与不平等和公共政策有关的问题。他的主要著作包括：《为什么美国人讨厌福利:种族、媒体和反贫困政策的政治》（Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy）《美国的民主？:哪里出了问题，我们能做些什么》（Democracy in America?: What Has Gone Wrong and What We Can Do about It）。 译者 孟天广 清华大学社会科学学院副院长、政治学系长聘副教授、教育部青年长江学者，兼任清华大学计算社会科学平台执行主任、苏世民书院兼聘教授。主要研究领域为中国...(展开全部)

Can a country be a democracy if its government only responds to the preferences of the rich? In an ideal democracy, all citizens should have equal influence on government policy--but as this book demonstrates, America's policymakers respond almost exclusively to the preferences of the economically advantaged. Affluence and Influence definitively explores how political inequalit...(展开全部)

From the Nobel Prize–winning economist and New York Times bestselling coauthor of Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism, candid reflections on the economist’s craft. Deaton is witty and pulls no punches. In this incisive, candid, and funny book, he describes the everyday lives of working economists, recounting the triumphs as well as the disasters, and tells the inside...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"―the work that society considers essential but morally compromised Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States’ most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press of...(展开全部)

A groundbreaking, urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"―the work that society considers essential but morally compromised Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations. Undocumented immigrants who man the “kill floors” of industrial slaughterhouses. Guards who patrol the wards of the United States’ most violent and abusive prisons. In Dirty Work, Eyal Press of...(展开全部)

布莱森是英国国宝级作家，著名非虚构作家，英国皇家学会荣誉院士，詹姆斯·乔伊斯奖、塞缪尔·约翰逊奖等多个文学奖获得者。 他曾任英国杜伦大学校长，取得两所大学的文学博士学位、九所英国知名大学的荣誉博士学位。早年曾供职于《泰晤士报》《独立报》，同时也为《纽约时报》《国家地理杂志》等撰文。 他尤其擅长人文历史、科普、游记类的写作，代表作有 《万物简史》《人体简史》 等。其中，科普巨著《万物简史》全球销量超千万册，简体中文版销量破百万册；中文版《人体简史》荣获2021年第十六届文津图书奖。

Alexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835–40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America a...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) came to America in 1831 to see what a great republic was like. What struck him most was the country's equality of conditions, its democracy. The book he wrote on his return to France, Democracy in America, is both the best ever written on democracy and the best ever written on America. It remains the most often quoted book about the United States...(展开全部)