科林·琼斯，英国沃威克大学历史系教授，还著有《法国革命的诺曼战役》和《慈悲的强制》等。

In life, uncertainty surrounds us. Things that we thought were good for us turn out to be bad for us (and vice versa); people we thought we knew well behave in mysterious ways; the stock market takes a nosedive. Thanks to an inexplicable optimism, most of the time we are fairly cheerful about it all. But we do devote much effort to managing and ameliorating uncertainty. Is it a...(展开全部)

Presents the sometimes challenging world of futures, options, and other derivatives in an accessible, cohesive, and intuitive manner. Includes insights into pricing models, a tiered approach to mathematics, and an applied emphasis.

Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to answer this question, explaining why economic players know what they know--and how the information they have affects collective outcomes. Instead of assuming what people d...(展开全部)

Do all cultures and historical periods have a concept corresponding to the English word emotion? This collection of essays is concerned with the closest candidate within the Chinese language, namely the term qíng. What is the meaning of this term in different periods and genres? What are the types of discourse in which it is typically found? This volume contains two essays on t...(展开全部)

At the close of the 1970s, government treasuries and central banks took a vow of perpetual self-restraint. To this day, fiscal authorities fret over soaring public debt burdens, while central bankers wring their hands at the slightest sign of rising wages. As the brief reprieve of coronavirus spending made clear, no departure from government austerity will be tolerated without ...(展开全部)

理查德·Ｈ·泰勒（Richard H.Thaler），1945年生，1974年毕业于罗彻斯特大学，获经济学博士学位。现执教于芝加哥大学商学院，Robert P.Gwinn金融和行为科学教授，行为决策研究中心主任，同时在国民经济研究局（NBER）主管行为经济学的研究工作。泰勒教授的研究主要集中于心理学、经济学等交叉学科，属于“经济学帝国主义”的开疆拓荒者，被认为是现代行为经济学和行为金融学领域的先锋经济学家，并且在储蓄和投资行为研究具有很深的研究造诣。他已经发表了很多大量高水平的论文和专著，其中代表著作有《赢者的诅咒》和《准理性经济学》。

Richard H. Thaler studies behavioral economics and finance as well as the psychology of decision-making which lies in the gap between economics and psychology. He investigates the implications of relaxing the standard economic assumption that everyone in the economy is rational and selfish, instead entertaining the possibility that some of the agents in the economy are sometime...(展开全部)