Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of t...(展开全部)

阿比吉特·班纳吉（Abhijit V.Banerjee） 2019年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，美国麻省理工学院福特基金会国际经济学教授。曾就读于印度加尔各答大学、贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁大学及美国哈佛大学；曾任发展经济学分析研究局局长、美国艺术科学研究院及计量经济学会研究员、古根海姆基金会及艾尔弗雷德·斯隆基金会研究员。获2009年度印孚瑟斯（Infosys）奖等多个奖项，曾任世界银行和印度政府等多家组织机构荣誉顾问。 埃斯特·迪弗洛（Esther Duflo） 2019年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，美国麻省理工学院经济系阿卜杜勒·拉蒂夫·贾米尔扶贫与发展经济学教授；曾就读于法国巴黎高等师范学院和美国麻省理工学院；获大量荣誉：2010年度约翰·贝茨·克拉克奖（“美国40岁以下最佳经济学家奖”），2009年度麦克阿瑟“天才”奖学金，《经济学人》杂志“八大杰出经济学家”之一...(展开全部)

The winners of the Nobel Prize show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of...(展开全部)

From Nobel Prize–winning economist Jean Tirole, a bold new agenda for the role of economics in society When Jean Tirole won the 2014 Nobel Prize in Economics, he suddenly found himself being stopped in the street by complete strangers and asked to comment on issues of the day, no matter how distant from his own areas of research. His transformation from academic economist to pu...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Flint.

Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 10...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Flint.

Hard Times is Dickens's shortest novel, and arguably his greatest triumph. A useful appendix of the author's working notes, together with an enlightening introduction and full explanatory notes, will ensure that this edition becomes the obvious choice for anyone studying the novel. Paul Schlike is Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 10...(展开全部)

Reason, Facts, and statistics... Dickensa scathing portrait of Victorian industrial society and its misapplied utilitarian philosophy, "Hard Times" features schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind, one of his most richly dimensional, memorable characters. Filled with the details and wonders of small-town life, it is also a daring novel of ideasaand ultimately, a celebration of love, hop...(展开全部)

Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Tending the Body: The History of Economics 2 Tending the Soul: The Defense of "Noneconomic Values" 3 Bringing Body and Soul Together 4 Love and Money? The Question of Individual Motivation 5 Business and Ethics? The Question of Organizational Behavior 6 Keeping Body and Soul Together Notes Index