This is a provocative look at the history, politics, and perils of intelligence testing. Despite well documented shortcomings and a controversial history, intelligence tests continue to be used widely in schools, in the workplace, and even in the courtroom. Combining excellent scholarship with highly readable prose, "IQ" tells the fascinating story of intelligence testing from ...(展开全部)

This is a provocative look at the history, politics, and perils of intelligence testing. Despite well documented shortcomings and a controversial history, intelligence tests continue to be used widely in schools, in the workplace, and even in the courtroom. Combining excellent scholarship with highly readable prose, "IQ" tells the fascinating story of intelligence testing from ...(展开全部)

With apologies to Hegel, Marx, and Lenin, the basic unit of modern society is neither the state, nor the commune, nor the party; it is the company. From this bold premise, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge chart the rise of one of history’s great catalysts for good and evil. In a “fast-paced and well-written” work (Forbes), the authors reveal how innovations such as limit...(展开全部)

[英]约翰·米克尔思韦特，《经济学人》杂志资深记者，毕业于牛津大学，作品遍及《纽约时报》《金融时报》《华尔街日报》《卫报》等主流媒体。 [英]阿德里安·伍尔德里奇，《经济学人》杂志资深记者，毕业于牛津大学，作品遍及《华盛顿邮报》《外交政策》《金融时报》《泰晤士报文学增刊》等主流媒体。

This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once ...(展开全部)

Conservatives in America have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made their economy worse, centering the policy debate in the wake of the financial crisis on draconian budget cuts. Americans are told that they need to live in an age of austerity since they have all lived beyond their means and now need to tighten their belts. This view conve...(展开全部)

Mark Blyth is Professor of International Political Economy at Brown University. He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century.

Conservatives in America have succeeded in casting government spending as useless profligacy that has made their economy worse, centering the policy debate in the wake of the financial crisis on draconian budget cuts. Americans are told that they need to live in an age of austerity since they have all lived beyond their means and now need to tighten their belts. This view conve...(展开全部)

Mark Blyth is Professor of International Political Economy at Brown University. He is the author of Great Transformations: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century.

This is the story of our quest to understand the most mysterious object in the universe: the human brain. Today we tend to picture it as a computer. Earlier scientists thought about it in their own technological terms: as a telephone switchboard, or a clock, or all manner of fantastic mechanical or hydraulic devices. Could the right metaphor unlock the its deepest secrets once ...(展开全部)