安东尼·巴恩斯·阿特金森，Anthony Barnes Atkinson，FBA，（1944年9月4日-），是英国经济学家，自2005年以来一直是牛津大学纳菲尔德学院高级研究员。他于1966年从英国剑桥大学本科毕业。他被选为英国皇家学会会员（1984年），计量经济学会院士（1974年），美国经济学会荣誉会员（1985年），美国艺术与科学研究院外籍荣誉会员（1994年）。阿特金森的工作主要是针对收入分配，阿特金森指数( Atkinson's index) 即是以他命名。

安东尼·巴恩斯·阿特金森，Anthony Barnes Atkinson，FBA，（1944年9月4日-），是英国经济学家，自2005年以来一直是牛津大学纳菲尔德学院高级研究员。他于1966年从英国剑桥大学本科毕业。他被选为英国皇家学会会员（1984年），计量经济学会院士（1974年），美国经济学会荣誉会员（1985年），美国艺术与科学研究院外籍荣誉会员（1994年）。阿特金森的工作主要是针对收入分配，阿特金森指数( Atkinson's index) 即是以他命名。

In the universally acclaimed and award-winning The Bottom Billion , Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states--home to the poorest one billion people on Earth--pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty-first century. The book shines much-needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping furth...(展开全部)

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier），英国著名经济学家，牛津大学经济学和公共政策教授，前世界银行发展研究部门主任，英国政府顾问，曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖、克林纳国际书卷奖、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖、埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖等。著有《最底层的十亿人》《战争、枪炮与选票》《资本主义的未来》《贪婪已死》等。2010年和2011年被《外交政策》杂志评为“全球百大思想家”。

Global poverty, Paul Collier points out, is actually falling quite rapidly for about eighty percent of the world. The real crisis lies in a group of about 50 failing states, the bottom billion, whose problems defy traditional approaches to alleviating poverty. In The Bottom Billion, Collier contends that these fifty failed states pose the central challenge of the developing w...(展开全部)

2014: A great poem is read aloud and never heard again. For generations, people speculate about its message, but no copy has yet been found. 2119: The lowlands of the UK have been submerged by rising seas. Those who survive are haunted by the richness of the world that has been lost. Tom Metcalfe, an academic at the University of the South Downs, part of Britain’s remaining isl...(展开全部)

Are we able to do everything we ought to do? According to the important but controversial Ought Implies Can principle, the answer is yes. In this book Alex King sheds some much-needed light on this principle. She argues that it is flawed because we are obligated to perform some actions that we cannot perform, and goes on to present a suggested theory for anyone who would deny t...(展开全部)

From one of Washington’s most influential voices on economic policy, a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stability. Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavy-handed interference with market forces th...(展开全部)

What is poverty? What is inequality? How are they connected? How are they reproduced? How might they be overcome? Why should we try? This book—an ethnography of inequality—addresses these questions. Formed by a series of essays, they are written to be read individually, but have been arranged to be read as a totality and in sequence. Each aims to accomplish two things: first, t...(展开全部)