乔尔•科特金，一位全球公认的世界经济和社会问题权威，新美国基金会”欧文高级研究员，《华盛顿邮报》、《华尔街杂志》、《美国企业界》和《洛杉矶时报》等名牌媒体炙手可热的专栏作家。在未来学、民族学和城市问题等研究领域受到各国广泛关注，颇具权威性。其著作往往一面世，即成经典书热卖，在全球声名远播。 他的另外四部著作包括《纽约时报》和《洛杉矶时报》排行榜上最畅销的《新地域和种族》。

A cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of cryptocurrencies, will transform economies for better and worse. We think we’ve seen financial innovation. We bank from laptops and buy coffee with the wave of a phone. But these are minor miracles compared with the dizzying experiments now underway around the globe, as businesses and ...(展开全部)

A cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of cryptocurrencies, will transform economies for better and worse. We think we’ve seen financial innovation. We bank from laptops and buy coffee with the wave of a phone. But these are minor miracles compared with the dizzying experiments now underway around the globe, as businesses and ...(展开全部)

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian depicts much more than a break with England. He gives readers a revolution that transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities sometimes baffled and disappointed its founding fathers.

Selected by Choice as a 2003 Outstanding Academic Title Selected by the American Library Association (ALA) as one of "The Best of the Best from the University Presses: Books You Should Know About," 2003 Selected as an outstanding book by University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries In this provocative book, one of our most eminent political scientists poses ...(展开全部)

China is now the biggest foreign player in Africa. It's Africa's largest trade partner, the largest infrastructure financier, and the fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment. Chinese entrepreneurs are flooding into the continent, investing in long-term assets such as factories and heavy equipment. Considering Africa's difficult history of colonialism, one might susp...(展开全部)