This revolutionary work taught the world how to systematically distinguish between risk -- randomness with knowable probabilities -- and uncertainty -- randomness with unknowable probabilities -- in order to accurately and properly ascertain a venture's potential profitability. Knight's methodology served as the foundation of the Chicago School of Economics.

This revolutionary work taught the world how to systematically distinguish between risk -- randomness with knowable probabilities -- and uncertainty -- randomness with unknowable probabilities -- in order to accurately and properly ascertain a venture's potential profitability. Knight's methodology served as the foundation of the Chicago School of Economics.

Profit — getting more out of something than you put into it — is the original genius of homo sapiens, who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood, exploit the land, and refashion ecosystems. As civilization developed, we found more and more ways of extracting surplus value from the earth, often deploying brutally effective methods to discipline people to do the work ne...(展开全部)

劳伦斯·布洛克，享誉世界的美国侦探小说大师，当代硬汉派侦探小说最杰出的代表。他的小说不仅在美国备受青睐，而且跨越了大西洋，完全征服了自诩为侦探小说故乡的欧洲。 侦探小说界最重要的两个奖项，爱伦·坡奖的终身成就奖和钻石匕首奖均肯定了劳伦斯的大师地位。此外，他曾三次获爱伦·坡奖，两获马耳他之鹰奖，四获夏姆奖（后两个奖项都是重要的硬汉派侦探小说奖项）。 劳伦斯被称为“纽约犯罪风景的行吟诗人”，其作品主要包括以下四个系列： 马修·斯卡德系列：以一名戒酒无执照的私人侦探为主角； 雅贼系列：以一名中年小偷兼二手书店老板伯尼·罗登巴尔为主角； 伊凡·谭纳系列：以一名朝鲜战争期间遭炮击从此睡不着觉的侦探为主角； 奇波·哈里森系列：以一名肥胖、不离开办公室的、自我陶醉的私人侦探为主角。 此外，布洛克还著有杀手约翰·保罗·凯勒系列。 劳伦斯·布洛克生于纽约布法罗，现居纽...(展开全部)

I wanted a text that would bring together the ideas behind many of the more recent distributed systems - systems such as Amazon's Dynamo, Google's BigTable and MapReduce, Apache's Hadoop and so on. In this text I've tried to provide a more accessible introduction to distributed systems. To me, that means two things: introducing the key concepts that you will need in order to ha...(展开全部)

A history of how corporate innovation has shaped society, from ancient Rome to Silicon Valley Americans have long been skeptical of corporations, and that skepticism has only grown more intense in recent years.Meanwhile, corporations continue to amasswealth and power at a dizzying rate, recklesslypursuingprofitwhile leaving society to sort out the costs. In For Profit, law pr...(展开全部)

I wanted a text that would bring together the ideas behind many of the more recent distributed systems - systems such as Amazon's Dynamo, Google's BigTable and MapReduce, Apache's Hadoop and so on. In this text I've tried to provide a more accessible introduction to distributed systems. To me, that means two things: introducing the key concepts that you will need in order to ha...(展开全部)

威廉·马格努森（William Magnuson） 哈佛大学法学院法学博士，曾任苏利文·克伦威尔律师事务所兼并与收购组合伙人，现为美国得克萨斯农工大学法学院教授，教授公司史课程。著有《区块链与大众之治》一书，并在《华尔街日报》《华盛顿邮报》《洛杉矶时报》等杂志上发表过多篇有关金融科技、国际法和公司的文章。