威廉·G.罗伊（William G. Roy），1977年于密歇根大学取得社会学博士学位，1976年至今任加州大学洛杉矶分校社会学教授，致力于研究大规模的经济转型。在其社会学研究中，罗伊对美国大型公司的兴起进行了历史性的调查，关注相关的政治、社会和制度演变过程。

Ever since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial part of American social and economic life. Here William Roy conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American c...(展开全部)

At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farm...(展开全部)

At the turn of the twentieth century, soybeans grew on so little of America’s land that nobody bothered to track the total. By the year 2000, they covered upward of 70 million acres, second only to corn, and had become the nation’s largest cash crop. How this little-known Chinese transplant, initially grown chiefly for forage, turned into a ubiquitous component of American farm...(展开全部)

Economic cycles are driven by financial flows, namely quantities of savings and credits, and not by high street inflation or interest rates. Their sweeping destructive powers are expressed through Global Liquidity, a $130 trillion pool of footloose cash. Global Liquidity describes the gross flows of credit and international capital feeding through the world’s banking systems an...(展开全部)

乔纳森•哈斯克尔（Jonathan Haskel） 英国帝国理工大学经济学教授、博士生课程主任，他也曾在布里斯托尔大学和伦敦商学院任教，是美国达特茅斯学院塔克商学院的客座教授。作为英国皇家经济学理事会成员和“研究、创新、科学政策专家高级别小组”的成员，哈斯克尔常年为欧盟提供政策建议。 斯蒂安•韦斯特莱克（Stian Westlake） 英国国家创新基金会（Nasta）高级研究员,曾是英国教育大臣的政策顾问。韦斯特莱克毕业于牛津大学和伦敦商学院，他的主要研究方向是创新、政策和新技术之间的联系。

The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, fr...(展开全部)

The first comprehensive account of the growing dominance of the intangible economy Early in the twenty-first century, a quiet revolution occurred. For the first time, the major developed economies began to invest more in intangible assets, like design, branding, R&D, and software, than in tangible assets, like machinery, buildings, and computers. For all sorts of businesses, fr...(展开全部)

From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography is the first book in English to document this phenomenon and to put it into historical context, while also examining the diverse approaches thriving within contemporary photography. Author Lyle...(展开全部)

Across the West, hard-right leaders are surging to power on platforms of ethno-economic nationalism, Christianity, and traditional family values. Is this phenomenon the end of neoliberalism or its monstrous offspring? In the Ruins of Neoliberalism casts the hard-right turn as animated by socioeconomically aggrieved white working- and middle-class populations but contoured by ne...(展开全部)