How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that...(展开全部)

【美】罗伯特·弗兰克 • 行为经济学家，康奈尔大学约翰逊管理学院经济学和管理学教授，《纽约时报》经济评论专栏特约评论员。 • 著有《牛奶可乐经济学》系列畅销书。与美联储主席本•伯南克（Ben Bernanke）合著的《宏观经济学原理》和《微观经济学原理》成为“全世界最受欢迎的经济学教材”之一。 • 主张经济学应该是一门根植于经验和观察的社会科学，而不是以数学为核心的硬科学。致力于把经济学从数学中解放出来，并为其在人们的日常生活中生根发芽提供无限的能量。

What if being lucky was a skill that you could master and share with other people? Modern life is full of chance encounters, changing plans, delayed journeys, human errors and other mishaps. So, what if we use such unpredictability to our advantage? Dr Christian Busch has spent a decade exploring how, if acted upon, unexpected encounters can enhance our worldview, expand our so...(展开全部)

英国艺术史家，小说家，画家。1926年出生于伦敦。1946年从军队退役后进入Central School of Art和Chelsea School of Art学习。1948年至1955年以教授绘画为业，曾举办个人画展。1952年，他开始为伦敦左派杂志New Statesman撰稿，并迅速成为英国当代最有影响力的艺术批评家。此后他更有多部艺术专著问世，如《观看之道》、《看》、《另一种讲述的方式》、《毕加索的成败》等，已经是艺术批评的经典；他亦写小说，名篇G.（1972）获英国布克奖及詹姆斯·泰特·布莱克纪念奖。 最近20年间，伯格一直生活在阿尔卑斯山脚下的一个法国小村庄中。濒临消亡的传统山区生活方式令他着迷，并反映在他的作品中。 ... 我尊崇并热爱约翰·伯格的作品。他为世间真正重要之事写作，而非随兴所至。在当代英语作家中，我奉他为翘楚；自劳伦斯以...(展开全部)

What role, exactly, do skill and luck play in our successes and failures? Some games, like roulette and the lottery, are pure luck. Others, like chess, exist at the other end of the spectrum, relying almost wholly on the skill of the players. But in every other domain--from business, to investing, to sports--skill and luck seem almost hopelessly entangled. In his provocative ne...(展开全部)

For you to be here today reading this requires a mind-boggling series of lucky breaks, starting with the Big Bang and ending in your own conception. So it's not surprising that we persist in thinking that we're in with a chance, whether we're playing the lottery or working out the likelihood of extra-terrestrial life. In Chance, a (not entirely) random selection of the New Scie...(展开全部)

英国著名当代女作家。作品包括三本获奖作品《橘子不是唯一的水果》《激情》《区分樱桃的性别》等。现在活跃在国际文坛，发表大量的诗歌、小说、评论等。

玛格丽特·阿特伍德，被称为加拿大“文学女王”，迄今为止已出版超过35部享誉国际的小说、诗歌和论文集。她的作品《可以吃的女人》、《猫眼》、《别名格蕾斯》和《羚羊与秧鸡》均登上布克奖候选单。2000年她以长篇小说《盲刺客》获得了英语文学最高奖项布克奖。 布克奖的授奖词称：“当玛格丽特·阿特伍德搬开压在文字与心灵上的顽石，展现在世人面前的，是一个既广阔无垠又纤毫毕现的世界，一个突破了时空，性别和文体的世界。 在此之前，阿特伍德早已获得过加拿大总督文学奖，英联邦文学奖，哈佛大学百年奖章，《悉尼时报》文学杰出成就奖，意大利Premio Mondale奖等，并被多次提名诺贝尔文学奖。 她是加拿大皇家学会会员，并曾被授予挪威文学成就勋章和法兰西艺术与文学骑士勋章。她不审美国艺术科学院院的外籍荣誉院士。玛格丽特·阿特伍德现居多伦多。

In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife, her story a salutary lesson through the ages. Left alone for twenty years when Odysseus goes off to fight in the Trojan war after the abduction of Helen, Penelope manages, in the face of scandalous rumours, to maintain the ...(展开全部)

The internationally acclaimed Myths series brings together some of the finest writers of our time to provide a contemporary take on some of our most enduring stories. Here, the timeless and universal tales that reflect and shape our lives–mirroring our fears and desires, helping us make sense of the world–are revisited, updated, and made new. Margaret Atwood’s Pene...(展开全部)