How do dealers price contemporary art in a world where objective criteria seem absent? Talking Prices is the first book to examine this question from a sociological perspective. On the basis of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative data, including interviews with art dealers in New York and Amsterdam, Olav Velthuis shows how contemporary art galleries juggle the contradi...(展开全部)

Professional investors are bombarded on a day to day basis with assertions about the role liquidity is playing and will play in determining prices in the financial markets. Few, if any, of the providers or recipients of such advice can truly claim to understand the well–springs of such liquidity and the transmission mechanisms through which it impacts asset prices. This groundb...(展开全部)

约翰·拉塞尔(John Russell)，美国当代著名艺术批评家。早年求学于牛津大学。1950年以来，长期任伦敦《星期日时报》和美国《纽约时报》专栏艺术批评家。拉塞尔一生撰写了大量的艺术著作，除了《现代艺术的意义》外，还有《亨利·摩尔》、《马克斯·恩斯特》、《弗兰西斯·培根》、《马蒂斯父子》和《波普艺术再界定》等。 拉塞尔还先后组织策划过亨利·摩尔、巴尔蒂斯和波普艺术等大型展览。1978年，拉塞尔荣获美国学院艺术协会评审颁发的弗兰克·朱伊特·马瑟艺术批评奖。

约翰·拉塞尔(John Russell)，美国当代著名艺术批评家。早年求学于牛津大学。1950年以来，长期任伦敦《星期日时报》和美国《纽约时报》专栏艺术批评家。拉塞尔一生撰写了大量的艺术著作，除了《现代艺术的意义》外，还有《亨利·摩尔》、《马克斯·恩斯特》、《弗兰西斯·培根》、《马蒂斯父子》和《波普艺术再界定》等。 拉塞尔还先后组织策划过亨利·摩尔、巴尔蒂斯和波普艺术等大型展览。1978年，拉塞尔荣获美国学院艺术协会评审颁发的弗兰克·朱伊特·马瑟艺术批评奖。

Efficiently Inefficient describes the key trading strategies used by hedge funds and demystifies the secret world of active investing. Leading financial economist Lasse Heje Pedersen combines the latest research with real-world examples and interviews with top hedge fund managers to show how certain trading strategies make money—and why they sometimes don’t. Pedersen views mark...(展开全部)

卡洛·M.奇波拉（Carlo M. Cipolla，1922-2000）,意大利著名经济史学家，加州大学伯克利分校经济史学教授，美国艺术与科学院、美国哲学学会、意大利猞猁之眼国家科学院、英国皇家历史学会、欧洲科学院成员。主编《欧洲经济史》，著有《工业革命前的欧洲社会与经济》《人类愚蠢基本定律》《地中海世界的货币、价格与文明》等。 译者： 宁凡，天津师范大学历史学博士，中国社会科学院世界历史研究所助理研究员，《世界历史》编辑，译有《三十年战争史》。

The purpose of this text is to analyze the key financial markets and instruments that facilitate trade and investment activity on a global scale. It spans two key areas: first - the economic determinants of prices, price changes and price relationships in the major financial markets; second - the policy issues that result from private enterprises and public policymakers.

In the modern era, the archive--official or personal--has become the most significant means by which historical knowledge and memory are collected, stored, and recovered. The archive has thus emerged as a key site of inquiry in such fields as anthropology, critical theory, history, and, especially, recent art. Traces and testimonies of such events as World War II and ensuing co...(展开全部)