Politicians continually tell us that anyone can get ahead. But is that really true? This important book takes readers behind the closed doors of elite employers to reveal how class affects who gets to the top. Friedman and Laurison show that a powerful ‘class pay gap’ exists in Britain’s elite occupations. Even when those from working-class backgrounds make it into prestigious ...(展开全部)

Conservatives and progressives rarely agree on much—but one thing many agree upon is that it’s not OK to be a moderate. This book shows they are wrong. In Why It’s OK to be a Moderate, Marcus Arvan shows how many of history’s worst evils have resulted from far-right and far-left radicalism, how escalating conflicts between conservatives and progressives are undermining democrac...(展开全部)

Do you want to follow a script — or write your own story? Award-winning Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino shows us why the most successful among us break the rules, and how rebellion brings joy and meaning into our lives. Rebels have a bad reputation. We think of them as troublemakers, outcasts, contrarians: those colleagues, friends, and family members who compl...(展开全部)

弗朗西斯卡?吉诺（Francesca Gino）是哈佛商学院*年轻的教授、首席研究员。曾获美国国家科学基金会与美国管理学会重大研究奖项，其研究广见于重要的心理学及管理学术期刊、重量级大众媒体，如《纽约时报》、《华尔街日报》、美国《商业周刊》、《波士顿环球报》、《经济学人》、《赫芬顿邮报》、《新闻周刊》及《科学人杂志》等。她在美国哥伦比亚广播公司与国家公共广播电台都有节目。其作品《为什么我们的决定常出错：哈佛商学院的9堂心理课》已经出版中文版。

Why It’s OK to Be Amoral argues that self-righteous moralism has replaced religion as a source of embattled and gratuitous certainties. High-minded moral convictions invoke the authority of sacred moral truths, but there are no such truths. In reality, moral passions are rooted in atavistic emotional dispositions and arbitrary social conventions. While public and private discou...(展开全部)

杰森·布伦南（Jason Brennan），亚利桑那大学博士，乔治敦大学麦克唐纳商学院副教授，擅长领域有经济学、伦理学和公共政策，主要著作有：《自由简史》（合著，布莱克威尔出版社，2010年）、《投票伦理学》（普林斯顿大学出版社，2011年）、《自由至上主义》（牛津大学出版社，2012年）、《为什么不是资本主义》（劳特里奇出版社，2014年），国内引进：《道德与商业利益》（上海社会科学院出版社，2017）。

Finger-wagging moralizers say the love of money is the root of all evil. They assume that making a lot of money requires exploiting others, and that the best way to wash off the resulting stain is to give a lot of it away. In Why It’s OK to Want to Be Rich, Jason Brennan shows that the moralizers have it backwards. He argues that, in general, the more money you make, the more y...(展开全部)

"Stop slacking off!" Your parents may have said this to you when you were deep into a video-gaming marathon. Or maybe your roommate said it to you when you were lounging on the couch scrolling through Instagram. You may have even said it to yourself on days you did nothing. But what is so bad about slacking? Could it be that there’s nothing bad about not making yourself useful?...(展开全部)

This is a book for scholars of Western philosophy who wish to engage with Buddhist philosophy, or who simply want to extend their philosophical horizons. It is also a book for scholars of Buddhist studies who want to see how Buddhist theory articulates with contemporary philosophy. Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to Philosophy articulates the basic metaphysical framework comm...(展开全部)

This is a book for scholars of Western philosophy who wish to engage with Buddhist philosophy, or who simply want to extend their philosophical horizons. It is also a book for scholars of Buddhist studies who want to see how Buddhist theory articulates with contemporary philosophy. Engaging Buddhism: Why it Matters to Philosophy articulates the basic metaphysical framework comm...(展开全部)