A cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of cryptocurrencies, will transform economies for better and worse. We think we’ve seen financial innovation. We bank from laptops and buy coffee with the wave of a phone. But these are minor miracles compared with the dizzying experiments now underway around the globe, as businesses and ...(展开全部)

A cutting-edge look at how accelerating financial change, from the end of cash to the rise of cryptocurrencies, will transform economies for better and worse. We think we’ve seen financial innovation. We bank from laptops and buy coffee with the wave of a phone. But these are minor miracles compared with the dizzying experiments now underway around the globe, as businesses and ...(展开全部)

乔纳森·马米兰是两个合著作者的化名。其中一位是宏观经济学家，一位是投资银行家。两人大学时相识但是多年失联。其中一位是剑桥大学经济学博士，苏黎世联邦理工学院经济学博士，他醉心从事学术研究，专精于研究银行宏观经济模型；另一位则具有当代金融与各种晦涩难懂投资产品的第一手经验。2011年两人因缘际会在伦敦再次会首，决定共同写一本书，内容是关于现代科技社会中金融体系如何产生重大变化。在《未来银行》这本书中两人相辅相成提供各自在金融业的研究与观点。

During the Global Financial Crisis in 2008, our financial infrastructure failed. Governments bailed out the very institutions that let the economy down. This episode spurred a serious rethink of our financial system. Does it make any sense that it takes two days to settle a stock transaction? Why do retailers, operating on razor thin margins, have to pay 3% for every customer c...(展开全部)

Why has median income stopped rising in the US? Why is the share of population that is working falling so rapidly? Why are our economy and society are becoming more unequal? A popular explanation right now is that the root cause underlying these symptoms is technological stagnation-- a slowdown in the kinds of ideas and inventions that bring progress and prosperity. In Race Aga...(展开全部)

Why has median income stopped rising in the US? Why is the share of population that is working falling so rapidly? Why are our economy and society are becoming more unequal? A popular explanation right now is that the root cause underlying these symptoms is technological stagnation-- a slowdown in the kinds of ideas and inventions that bring progress and prosperity. In Race Aga...(展开全部)

The nanotechnology revolution that will transform human health and longevity Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale—the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet—and introduces readers to the rapidly evolving nanotechnologies that are allowing us to manipulate the very building blocks of life. Sonia Contera gives...(展开全部)

The Industrial Revolution, powered by oil and other fossil fuels, is spiraling into a dangerous endgame. The price of gas and food are climbing, unemployment remains high, the housing market has tanked, consumer and government debt is soaring, and the recovery is slowing. Facing the prospect of a second collapse of the global economy, humanity is desperate for a sustainable eco...(展开全部)

Jeremy Rifkin, one of the most popular social thinkers of our time, is the bestselling author of The Empathic Civilization and The Age of Access. Kevin Foley has over thirty years' experience in radio and television broadcasting, commercial voice-overs, and audiobook narration. He has recorded over one hundred and fifty audiobooks.

乔尔•科特金，一位全球公认的世界经济和社会问题权威，新美国基金会”欧文高级研究员，《华盛顿邮报》、《华尔街杂志》、《美国企业界》和《洛杉矶时报》等名牌媒体炙手可热的专栏作家。在未来学、民族学和城市问题等研究领域受到各国广泛关注，颇具权威性。其著作往往一面世，即成经典书热卖，在全球声名远播。 他的另外四部著作包括《纽约时报》和《洛杉矶时报》排行榜上最畅销的《新地域和种族》。