The numbers are staggering: China spent $40 billion to host the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing and Russia spent $50 billion for the 2014 Sochi Winter Games. Brazil's total expenditures are thought to have been as much as $20 billion for the World Cup this summer and Qatar, which will be the site of the 2022 World Cup, is estimating that it will spend $200 billion. How did...(展开全部)

Author Andrew Zimbalist looks beyond the headlines of two of the world’s most beloved sporting events: the Olympics and the World Cup. In the expanded and updated edition of his bestselling book, Circus Maximus: The Economic Gamble Behind Hosting the Olympics and the World Cup, Zimbalist tackles the bogus claim that the cities chosen to host these high-profile sporting events e...(展开全部)

保罗·萨宾（Paul Sabin） 耶鲁大学历史系教授，主要讲授美国在环境与能源、政治与法律方面的历史。进入耶鲁之前，曾任非营利组织环境领导项目的创办执行总监。著有《较量：乐观的经济学与悲观的生态学》和《原油政治：加利福尼亚原油市场》。

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity and famine - wit...(展开全部)

In 1980, the iconoclastic economist Julian Simon challenged celebrity biologist Paul Ehrlich to a bet. Their wager on the future prices of five metals captured the public's imagination as a test of coming prosperity or doom. Ehrlich, author of the landmark book The Population Bomb, predicted that rising populations would cause overconsumption, resource scarcity and famine - wit...(展开全部)

For more than a decade, Japan's dismal economy -- which has bounced from deflationary collapse to fitful recovery and back to collapse -- has been the biggest obstacle to economic growth. Why has the world's second largest economy been unable to save itself? Why has a country, whose financial might in the 1980s was the most feared force on the globe, become the sick man of the ...(展开全部)

For more than a decade, Japan's dismal economy -- which has bounced from deflationary collapse to fitful recovery and back to collapse -- has been the biggest obstacle to economic growth. Why has the world's second largest economy been unable to save itself? Why has a country, whose financial might in the 1980s was the most feared force on the globe, become the sick man of the ...(展开全部)

《地球:我们输不起的实验室》针对地球环境与人类发展的话题，融会了物理学、生物学和社会科学的知识，从气候与生命的进化，到温室效应，全面阐述了地球与人类的关系，以及解决全球环境危机的对策。

《地球:我们输不起的实验室》针对地球环境与人类发展的话题，融会了物理学、生物学和社会科学的知识，从气候与生命的进化，到温室效应，全面阐述了地球与人类的关系，以及解决全球环境危机的对策。

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