In this wonderful autobiography-funny, moving, exciting, reflective, history haunted-a man writes in valedictory to his striving and achieving twenties and thirties, and to this nation's sunny years under Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy. That the man is Russell Baker, author of the classic Growing Up, assures us of the treasures to be mined in this successor volume. From newsbo...(展开全部)

Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of t...(展开全部)

阿比吉特·班纳吉（Abhijit V.Banerjee） 2019年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，美国麻省理工学院福特基金会国际经济学教授。曾就读于印度加尔各答大学、贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁大学及美国哈佛大学；曾任发展经济学分析研究局局长、美国艺术科学研究院及计量经济学会研究员、古根海姆基金会及艾尔弗雷德·斯隆基金会研究员。获2009年度印孚瑟斯（Infosys）奖等多个奖项，曾任世界银行和印度政府等多家组织机构荣誉顾问。 埃斯特·迪弗洛（Esther Duflo） 2019年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，美国麻省理工学院经济系阿卜杜勒·拉蒂夫·贾米尔扶贫与发展经济学教授；曾就读于法国巴黎高等师范学院和美国麻省理工学院；获大量荣誉：2010年度约翰·贝茨·克拉克奖（“美国40岁以下最佳经济学家奖”），2009年度麦克阿瑟“天才”奖学金，《经济学人》杂志“八大杰出经济学家”之一...(展开全部)

阿比吉特·班纳吉（Abhijit V.Banerjee） 2019年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，美国麻省理工学院福特基金会国际经济学教授。曾就读于印度加尔各答大学、贾瓦哈拉尔·尼赫鲁大学及美国哈佛大学；曾任发展经济学分析研究局局长、美国艺术科学研究院及计量经济学会研究员、古根海姆基金会及艾尔弗雷德·斯隆基金会研究员。获2009年度印孚瑟斯（Infosys）奖等多个奖项，曾任世界银行和印度政府等多家组织机构荣誉顾问。 埃斯特·迪弗洛（Esther Duflo） 2019年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，美国麻省理工学院经济系阿卜杜勒·拉蒂夫·贾米尔扶贫与发展经济学教授；曾就读于法国巴黎高等师范学院和美国麻省理工学院；获大量荣誉：2010年度约翰·贝茨·克拉克奖（“美国40岁以下最佳经济学家奖”），2009年度麦克阿瑟“天才”奖学金，《经济学人》杂志“八大杰出经济学家”之一...(展开全部)

Two prize-winning economists show how economics, when done right, can help us solve the thorniest social and political problems of our day. Figuring out how to deal with today's critical economic problems is perhaps the great challenge of our time. Much greater than space travel or perhaps even the next revolutionary medical breakthrough, what is at stake is the whole idea of t...(展开全部)

Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire. But incentives per se are not really the ...(展开全部)

Should the idea of economic man—the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus—determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding “no.” Policies that follow from this paradigm, he shows, may “crowd out” ethical and generous motives and thus backfire. But incentives per se are not really the ...(展开全部)

Nobody wants to believe that Grace Peltier committed suicide: not Curtis, her father; not former U.S. Senator Jack Mercier; and not private detective Charlie Parker, who has been hired to investigate the circumstances of her death. But when a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of the Aroostook Baptists, a religious community that disappeared almost for...(展开全部)

John Connolly's "Every Dead Thing" and "Dark Hollow" were international bestsellers. Now the "compulsively readable" "(Publishers Weekly)" Connolly returns to heart-pounding form with a crime novel that combines sinister menace with superb style.THE KILLING KINDWhen the discovery of a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the grim truth behind the disappearance of a religious co...(展开全部)

Did Grace Peltier commit suicide? When a mass grave in northern Maine reveals the final resting place of a religious community that disappeared almost forty years earlier, private detective Charlie Parker, hired to investigate the circumstances of her death, realises that their deaths and the violent passing of Grace Peltier are part of the same mystery, one that has its roots ...(展开全部)