Paul Collier's "The Bottom Billion" had a profound impact on our thinking about global poverty. Now, with "The Plundered Planet", he has set himself an even more ambitious goal: to reconcile the immediate needs of the world's burgeoning population with a sustainable environmental future. Is it possible to continue to feed and clothe ourselves without despoiling the planet for f...(展开全部)

How can we help poorer countries become richer without harming the planet? Is there a way of reconciling prosperity with nature? World-renowned economist Paul Collier offers smart, surprising and above all realistic answers to this dilemma. Steering a path between the desires of unchecked profiteering and the romantic views of environmentalists, he explores creative ways to dea...(展开全部)

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier） 牛津大学经济学教授，非洲经济研究中心主任和圣安东尼学院院士；曾任世界银行研发中心主任，英国政府非洲委员会顾问；非洲经济问题的权威专家之一，被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志列入“全球顶尖思想家”。 曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖（The Lionel Gelber Prize）、克林纳国际书卷奖（Corine- Internationaler Buchpreis）、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖（Arthur Ross Book Award）及埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖（Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize）等。 除备受赞誉的《最底层的十亿人》（The Bottom Billion）外，他还出版了《战争、枪炮和选举：危险地区的民主》（Wars，Guns，an...(展开全部)

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier） 牛津大学经济学教授，非洲经济研究中心主任和圣安东尼学院院士；曾任世界银行研发中心主任，英国政府非洲委员会顾问；非洲经济问题的权威专家之一，被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志列入“全球顶尖思想家”。 曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖（The Lionel Gelber Prize）、克林纳国际书卷奖（Corine- Internationaler Buchpreis）、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖（Arthur Ross Book Award）及埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖（Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize）等。 除备受赞誉的《最底层的十亿人》（The Bottom Billion）外，他还出版了《战争、枪炮和选举：危险地区的民主》（Wars，Guns，an...(展开全部)

保罗·科利尔（Paul Collier） 牛津大学经济学教授，非洲经济研究中心主任和圣安东尼学院院士；曾任世界银行研发中心主任，英国政府非洲委员会顾问；非洲经济问题的权威专家之一，被《外交政策》（Foreign Policy）杂志列入“全球顶尖思想家”。 曾获莱昂内尔·吉尔伯奖（The Lionel Gelber Prize）、克林纳国际书卷奖（Corine- Internationaler Buchpreis）、亚瑟·罗斯图书奖（Arthur Ross Book Award）及埃斯托利尔全球事务杰出著作奖（Estoril Global Issues Distinguished Book Prize）等。 除备受赞誉的《最底层的十亿人》（The Bottom Billion）外，他还出版了《战争、枪炮和选举：危险地区的民主》（Wars，Guns，an...(展开全部)

Life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down — all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container ...(展开全部)

Life is getting better—and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are up; disease, child mortality, and violence are down — all across the globe. Though the world is far from perfect, necessities and luxuries alike are getting cheaper; population growth is slowing; Africa is following Asia out of poverty; the Internet, the mobile phone, and container ...(展开全部)

From the editors of Sight Unseen, an anti-decorating book that champions a new approach to interiors-simply surrounding yourself with objects you love. "A refreshing, and necessary, counternarrative to shop-this-look consumerism and the aesthetic sameness that afflicts so many interiors.”-Vulture In the modern home, it matters less whether your interior is perfectly appointed a...(展开全部)

"There is terror in numbers," writes Darrell Huff in How to Lie with Statistics. And nowhere does this terror translate to blind acceptance of authority more than in the slippery world of averages, correlations, graphs, and trends. Huff sought to break through "the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind" with this slim volume, first published in 1954....(展开全部)

This book introduces the reader to the niceties of samples (random or stratified random), averages (mean, median or modal), errors (probable, standard or unintentional), graphs, indexes, and other tools of democratic persuasion.