With $4.5 trillion in total assets, the People's Bank of China now surpasses the U.S. Federal Reserve as the world's biggest central bank. The Rise of the People's Bank of China investigates how this increasingly authoritative institution grew from a Leninist party-state that once jealously guarded control of banking and macroeconomic policy. Relying on interviews with key play...(展开全部)

Climate change differs from any other problem that, as collective humanity, we face today. If it goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people, and for many policy-makers too, it tends to be a 'back of the mind' issue. We recognise its importance and even its urgency, but for the most part it is swamped by more immed...(展开全部)

Climate change differs from any other problem that, as collective humanity, we face today. If it goes unchecked, the consequences are likely to be catastrophic for human life on earth. Yet for most people, and for many policy-makers too, it tends to be a 'back of the mind' issue. We recognise its importance and even its urgency, but for the most part it is swamped by more immed...(展开全部)

雷蒙·德鲁弗 Raymond de Roover 1904–1972 . . 中世纪经济史泰斗，第一个将商业技术分析引入商业史研究的经济史家。哈佛商学院教授，比利时皇家科学院外籍院士。 . 德鲁弗原籍比利时，曾在银行和航运公司任会计主管。后移民美国，1938年在哈佛大学获得MBA学 位，1943年在芝加哥大学获得博士学位，专攻经济史。五年后出版了第一本关于美第奇银行的专著，获美国历史学会奖。 . 1949年，美第奇银行的机密账簿重见天日。借助这些珍贵资料，德鲁弗倾十年之力写成了这部《美第奇银行的兴衰》，1963年由哈佛大学出版社出版。此书问世后获得学术界高度评价，被视为里程碑意义的学术经典、关于美第奇银行最权威的著作。德鲁弗借此确立学术地位，在哈佛商学院获得教职。 . 1972年逝世后，德鲁弗的这部名作多次重印，是今人了解中世纪和文艺复兴经济史的必读...(展开全部)

When, how, and why did the state enterprise system of modern China take shape? The conventional argument is that China borrowed its economic system and development strategy wholesale from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. In an important new interpretation, Morris Bian shows instead that the basic institutional arrangement of state-owned enterprise - bureaucratic governance, manag...(展开全部)

When, how, and why did the state enterprise system of modern China take shape? The conventional argument is that China borrowed its economic system and development strategy wholesale from the Soviet Union in the 1950s. In an important new interpretation, Morris Bian shows instead that the basic institutional arrangement of state-owned enterprise - bureaucratic governance, manag...(展开全部)

[英]丹•科纳汉，金融专家，作家。在伦敦金融城工作十几年，是投资管理、公司融资、股票市场的专家。进入金融界之前，他曾在《每日邮报》做过五年的记者，并担任《经济学人》和《观察家》的撰稿人。 为写作本书，他历时三年研究英格兰银行，采访了众多英格兰银行过去和现任的高管，以及诸多英国财政部、美联储和伦敦金融城里的风云人物，写成了这本真实呈现央行运作的独特作品。 为了中文版的出版，作者在原版基础上修订了部分内文，并增补了约20%的内容。

From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of possessing the largest economy in the world. Its path from the 1949 revolution to the present has been filled with twists and turns, including internal upheavals, a dramatic break ...(展开全部)

From its founding 65 years ago, the People's Republic of China has evolved from an important yet chaotic and impoverished state whose power was more latent than real into a great power on the cusp of possessing the largest economy in the world. Its path from the 1949 revolution to the present has been filled with twists and turns, including internal upheavals, a dramatic break ...(展开全部)