Oscar Sanchez-Sibony reveals the origins of our current era in the dissolution of the institutions that governed the architecture of energy and finance during the Bretton Woods era. He shows how, in the second half of the 1960s, the Soviet Union sought to dismantle the compartmentalized nature of Bretton Woods in order to escape its material ostracism and pave a path to global ...(展开全部)

Preface 1. Orthodoxy and Heresy 2. The Rules of Global Finance: Causes and Consequences 3. Capital Ruled: Embedded Liberalism and the Regulation of Finance 4. The Paris Consensus: European Unification and the Freedom of Capital 5. Privilege and Obligation: The OECD and Its Code of Liberalization 6. Freedom and Its Risks: The IMF and the Capital Account 7. A Common Language of R...(展开全部)

雅尼斯·瓦鲁法克斯（Yanis Varoufakis，1961— ），希腊当代著名政治经济学家，主要研究领域为政治经济学和博弈论，曾先后任教埃塞克斯大学、东英吉利大学、悉尼大学、雅典大学、德克萨斯大学，现为雅典大学经济学教授。2015年1月出任希腊财政部长，7月辞职。他还著有《博弈论批判导引》、《现代政治经济学》（合著）等作品。

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession―but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the...(展开全部)

The "rivetingly told" (Times Literary Supplement) story of the CIA's Cold War cultural operations, short-listed for the Guardian First Book Award. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders presents for the first time the shocking evidence that the CIA infiltrated every niche of the cultural sphere during the postwar years. In a "hammer-blow of a book" (The Spectator, Lo...(展开全部)

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession―but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description New chapter by Soros on the secrets to his success along with a new Preface and Introduction. New Foreword by renowned economist Paul Volcker "An extraordinary ... inside look into the decision-making process of the most successful money manager of our time. Fantastic." - "The Wall Street Journal". George Soros is unquestionably one of the most powerful...(展开全部)

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “The best true spy story I have ever read.”—JOHN LE CARRÉ The celebrated author of Double Cross and Rogue Heroes returns with his greatest spy story yet, a thrilling Americans-era tale of Oleg Gordievsky, the Russian whose secret work helped hasten the end of the Cold War. If anyone could be considered a Russian counterpart to the infamous British doub...(展开全部)

The first in-depth account of the historic diplomatic agreement that served as a blueprint for ending the Cold War The Helsinki Final Act was a watershed of the Cold War. Signed by thirty-five European and North American leaders at a summit in Finland in the summer of 1975, the agreement presented a vision for peace based on common principles and cooperation across the Iron Cur...(展开全部)