What role, exactly, do skill and luck play in our successes and failures? Some games, like roulette and the lottery, are pure luck. Others, like chess, exist at the other end of the spectrum, relying almost wholly on the skill of the players. But in every other domain--from business, to investing, to sports--skill and luck seem almost hopelessly entangled. In his provocative ne...(展开全部)

What role, exactly, do skill and luck play in our successes and failures? Some games, like roulette and the lottery, are pure luck. Others, like chess, exist at the other end of the spectrum, relying almost wholly on the skill of the players. But in every other domain--from business, to investing, to sports--skill and luck seem almost hopelessly entangled. In his provocative ne...(展开全部)

【美】罗伯特·弗兰克 • 行为经济学家，康奈尔大学约翰逊管理学院经济学和管理学教授，《纽约时报》经济评论专栏特约评论员。 • 著有《牛奶可乐经济学》系列畅销书。与美联储主席本•伯南克（Ben Bernanke）合著的《宏观经济学原理》和《微观经济学原理》成为“全世界最受欢迎的经济学教材”之一。 • 主张经济学应该是一门根植于经验和观察的社会科学，而不是以数学为核心的硬科学。致力于把经济学从数学中解放出来，并为其在人们的日常生活中生根发芽提供无限的能量。

How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that...(展开全部)

How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that...(展开全部)

【美】罗伯特·弗兰克 • 行为经济学家，康奈尔大学约翰逊管理学院经济学和管理学教授，《纽约时报》经济评论专栏特约评论员。 • 著有《牛奶可乐经济学》系列畅销书。与美联储主席本•伯南克（Ben Bernanke）合著的《宏观经济学原理》和《微观经济学原理》成为“全世界最受欢迎的经济学教材”之一。 • 主张经济学应该是一门根植于经验和观察的社会科学，而不是以数学为核心的硬科学。致力于把经济学从数学中解放出来，并为其在人们的日常生活中生根发芽提供无限的能量。

The Renaissance marked a turning point in Europe’s relationship to Arabic thought. On the one hand, Dag Nikolaus Hasse argues, it was the period in which important Arabic traditions reached the peak of their influence in Europe. On the other hand, it is the time when the West began to forget, and even actively suppress, its debt to Arabic culture. Success and Suppression traces...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 The Entrepreneurial Investor will inspire you to treat investing like a business and to think of yourself as an owner. Through solid examples and a light narrative, Paul Orfalea skillfully explores the essence of the entrepreneurial investor, which includes balancing the art and science of this discipline, and viewing investing itself as a business. Along the way, h...(展开全部)

A penetrating examination of the central issues, trends, and developments of the coming decades and the problems and opportunities they present to America and the world.

This book is a study of ancient views about "moral luck." It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made a profound contribution to these questions, yet neither the problems nor the Greek...(展开全部)