How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government Today, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluation process with scientific rigor...(展开全部)

In The Tyranny of Experts, renowned economist William Easterly examines our failing efforts to fight global poverty, and argues that the "expert approved" top-down approach to development has not only made little lasting progress, but has proven a convenient rationale for decades of human rights violations perpetrated by colonialists, postcolonial dictators, and US and UK forei...(展开全部)

This is a brilliant study on the nature of choice, and how limitless freedom can lead to despair. We are encouraged from all sides to view our lives as being full of choices. Like the products on a supermarket shelf, our careers, our relationships, our bodies, our very identities seem to be there for the choosing. But paradoxically this seeming freedom to choose can create extr...(展开全部)

These are dangerous times for democracy. We live in an age of winners and losers, where the odds are stacked in favour of the already fortunate. Stalled social mobility and entrenched inequality give the lie to the promise that "you can make it if you try". And the consequence is a brew of anger and frustration that has fuelled populist protest, with the triumph of Brexit and e...(展开全部)

威廉·伊斯特利（William Easterly），世界银行前首席经济学家,目前为纽约大学经济学系教授、纽约大学发展研究院院长。被《外交政策》杂志评为全球100名最杰出的公共知识分子，全球最多引用次数的100名经济学家之一。著有全球畅销书《白种人的负担》。

Over the last century, global poverty has largely been viewed as a technical problem that merely requires the right expert” solutions. Yet all too often, experts recommend solutions that fix immediate problems without addressing the systemic political factors that created them in the first place. Further, they produce an accidental collusion with benevolent autocrats,” leaving ...(展开全部)

This work is Strauss' reading of Xenophon's dialogue, "Hiero" or "Tyrannicus", in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. This edition includes a translation of the dialogue, a critique of the commentary by the French philosopher Alexandre Kojeve, Strauss' restatement of his position in light of Kojeve's comm...(展开全部)

Applied econometrics, known to aficionados as 'metrics, is the original data science. 'Metrics encompasses the statistical methods economists use to untangle cause and effect in human affairs. Through accessible discussion and with a dose of kung fu–themed humor, Mastering 'Metrics presents the essential tools of econometric research and demonstrates why econometrics is excitin...(展开全部)

乔舒亚·安格里斯特 Joshua D. Angrist 美国麻省理工学院Ford经济学教授，美国国民经济研究局研究员，美国艺术与科学院院士，计量经济学会会员。曾任教于以色列希伯来大学和美国哈佛大学。主要教授劳动经济学和计量经济学，研究领域广泛，涉及教育经济学、社会实验、公共项目的计量经济学方法研究以及政策评估。 约恩-斯特芬·皮施克 Jorn-steffen Pischke 英国伦敦政治经济学院（LSE）教授，LSE经济表现中心资深研究员。主要教授劳动经济学和计量经济学，研究领域集中于教育政策评估，包括义务教育的收入回报、学期长短对学生成绩的影响，以及班级成员间的影响效应等。

Effectively measuring the usability of any product requires choosing the right metric, applying it, and effectively using the information it reveals. Measuring the User Experience provides the first single source of practical information to enable usability professionals and product developers to do just that. Authors Tullis and Albert organize dozens of metrics into six categ...(展开全部)