Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives ...(展开全部)

玛丽安娜·马祖卡托（Mariana Mazzucato），经济学家，伦敦大学学院（UCL）创新与公共价值经济学教授，创新与公共目的研究所创始人兼所长。 她被美国《新共和》杂志评为“三位最重要的创新经济学家”之一；2014 年，获《新政治家》颁发的政治经济学斯佩里奖；2018年，获列昂季耶夫奖。 她也为世界各地的决策者提供有关创新和可持续增长的建议。2015年9月起，马祖卡托任英国工党七人经济顾问委员会委员，其他委员还包括明星经济学家托马斯·皮凯蒂和诺奖得主约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨。2018年起，担任经济合作与发展组织（OCDE）安赫尔·古里亚的特别顾问，2019年加入联合国发展政策委员会。

Who really creates wealth in our world? And how do we decide the value of what they do? At the heart of today's financial and economic crisis is a problem hiding in plain sight. In modern capitalism, value-extraction - the siphoning off of profits, from shareholders' dividends to bankers' bonuses - is rewarded more highly than value-creation: the productive process that drives ...(展开全部)

玛丽安娜·马祖卡托（Mariana Mazzucato），经济学家，伦敦大学学院（UCL）创新与公共价值经济学教授，创新与公共目的研究所创始人兼所长。 她被美国《新共和》杂志评为“三位最重要的创新经济学家”之一；2014 年，获《新政治家》颁发的政治经济学斯佩里奖；2018年，获列昂季耶夫奖。 她也为世界各地的决策者提供有关创新和可持续增长的建议。2015年9月起，马祖卡托任英国工党七人经济顾问委员会委员，其他委员还包括明星经济学家托马斯·皮凯蒂和诺奖得主约瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨。2018年起，担任经济合作与发展组织（OCDE）安赫尔·古里亚的特别顾问，2019年加入联合国发展政策委员会。

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。

The Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the necks of those who are condemned to produce it. Michael Herzfeld takes us inside a rich variety of small-town Cretan artisans' workshops to show how apprentices are systematically thwarted into learning by stealth and guile. This hars...(展开全部)

Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion—from professional ...(展开全部)

The term "tinker" calls to mind nomadic medieval vendors who operate on the fringe of formal society. Excluded from elite circles and characterized by an ability to leverage minimal resources, these tradesmen live and die by their ability to adapt their stores to the popular tastes of the day. In Delhi in the 21st century, an extensive network of informal marketplaces, or bazaa...(展开全部)