The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective is a "must" for all scholars of economics and economic history, while the casual reader will find much of fascinating interest. It is also a monumental work of reference. The book has several objectives. The first is a pioneering effort to quantify the economic performance of nations over the very long term. The second is to identify ...(展开全部)

Book Description The Pulitzer Prize-wimming author of The Prize joins a leading expert on the global economy to present an incisive narrative of the risks and opportunities that are emerging as the balance of power shifts around the world between governments and markets -- and the battle over globalization comes front and center. The Commanding Heights is essential for underst...(展开全部)

The Commanding Heights is about the most powerful political and economic force in the world today -- the epic struggle between government and the marketplace that has, over the last twenty years, turned the world upside down and dramatically transformed our lives. Now, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Prize joins with a leading expert on the new marketplace to explain t...(展开全部)

History has been a crucial element in underpinning national identities across the globe for a very long time. Each construction of national identity is incorporating a sense of a long, proud and preferably unbroken history. This book brings together experts on national history writing from all five continents to discuss the role of history in the making of national identities i...(展开全部)

范赞登，荷兰乌特列支大学经济史教授，国际社会史研究所高级研究员，并担任世界经济史协会的主席。他有大量的作品出版，包括荷兰、欧洲和印尼的经济史。

Why did the Industrial Revolution happen in Western Europe? Was it a sudden acceleration of the European economy, or should we look at specific institutions arising in Western Europe since the Middle Ages? This book puts these big questions of European economic history in a global perspective, deals with the institutions that developed in Europe, and measures their relative eff...(展开全部)

摆在我们经济前方的路已经没有疑问了。 创造你自己的经济：在经济危机来临时，我们许多人都会感到比以前更加无奈，但在这个纷乱的世界里，发挥我们每个个人的力量才是再次走向繁荣的正确道路。你不能错过这个觉醒。 著名的行为经济学家和专栏作家泰勒·考恩(Tyler Cowen)向我们展示了，我们业已超级网络化、系统化的世界正在如何改变我们的思考方式。不管是在推特(Twitter)上写微博客，还是在脸谱(Facebook)上交朋友，我们都是在打破传统的知识、信息的存在方式，使其变成为越来越小的碎片信息，然后再根据我们自己的具体需求，在思维(以及计算机)中组织或重新组织这些碎片信息。我们在iTunes(苹果公司的在线商店)购买单首的歌曲，并且自行编排其在播放列表中的顺序，这和以往由制作人和音乐家预先安排好的专辑形式完全不同。就像考恩向我们展示的那样，我们现在已经可以...(展开全部)

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences ...(展开全部)

In April 1956, a refitted oil tanker carried fifty-eight shipping containers from Newark to Houston. From that modest beginning, container shipping developed into a huge industry that made the boom in global trade possible. The Box tells the dramatic story of the container's creation, the decade of struggle before it was widely adopted, and the sweeping economic consequences of...(展开全部)