Never has the World Bank’s relief work been more important than in the last nine years, when crises as huge as AIDS and the emergence of terrorist sanctuaries have threatened the prosperity of billions. This journalistic masterpiece by Washington Post columnist Sebastian Mallaby charts those controversial years at the Bank under the leadership of James Wolfensohn—the unstoppabl...(展开全部)

From Publishers Weekly As portrayed by Washington Post columnist Mallaby, the charming, powerful, Australian-born millionaire James Wolfensohn works to transform the World Bank, of which he is president, from a Cold War dinosaur obsessed with regulations and procedures to an organization that is leanly and meanly focused on getting underdeveloped countries onto the economic gri...(展开全部)

Appointed president of the World Bank in 1995, James Wolfensohn struck it like a whirlwind, determined to reinvent the institution founded by Franklin Roosevelt and his world War II allies. Wolfensohn embraced debt relief for the poorest countries, put taboo subjects such as corruption on the development agenda, and faced off the riotous critics of the antiglobalization movemen...(展开全部)

This spirited narrative challenges students to think about the meaning of American history. Thoughtful inclusion of the lives of everyday people, cultural diversity, work, and popular culture preserves the text's basic approach to American history as a story of all the American people.The Seventh Edition maintains the emphasis on the unique social history of the United States a...(展开全部)

A stimulating and inviting tour of modern economics centered on the story of one of its most important breakthroughs. In 1980, the twenty-four-year-old graduate student Paul Romer tackled one of the oldest puzzles in economics. Eight years later he solved it. This book tells the story of what has come to be called the new growth theory: the paradox identified by Adam Smith mor...(展开全部)

In this acclaimed work, Gilder offers an illuminating discussion of how to increase wealth and curtail poverty, arguing that most welfare programs only serve to keep the poor in poverty as victims of welfare dependency.

乔治·吉尔德（George Gilder），当今美国知名未来学家、经济学家，和尼古拉斯·尼葛洛庞帝和马歇尔·麦克卢汉一起，被誉为“数字时代的三大思想家”。毕业于哈佛大学，并曾服务于美国海军陆战队。 20世纪80年代，他成为供应学派经济学的代表人物，其作品《财富与贫困》被誉为里根革命的改革指南，在美国销售超过100万册；90年代，成为新经济的倡导者，曾被白宫授予“企业杰出奖”。在90年代中期的美国高科技领域，乔治?吉尔德就已经声名远播，经常与安迪?格罗夫、彼得·德鲁克等同场演讲。他还是《福布斯》《哈佛商业评论》等著名杂志的撰稿人，《企业之魂》《知识与权力》《通信革命》《货币之惑》等著作影响极大。

In this acclaimed work, Gilder offers an illuminating discussion of how to increase wealth and curtail poverty, arguing that most welfare programs only serve to keep the poor in poverty as victims of welfare dependency.

乔治·吉尔德（George Gilder），当今美国知名未来学家、经济学家，和尼古拉斯·尼葛洛庞帝和马歇尔·麦克卢汉一起，被誉为“数字时代的三大思想家”。毕业于哈佛大学，并曾服务于美国海军陆战队。 20世纪80年代，他成为供应学派经济学的代表人物，其作品《财富与贫困》被誉为里根革命的改革指南，在美国销售超过100万册；90年代，成为新经济的倡导者，曾被白宫授予“企业杰出奖”。在90年代中期的美国高科技领域，乔治?吉尔德就已经声名远播，经常与安迪?格罗夫、彼得·德鲁克等同场演讲。他还是《福布斯》《哈佛商业评论》等著名杂志的撰稿人，《企业之魂》《知识与权力》《通信革命》《货币之惑》等著作影响极大。

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