Understanding Capitalism: Competition, Command, and Change, Fourth Edition, is an introduction to economics that explains how capitalism works, why it sometimes fails, and how it undergoes and brings about change. It discusses both the conventional economic model and the role of power in economic interactions. Understanding Capitalism analyzes how profit-seeking is a source of ...(展开全部)

Understanding Capitalism, 3/e provides an introduction to economics with extensive attention to the global economy, inequality, the information revolution, the exercise of power and the historical evolution of economic institutions and individual preferences. Its 'three dimensional approach' focuses on competition in markets, command in firms, governments and international rela...(展开全部)

Languages are constantly changing. New words are added to the English language every year, either borrowed or coined, and there is often railing against the 'decline' of the language by public figures. Some languages, such as French and Finnish, have academies to protect them against foreign imports. Yet languages are species-like constructs, which evolve naturally over time. M...(展开全部)

Languages are constantly changing. New words are added to the English language every year, either borrowed or coined, and there is often railing against the 'decline' of the language by public figures. Some languages, such as French and Finnish, have academies to protect them against foreign imports. Yet languages are species-like constructs, which evolve naturally over time. M...(展开全部)

You might describe Richard Saul Wurman as a provocateur, a pioneer, a creative genius. Inspirational, innovative, larger-than-life ... legendary, even. Others have. But the most apt description of this singular individual -- this architect, designer, creator of the celebrated TED Conference, and prolific author -- is storyteller. Springing to life from the mind of the world's o...(展开全部)

You might describe Richard Saul Wurman as a provocateur, a pioneer, a creative genius. Inspirational, innovative, larger-than-life ... legendary, even. Others have. But the most apt description of this singular individual -- this architect, designer, creator of the celebrated TED Conference, and prolific author -- is storyteller. Springing to life from the mind of the world's o...(展开全部)

Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is c...(展开全部)

Orthodox economics operates within a hypothesized world of perfect competition in which perfect consumers and firms act to bring about supposedly optimal outcomes. The discrepancies between this model and the reality it claims to address are then attributed to particular imperfections in reality itself. Most heterodox economists seize on this fact and insist that the world is c...(展开全部)

安瓦尔∙谢克（Anwar Shaikh），美国享有盛誉的政治经济学家，1971—1972年任教于哥伦比亚大学经济学系，1973年至今任教于纽约社会研究新学院。目前担任《剑桥经济学报》的联合主编，并在“新学院印度－中国研究所”担任高级研究员等职务。

作者簡介 強納森．坦伯Jonathan Tepper 倫敦總體經濟研究機構Variant Perception的創辦人，該機構的服務對象為避險基金和高資產客戶，坦伯曾任美國銀行（Bank of America）自營交易部門副總裁。 坦伯在北卡羅來納大學教堂山分校（University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill）分別以最優異及優異成績取得歷史系和經濟系學士學位。他在牛津大學（Oxford University）取得當代史碩士學位，且為羅德獎學金得主（Rhodes Scholar）。 坦伯是《Endgame終結大債時代》與《Code Red紅色警戒：危機下的財富生存之道》兩書的共同作者。 丹妮絲．赫恩Denise Hearn Variant Perception公司業務發展部主管。她擁有貝勒大學（Baylor Un...(展开全部)