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)

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)

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)

"Illuminating...Combines tales of flamboyant promoters...with wry observations about the nature of man and markets." - New York Times Leon Levy was a legendary investor, a founder of Oppenheimer Funds and the guiding force behind Oppenheimer as well as several other investment ventures. Now, with Wall Street stuck in a prolonged rut, it's appropriate to turn for insights to a...(展开全部)

The roots of the mortgage bubble and the story of the Wall Street collapse-and the government's unprecedented response-from our most trusted business journalist. The End of Wall Street is a blow-by-blow account of America's biggest financial collapse since the Great Depression. Drawing on 180 interviews, including sit-downs with top government officials and Wall Street CE...(展开全部)

この巨大な壁は何? 人々を消失させる恐怖のWALLから逃げられるのか? 202X年のある夏の日、シコタン島(色丹島)の墓地で祈りを捧げていた ロシア人老夫婦が、丘の上から半透明のヴェールが近づいていることに気づく。不思議に思った二人が手をつないだままその壁に触れたとき、彼らの腕は「消去」した――。触れた人間の肉体のみが消去される「ウォール」と名付けられたこの巨大な壁は、1日に20km程度という遅さながら、やがて北海道に上陸、本州も射程に、徐々に西へと、人々を飲み込んでいく。本土上陸から首都圏到達まで1か月ほどしか猶予はない。真実とデマが入り混じりながら拡散され、日本はパニックに包まれていく。「ウォール」が暗示するものは、人類を奈落に突き落とす自然災害や疫病であり、経済格差によって人々を「分断」するものであり、無慈悲な「神の制裁」であり、極めて「平等な...(展开全部)

この巨大な壁は何? 人々を消失させる恐怖のWALLから逃げられるのか? 202X年のある夏の日、シコタン島(色丹島)の墓地で祈りを捧げていた ロシア人老夫婦が、丘の上から半透明のヴェールが近づいていることに気づく。不思議に思った二人が手をつないだままその壁に触れたとき、彼らの腕は「消去」した――。触れた人間の肉体のみが消去される「ウォール」と名付けられたこの巨大な壁は、1日に20km程度という遅さながら、やがて北海道に上陸、本州も射程に、徐々に西へと、人々を飲み込んでいく。本土上陸から首都圏到達まで1か月ほどしか猶予はない。真実とデマが入り混じりながら拡散され、日本はパニックに包まれていく。「ウォール」が暗示するものは、人類を奈落に突き落とす自然災害や疫病であり、経済格差によって人々を「分断」するものであり、無慈悲な「神の制裁」であり、極めて「平等な...(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)