本书内容分产业投资基金概述，产业生命周期与产业投资基金，产业投资基金的产生与发展，产业投资基金类型的比较，产业投资基金的运作机制，产业投资基金的评估等十章。

Of the twenty most costly catastrophes since 1970, more than half have occurred since 2001. Is this an omen of what the 21st century will be? How might we behave in this new, uncertain and more dangerous environment? Will our actions be rational or irrational? A select group of scholars, innovators, and Nobel Laureates was asked to address challenges to rational decision making both in our day-to-day life and in the face of catastrophic threats such as climate changes, natural disasters, technological hazards, and human malevolence. At the crossroads of decision sciences, behavioral and neuro-economics, psychology, management, insurance, and finance, their contributions aim to introduce readers to the latest thinking and discoveries. The Irrational Economist challenges the conventional wisdom about how to make the right decisions in the new era we have entered. It reveals a profound revolution in thinking as understood by some of the greatest minds in our day, and underscores the growing role and

This 2006 textbook discusses the fundamentals and applicationsof statistical thermodynamics for beginning graduate students inthe physical and engineering sciences. Building on the prototypicalMaxwell–Boltzmann method and maintaining a step-by-step developmentof the subject, this book assumes the reader has no previousexposure to statistics, quantum mechanics or spectroscopy. The bookbegins with the essentials of statistical thermodynamics, pauses torecover needed knowledge from quantum mechanics and spectroscopy,and then moves on to applications involving ideal gases, the solidstate and radiation. A full introduction to kinetic theory isprovided, including its applications to transport phenomena andchemical kinetics. A highlight of the textbook is its discussion ofmodern applications, such as laser-based diagnostics. The bookconcludes with a thorough presentation of the ensemble method,featuring its use for real gases. Numerous examples and promptedhomework problems enrich the text.

Based on the author's graduate course taught over many years inseveral physics departments, this book takes a 'reductionist' viewof statistical mechanics, while describing the main ideas andmethods underlying its applications. It implicitly assumes that thephysics of complex systems as observed is connected to fundamentalphysical laws represented at the molecular level by Newtonianmechanics or quantum mechanics. Organised into three parts, thefirst section describes the fundamental principles of equilibriumstatistical mechanics. The next section describes applications tophases of increasing density and order: gases, liquids and solids;it also treats phase transitions. The final section deals withdynamics, including a careful account of hydrodynamic theories andlinear response theory. This textbook is suitable for a one yeargraduate course in statistical mechanics for physicists, chemistsand chemical engineers. Problems are included following eachchapter, with solutions to selected problems provided.

Mikael H?rnqvist challenges us to rethink the overall meaningand importance of Machiavelli's political thinking. Machiavelli andEmpire combines close textual analysis of The Prince and TheDiscourses with a broad historical approach, to establish theimportance of empire-building and imperial strategy inMachiavelli's thought. The primary context of Machiavelli's work,H?rnqvist argues, is not the mirror-for-princes genre or medievaland Renaissance republicanism in general, but a tradition ofFlorentine imperialist republicanism dating back to the latethirteenth-century, based on the twin notions of liberty at homeand empire abroad. Weaving together themes and topics drawn fromcontemporary Florentine political debate, Medicean ritual andRenaissance triumphalism, this study explores how Machiavelli inhis chancery writings and theoretical works promoted the longstanding aspirations of Florence to become a great and expandingempire, modelled on the example of the ancient Roman republic. Thisis a distinctive an

Will the sun set on the greatest currency in the history ofthe world? For decades the dollar has been the undisputed champ. It’s not onlythe currency of America but much of the world as well, the fuel ofglobal prosperity. As the superengine of the world’s onlysuperpower, it’s accepted everywhere. When an Asian company tradeswith South America, those transactions are done in dollars, thecurrency of international business. But for how much longer? Economists fear America is digging a holewith an economy based on massive borrowing and huge deficits thatcloud the dollar’s future. Will the buck be eclipsed by the euro oreven China’s renminbi? Should Americans worry when the value of themighty U.S. dollar sinks to par with the Canadian “loonie”? Craig Karmin’s in-depth “biography” of the dollar explores theseissues. It also examines the green-back’s history, allure, andunique role as a catalyst for globalization, and how the Americanbuck became so almighty that $ became perhaps the most po

What Freakonomics does for understanding the economy, The J Curve does for better understanding how nations behave. Bremmer's tour of the nations of the world -- our friends, our foes, and others in between -- shows us how to see the world fresh, get rid of shopworn attitudes, and discover a new and useful way of thinking.

Deeply romantic andextraordinarily suspenseful, TWILIGHT, NEW MOON, ECLIPSE andBREAKING DAWN capture the struggle between defying our instinctsand satisfying our desires. This stunning set makes the perfectgift for fans of this bestselling vampire love story. The set willgive existing fans a focus for their devotion and new fans will beentranced as the love story between Bella and the Vampire Edwarddevelops from tentative beginnings in Twilight to its stunningconclusion in the publishing phenomenon that is Breaking Dawn.

This 1992 book examines alternative methods for achievingoptimality without all the apparatus of economic planning (such asinformation retrieval, computation of solutions, and separateimplementation systems), or a vain reliance on sufficiently'perfect' competition. All rely entirely on the self-interest ofeconomic agents and voluntary contract. The author considersmethods involving feedback iterative controls which require theprior selection of a 'criterion function', but no prior calculationof optimal quantities. The target is adjusted as the results foreach step become data for the criterion function. Implementation isbuilt in by the incentive structure, and all controls rely onconsistency with the self-interest of individuals. Theapplicability of all the methods is shown to be independent of theform of ownership of enterprises: examples are given for industrieswhich are wholly privately owned, wholly nationalized, mixed andlabour-managed.

本书内容分产业投资基金概述，产业生命周期与产业投资基金，产业投资基金的产生与发展，产业投资基金类型的比较，产业投资基金的运作机制，产业投资基金的评估等十章。

Capitalism in the twentieth century has been marked by periodsof persistent bad performance alternating with episodes of goodperformance. Cornwall and Cornwall draw upon Schumpterian,Institutional and Keynesian economics to investigate how far theseswings can be explained as integral to capitalist development. Theauthors consider the macroeconomic record of the developedcapitalist economies over the past 100 years (including rates ofgrowth, inflation and unemployment) as well as the interaction ofeconomic variables with the changing structural features of theeconomy in the course of industrialization and transformation.

There is a vigorous debate about the merits of globalisationfor developing countries. Based on numerous focus-group discussionsand over 10,000 interviews, this book studies economic and culturalopenness from the perspective of the public in four developing or'transitional' countries: Vietnam, (South) Korea, the CzechRepublic and Ukraine (both before and after the Orange Revolution).It finds many supporters of opening up, but also many who arediscontented with its downsides and who expect states to tackle theexploitation and unfairness that accompany it. Among the mostfervent enemies of openness there is support not just for peacefulpublic protest to tackle the problems it brings, but for violenceor sabotage. The methodology provides a unique opportunity for thepublic in developing countries to 'speak with their own voices'about markets and openness – and highlights the subtlety,ambiguity, tensions, conflicts and emotion that statistics alonefail to capture.

This is the first textbook in microeconomics written exclusivelyfor MBA students. McKenzie/Lee minimizes attention to mathematicsand maximizes attention to intuitive economic thinking. The text isstructured clearly and accessibly: Part I of each chapter outlinesthe basic theory and Part II applies this basic theory tomanagement issues. 'Perspective' sections in each chapter provide anew line of argument or different take on a business or policyissue, and carefully chosen topics and review questions aredesigned to spark lively and instructive debates. Throughout thebook, McKenzie and Lee aim to infuse students with the economic wayof thinking in the context of a host of problems that MBA students,as future managers of real-world firms, will find relevant to theircareer goals.

A collection of Peter Ferdinand Drucker's legendary essays onbusiness, management, economics and society, written between 1972and 1980. They reflect an international viewpoint and are concernedwith what Drucker called "social ecology" and especiallyinstitutions - governments, organized science, business orschools. This hardcover release is being published as part of the HarvardBusiness Press Drucker Library.

This book, based largely on the Cambridge World History ofFood, provides a look at the globalization of food from the days ofthe hunter-gatherers to present-day genetically modified plants andanimals. The establishment of agriculture and the domestication ofanimals in Eurasia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas are alltreated in some detail along with the subsequent diffusion offarming cultures through the activities of monks, missionaries,migrants, imperialists, explorers, traders, and raiders. Muchattention is given to the 'Columbian Exchange' of plants andanimals that brought revolutionary demographic change to everycorner of the planet and led ultimately to the European occupationof Australia and New Zealand as well as the rest of Oceania. Finalchapters deal with the impact of industrialization on foodproduction, processing, and distribution, and modern-dayfood-related problems ranging from famine to obesity to geneticallymodified food to fast food.

Sixty-three stellar academics, consultants, and practitioners look at the future of human resources The follow-up to the bestselling Tomorrow's HR Management (978-0-471-19714-0), this book presents an international panel of expert contributors who offer their views on the state of HR and what to expect in the future. Topics covered include HR as a decision science, understanding and managing people, creating and adapting organizational culture, the effects of globalization, collaborative ventures, and investing in the next generation. Like its bestselling predecessor before it, The Future of Human Resource Management offers the very best thinking on the future of HR from the most respected leaders in the field.

In the classroom, ABC looks like a great way to manage acompany’s resources. But many executives who have tried toimplement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have foundthe approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveysthat companies used to estimate resources required for businessactivities proved too time-consuming, expensive, and irritating toemployees. This book shows you how to implement time-driven activity-basedcosting (TDABC), an easier and more powerful way to implement ABC.You can now estimate directly the resource demands imposed by eachbusiness transaction, product, or customer. The payoff? You spendless time and money obtaining and maintaining TDABC data—and moretime addressing problems that TDABC reveals, such as inefficientprocesses, unprofitable products and customers, and excesscapacity. The authors also show how to use TDABC to link strategicplanning to operational budgeting, to enhance the due diligenceprocess for mergers and acquisitions, and to supp

There is an ongoing perception that public accountability inmodern-day governance is in 'crisis', caused by globalization andthe increasing power of private economic interests. This bookresponds to that idea, providing the most comprehensive survey todate of how different organizations hold persons acting in thepublic interest to account, and the various problems they face. Thebook shows how key issues, such as public-mindedness, democracy andresponsibility, and structures, such as bureaucracy, markets andtransparency, adopt radically different and sometimes contradictoryinterpretations when viewed from different experientialperspectives. It also demonstrates how underlying all this are corecommunities of experiences that bind these diverse interpretationsand perspectives into a complex web of mutual interaction andinfluence. The book includes studies not only of Anglo-Americanexperiences, but also of the experiences of foreign andtransnational organizations: NGOs, transnational resistancemovements, th

This unique text uses Microsoft Excel workbooks toinstruct students. In addition to explaining fundamental conceptsin microeconomic theory, readers acquire a great deal ofsophisticated Excel skills and gain the practical mathematicsneeded to succeed in advanced courses. In addition to theinnovative pedagogical approach, the book features explicitlyrepeated use of a single central methodology, the economicapproach. Students learn how economists think and how to think likean economist. With concrete, numerical examples and novel, engagingapplications, interest for readers remains high as live graphs anddata respond to manipulation by the user. Finally, clear writingand active learning are features sure to appeal to modernpractitioners and their students. The website accompanying the textis found at www.depauw.edu/learn/microexcel .

In mainstream economic theory money functions as an instrumentfor the circulation of commodities or for keeping a stock of liquidwealth. In neither case is it considered fundamental to theproduction of goods or the distribution of income. Augusto Grazianichallenges traditional theories of monetary production, arguingthat a modern economy based on credit cannot be understood withouta focus on the administration of credit flows. He argues thatmarket asset configuration depends not upon consumer preferencesand available technologies but on how money and credit are managed.A strong exponent of the circulation theory of monetary production,Graziani presents an original and perhaps controversial argumentthat will stimulate debate on the topic.

This book describes the statistical mechanics of classicalspin systems with quenched disorder. The first part of the bookcovers the physics of spin-glass states using results obtainedwithin the framework of the mean field theory of spin glasses. Thetechnique of replica symmetry breaking is explained in detail,along with a discussion of the underlying physics. The second partis devoted to the theory of critical phenomena in the presence ofweak quenched disorder. This includes a systematic derivation ofthe traditional renormalization group theory, which is then used toobtain a new 'random' critical regime in disordered vectorferromagnets and in the two-dimensional Ising model. The third partof the book describes other types of disordered systems, relatingto new results at the frontiers of modern research. The book issuitable for graduate students and researchers in the field ofstatistical mechanics of disordered systems.

In an important contribution to educational policy, DanieleChecchi offers an economic perspective on the demand and supply ofeducation. He explores the reasons why, beyond a certain point,investment in education has not resulted in reductions in socialinequalities. Starting with the seminal work of Gary Becker,Checchi provides an extensive survey of the literature on humancapital and social capital formation. He draws on individual dataon intergenerational transmission of income and education for theUSA, Germany and Italy, as well as aggregate data on income andeducational inequality for a much wider range of countries. Checchiexplores whether resources spent in education are effective inraising students' achievement, as well as analysing alternativeways of financing education. The Economics of Education thusprovides the analytical tools necessary to understand the complexrelationships between current income inequality, access toeducation and future inequality.