Old Europe’s new crisis. Europe, the charming continent of windmills and gondolas. Butlately, Europe has become the continent of endless strikes anddemonstrations, bombs on the trains and subways, radical Islamiccells in every city, and ghettos so hopeless and violent even thepolice won’t enter them. In Spain, a terrorist attack promptsinstant capitulation to the terrorists’ demands. In France, thesuburbs go up in flames every night. In Holland, politicians andartists are murdered for speaking frankly about Islamicimmigration. This isn’t the Europe we thought we knew. What’s going on overthere? Traveling overland from London to Istanbul, journalist ClaireBerlinski shows why the Continent has lately appeared sobewildering—and often so thoroughly obnoxious—to Americans.Speaking to Muslim immigrants, German rock stars, French cops, andItalian women who have better things to do than have children, shefinds that Europe is still, despite everything, in the grip of thesame old
《企业的企业家:契约理论》由契约理论和企业家理论发展了一个企业的企业家契约一般均衡理论,试图在主流经济学的框架内解释究竟是什么因素决定市场经济中企业内部权威安排,回答了为什么资本雇佣劳动而不是工人监督企业家,为什么资本所有者而不是劳动者选择企业经营者,什么因素决定什么样的人将成为企业家这样一些问题。在竞争的市场经济中,有才能又有财产的人成为“企业家”,有才能无财产的人成为“职业经营者”,有财产而无才能的人成为“单纯资本所有者”,既无才能又无财产的人成为“工人”。《企业的企业家:契约理论》还证明,这四种
作者水皮,知名财经评论家,是财经新闻界的元老级人物,紧跟中国经济潮流二十余载。擅长以新闻手法解读经济方略,其专栏“水皮杂谈”拥有众多忠实读者,致力于为读者解读股市发展动向。本书以“风”为线索,记录了水皮在新一轮市场载浮载沉中的心路历程,是沉浸中国股市20余年经验积累的精华展现。 “风”来去无踪,却既有摧毁一切、又有催生万物的力量。跟水皮读懂股市之风,选时不如选势,不再被市场驾驭,成为市场的主宰者。
Created in 1959, Amway has had an integralpart in shaping and improving the lives and lifestyles of millions of people around the world. Not just a business, but an opportunity for personal success and achievement, it has spread the old-fashioned American dream across the globe--from South America to the Pacific Rim. This definitive history of Amway delves deep into the heart and soul of the organization.It is an inspirational,motivational chronicle of the company as a whole—its ideology,goals,beliefs,ethics,and sense of values.With provo cative insights, into the first four decades of Amway,this valuable book shows where the company satnds at the dawn of the nes millennium——and how it will continue to move forward in the twenty-first century. In addition to the actual history of Amway,you'll read the uplifting stories of people around the world whose lives have been totally transformed by its philosophy-astonishing accounts of personal success that will motuvate you to improve your own life by
“I think they’re absolutely right... what’s happening to themis reflective of what’s happening across this economy.”--PresidentBarack Obama on the workers at Republic Windows Doors December 5, 2008: It wasn’t supposed to work like this. Daysafter getting a $45 billion bailout from the U.S. government, Bankof America shut down a line of credit that kept Chicago’s RepublicWindows Doors factory operating. The bosses, who knew whatwas coming, had been sneaking machinery out in the middle of thenight. They closed the factory and sent the workers home. Thensomething surprising happened: Republic’s workers occupied thefactory and refused to leave. Kari Lydersen, an award-winning Washington Post reporter, tellsthe story of the factory takeover, elegantly transforming theworkers’ story into a parable of labor activism for the 21stcentury, one that concludes with a surprising and little-reportedvictory.
在《冲浪涨停板》中安阳和广大读者分享了他在强势股操作中的经验,详细披露了20余种战法。书里,有他“行股”10多年执著追求的坚实足迹;有他对云谲波诡市场的深刻理解。他认为:连续涨停板是长期量变累积的必然结果,技术共振是其最重要保障,成交量是出现连续涨停板的命根子。其字里行间无不浸透着他严谨不倦的探求和坦诚无悔的付出。对于读者而言,这是一笔不可多得的宝贵财富。
The author of Simple Spells for Love returns with everythingthe curious reader needs to know about the art of casting spellsand crafting charms to increase prosperity, enhance creativeprocesses, attract investors and partners, increase businessopportunities, and find the right career.
More than a thousand individuals of high net worth rose up toprotest the repeal of the estate tax-Newsweek tagged them the"billionaire backlash." The primary visionaries of that group, BillGates Sr. and Chuck Collins, argue here that individual wealth is aproduct not only of hard work and smart choices but of the societythat provides the fertile soil for succes. Weaving personalnarratives, history, and plenty of solid economic sense, Gates andCollins make a sound and compelling case for estate tax reform, notrepeal.
“Excellent. . . . A funny and moving memoir, it is one of thefrankest accounts of race relations in America in recent years.”–The New York Times Book Review“With clarity, courage, and a deepfamiliarity with his literary predecessors–from James Joyce toJames Baldwin–Clemens has written a book as riven, wounded, and yetsurprisingly durable as its subject.” –Jeffrey Eugenides, author ofMiddlesex“Compelling. . . . his relationship to Detroit is rich andcomplex, brimming with experiences both hurtful and redemptive.”–The Los Angeles Times“Marvelous. . . . Passionate, intelligent.”–Entertainment Weekly
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如今,世界上*影响力的组织不是政府,而是金融机构。金融业在整个社会中拥有至高无上的地位,金融精英们也因此获得了不可思议的影响力。他们拥有着相似的社会、教育、专业背景,掌控着数亿甚至千亿资产,通过极具排他性的人脉网络,交换常人无法企及的资源,指数级地扩大其财富与权力。作为世界顶层金融圈的亲历者与*犀利的观察者,华尔街*投资顾问桑德拉·纳薇蒂给出了成为金融圈顶层精英的条件: ??△?好胜、自我挑战的阿尔法人格(摩根大通CEO杰米·戴蒙); ??△拥有非凡沟通力和销售力(黑石集团创始人施瓦茨曼); ??△低调、敏感、执着于使命与原则(对冲基金教父达利欧); ??△赚钱只是进入圈子的基本条件,把钱分发出去才是积累高级社会资本的有效方法(*)。