This book helps you discover the secrets behind hundreds of everyday enigmas. Why is there a light in your fridge but not in your freezer? Why do 24-hour shops bother having locks on their doors? Why did Kamikaze pilots wear helmets? The answer is simple: economics. Economics doesn't just happen in classrooms or international banks. It is everywhere and influences everything we do and see, from the cinema screen to the streets. It can even explain some of life's most intriguing enigmas. For years, economist Robert Frank has been encouraging his students to use economics to explain the strange situations they encounter in everyday life, from peculiar product design to the vagaries of sex appeal. Now he shares the most intriguing - and bizarre - questions and the economic principles that answer them to reveal why many of the most puzzling parts of everyday life actually make perfect (economic) sense.'Can be returned to again and again like one of those all-you-can-eat buffets' - "New York Times". Robert H. Fran
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创新是我国经济由高速增长向高质量发展转变的动力，人才是实现创新驱动发展的首要资源，以科技人员和企业家为代表的创新型人才是人才的先锋队。本书对我国在高等教育、科研激励、企业创新、人才流动、人才政策和计划等方面的现状和问题进行梳理，借鉴发达国家经验，提出了新时期我国人才政策的改革路径和重点举措。全书论点清晰、明确，材料详实，为我国实现面向未来的创新型人才培养、激励与流动指出了方向。
Is your in-box always full? Are you constantly workingovertime on tasks that "only you" can do? If so, you could benefitfrom delegating some of your workload. This volume shows you howto: · Identify which tasks to delegate · Decide whether to delegate based on employee, task, project, orfunction · Identify the skills required for each delegatedassignment · Make an assignment and monitor the work · Address problems with delegated assignments
创新是我国经济由高速增长向高质量发展转变的动力，人才是实现创新驱动发展的首要资源，以科技人员和企业家为代表的创新型人才是人才的先锋队。本书对我国在高等教育、科研激励、企业创新、人才流动、人才政策和计划等方面的现状和问题进行梳理，借鉴发达国家经验，提出了新时期我国人才政策的改革路径和重点举措。全书论点清晰、明确，材料详实，为我国实现面向未来的创新型人才培养、激励与流动指出了方向。
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。
