本书为该系列丛书的第二卷，介绍了1840-1847年间小麦的收成和价格情况，并对英国小麦价格预期走势做出了判断，书中还介绍了其他拼了农作物的价格变化情况。此外，书中还对纸币流通中的问题、货币与

逆向投资之所以会获得成功，是因为进行预测的投资者不知道自己的局限性所在。（大卫·德雷曼） 历经半世纪，四次全面改版的投资经典 1970年，《逆向投资策略（原书第4版）》前身《心理学与证券市场》面世。 1979年，经改版后的《逆向投资策略：证券市场成功心理学》面世。 1982年，79年版的《逆向投资策略》修订版问世。 1998年，临近世纪之交，德雷曼根据时代变化与十多年来积累的经验重写了《逆向投资策略》一书。 2012年，在华尔街经历了互联网泡沫与次贷危机的洗礼后，行为金融与投资心理的重要性日益凸显，在新世纪跨入第二个十年之际，德雷曼再次重新演绎了自己的这本经典著作，对章节结构进行了全面调整，最终将本书呈现给广大读者。 在本版《逆向投资策略（原书第4版）》中，德雷曼向读者展现了这样一个投资世界： 从心理学的角度诠

For most of the last three millennia, the world’s commercialcenters have used one or another variant of a gold standard. Itshould be one of the best understood of human institutions, butit’s not. It’s one of the worst understood, by both its advocatesand detractors. Though it has been spurned by governments manytimes, this has never been due to a fault of gold to serve itsduty, but because governments had other plans for their currenciesbeyond maintaining their stability. And so, says Nathan Lewis,there is no reason to believe that the great monetary successes ofthe past four centuries, and indeed the past four millennia, couldnot be recreated in the next four centuries. In Gold, he makes aforceful, well–documented case for a worldwide return to the goldstandard. Governments and central bankers around the world todayunanimously agree on the desirability of stable money, ever more soafter some monetary disaster has reduced yet another economy tosmoking ruins. Lewis shows how gold provides

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In 1997, a groundbreaking McKinsey study exposed the "war fortalent" as a strategic business challenge and a critical driver ofcorporate performance. Then, when the dot-com bubble burst and theeconomy cooled, many assumed the war for talent was over. It'snot. Now the authors of the original study reveal that, because ofenduring economic and social forces, the war for talent willpersist for the next two decades. McKinsey Company consultants Ed Michaels, HelenHandfield-Jones, and Beth Axelrod argue that winning the war forleadership talent is about much more than frenzied recruitingtactics. It's about the timeless principles of attracting,developing, and retaining highly talented managers-applied in boldnew ways. And it's about recognizing the strategic importance ofhuman capital because of the enormous value that better talentcreates. Fortified by five years of in-depth research on how companiesmanage leadership talent-including surveys of 13,000 executives atmore than 120 companies

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.

For over 20 years Hal Varian's "Intermediate Microeconomics" has given students the most current and complete coverage of intermediate microeconomics at an appropriate mathematical level. The Eighth Edition includes contemporary case studies and

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No major enterprise or financial institution can avoid doing business with China—if not directly, then through myriad hidden connections. Global businesses either use Chinese resources or sell to and in China or compete with companies that do. Because there’s no avoiding China, business leaders need a framework that orders the different (and seemingly contradictory) streams of data that hint at its future. That framework is The China Strategy. In this invaluable book, Edward Tse explains the ever-changing nature of China's business environment, its increasingly complex relationship with the rest of the world, and the global business implications—not just for our current environment but for the next decade. Change, Tse argues, is taking place in non-linearly. Some dimensions (like Chinese entrepreneurship) are expanding exponentially, while others (like the value of China's labor arbitrage) may be reaching a plateau. Eschewing easy explanations, Tse shows how to build and execute a global

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There was a time (the 1980s and 1990s) when it seemed easy forexecutives to please Wall Street. That hasn't been true for awhile. The stock market has become an unforgiving place, anddealing with dissatisfied investors part of the daily job of CEOs,CFOs and investor-relations executives. There are right ways andmany, many wrong ways to face an angry mob. Nobody knows thembetter than Baruch Lev. He's done the research. He's analyzed thedata. And he has developed a set of authoritative, often surprisinginstructions for dealing intelligently with Wall Street. This booktells what to do when your company disappoints investors, getsslammed by financial analysts, or finds itself mired in lawsuitsall of which have a negative effect not just on stock prices but onemployee recruitment (who wants to work for a losing company?),consumer behavior (who wants to buy a major product of a failingfirm?), and supply chain development (who wants to partner with atroubled enterprise?). Stripped of cliches and emotional arg

The classic introduction to economic thought, now updated intime for the publication of New Ideas from Dead CEOs This entertaining and accessible introduction to the greateconomic thinkers throughout history— Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill,Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, and more—shows how their ideasstill apply to our modern world. In this revised edition, renownedeconomist Todd Buchholz offers an insightful and informedperspective on key economic issues in the new millennium:increasing demand for energy, the rise of China, internationaltrade, aging populations, health care, and the effects of globalwarming. New Ideas from Dead Economists is a fascinating guide tounderstanding both the evolution of economic theory and our complexcontemporary economy.

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