InHow Economics Explains the World, Harvard-trained economist Andrew Leigh presents a new way to understand the human story. From the dawn of agriculture to AI, here is story of how ingenuity, greed, and desire for betterment have, to an astonishing degree, determined our past, present, and...
他用了 “Wellbeing”这个词,而不是 “Utility”,后者是经济学家们创造出来衡量消费者在交易中得到的满足感,而“Wellbeing”涵盖的意义更广泛,包括了非物质层面社会层面多重因素。从定义上就可以看出作者把这本书定位在文明的层面,而不是传统经济学里最大化效益的理性人这样狭隘又不符合现实的框框里面。所以影响人...
书名:How economics explains the world: A short history of humanity 作者: Andrew Leigh 好几个媒体都在推荐这本英文书。一个诺贝尔经济学奖获得者甚至说,这是你2024年必须读的一本书。于是我买来看了一下,发现它是一本经济学科普书。经济学人可以复习一下经济历史以及一些主要的经济学概念。非经济学人也可...
一本经济学科普书 书名:How economics explains the world: A short history of humanity 作者: Andrew Leigh 好几个媒体都在推荐这本英文书。一个诺贝尔经济学奖获得者甚至说,这是你2024年必须读的一本书...
Why did inequality in many advanced countries fall during the 1950s and 1960s? How did property rights drive China's growth surge in the 1980s? How does climate change threaten our future prosperity? You'll find answers to these questions and more in How Economics Explains the World....
Shopify “was key to our ability to move at pace. We knew how the new site is performing against the legacy one and we had the data to drill into the differences, like search results and add to cart behaviour,” explains János. “We were able to measure performance across all relevant...
Shopify “was key to our ability to move at pace. We knew how the new site is performing against the legacy one and we had the data to drill into the differences, like search results and add to cart behaviour,” explains János. “We were able to measure performance across all relevant...
supply, demand, and comparative advantage are some examples. You will learn new terms in the next few chapters, and they may seem unnecessary and obscure. However, it is crucial to learn these new terms and their nuances if you want to learn how to use economics to understand the world. ...
Christopher Ailman, chief investment officer of the California State Teachers’ Retirement Fund, explains how performance can be enhanced by culture, diversification, and limiting CIO turnover. (7 pages) In a nearly four-decade career as an institutional investo...
This paper is structured as follows:Section 2presents the construction of an integrated theoretical framework of how urban sprawl affects eco-environmental quality.Section 3explains the empirical framework, which includes the index system and the method to quantify urban sprawl and eco-environmental quali...