Influential economist Milton Friedman died at the age of 94 last week. The 1976 Nobel Prize winner's belief in free markets influenced the policies of Britain's Margaret Thatcher, Chile's Augusto Pinochet, and US presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald For

发表于:2018-11-30 / 阅读(122) / 评论(0) 分类 商务英语基础

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The principal conquests of the Romans were achieved under the republic; and the emperors, for the most part, were satisfied with preserving those dominions which had been acquired by the policy of the senate, the active emulations of the consuls, and

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LYNN NEARY, HOST: Now, the story of an incredible journey that begins in the late 1980s when the first Palestinian uprising began. (SOUNDBITE OF EXPLOSION) NEARY: The images from the intifada include exploding tear gas canisters launched by Israelis

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Books and Arts; Book Review; 文艺;书评; A history of mapmaking;Views of the world; 地图史;世界景象; There is no such thing as an objective map; 准确地图谁见了; A History of the World in Twelve Maps. By Jerry Brotton. 《12幅地图

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Books and Arts; Book Review;Japanese history; 文艺;书评;日本历史; Selective memory; 选择性记忆; Ways of Forgetting, Ways of Remembering: Japan in the Modern World. By John Dower. 《淡忘之道,铭记之途:现代日本》,约翰

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The History of Words Borrowed from Japanese Think of a language as a living thing. Like most things living, languages are always growing and changing. And today, in our highly connected world, these changes happen more and more quickly. Every year, f

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课程简介:很多斯坦福商学院的人自豪地认为,哈佛商学院代表比较传统的经营管理培训,培养的是西装革履式的大企业管理人才;而斯坦福商学院则更强调开创新科技新企业的小企业精神,

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课程简介:很多斯坦福商学院的人自豪地认为,哈佛商学院代表比较传统的经营管理培训,培养的是西装革履式的大企业管理人才;而斯坦福商学院则更强调开创新科技新企业的小企业精神,

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JEFFREY BROWN:And now to the continuing debate over the government's role in the economy and the decisions taken in the aftermath of the financial crisis. Earlier this week, we aired a conversation with David Stockman, a businessman and former White

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Money can buy happiness, but up to what point? And does working more make us miserable? And will you be happier if you start your own company? Here's what the research tells us。 金钱可以买到幸福,但能买到多少幸福呢?另外,工作

发表于:2019-02-03 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

The economics of good looks 美貌经济学 The line of beauty 貌美之人的界限 Pretty people still get the best deals in the market, from labour to love 外貌标致的人仍然最有市场,不论是找工作还是找情人 Aug 27th 2011 | fr

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《魔鬼经济学》的作者Steven Levitt展示了有关毒品交易的最新经济数据。与传统看法不同的是,他认为街头贩子其实无利可图:他们的收入不仅低于最低工资线,更要冒着被头头解决的生命风险

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托福频道在此与大家分享托福阅读之摄影史(The Birth of Photography),其中包括托福阅读词汇及词汇在文中的使用以及相关题目。希望对大家复习托福阅读有所帮助。 Perceptions of the visible world were

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For those who spend a lot of their timebetween the jewellery boutiques and the haute couture stores of Tokyos Ginzadistrict, a new joke suggests an easy way to tell local Japanese from theChinese tourists. 一个新的笑话表明,有一个简便方法

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Economics Brief 经济学简介 Six Big Ideas: The natural rate of unemployment 六大经济学原理:失业的自然比率 Central bankers' holy grail 央行银行家的圣杯 Policymakers have spent half a century in search of the natural rate of

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The next year it hit 5.4% even as unemployment changed little. 第二年,甚至在失业变化不大的情况下达到了5.4%。 The stagflation of the 1970s killed off the idea of a stable Phillips curve. 上世纪70年代滞张(stagflation)曾一度

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For a country where many major holidays can be traced back thousands of years, Singles Day is a refreshingly recent invention. No one is quite sure exactly who first thought it up, but it definitely emerged as a student tradition in the mid-1990s. Th

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(73) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

模仿文本: Abenomics, the name that's given to a massive economic project launched a year ago by Japan's recently reelected Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe. In simple terms, abenomics means reflation, Japan's new deal, if you like, pumping billions b

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The genetic history of Britain 英国的基因史 Who do you think you are? 你认为自己是谁? An analysis of Britons' genes confirms some myths and explodes others 对英国人基因的一项分析论证了神话中的虚与实 THE waves of in

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