What Went Wrong with Capitalism

Ruchir Sharma
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A century of expanding government has distorted financial markets, stoked massive inequality, and soaked America in debt.

Capitalism didn’t fail, it was ruined...

What went wrong with capitalism? Ruchir Sharma’s account is not like any you will have heard before. He says progressives are right, in part, when they mock modern capitalism as “socialism for the rich.” For a century, governments have expanded in just about every measurable dimension, from spending to regulation and the scale of financial rescues when the economy wobbles. The result is expensive state guarantees for everyone—bailouts for the rich, entitlements for the middle class, welfare for the poor.

Taking you back to the 19th century, Sharma shows how completely the reflexes of government have changed: from hands-off to hands-on, from doing too little to help anyone in hard times to today trying to prevent anyone suffering any economic pain, ever. Trading sins of omission and indifference for excesses of spending and meddling, governments from the United States to Europe and Japan have pumped so much money into their economies that financial markets can no longer invest all that capital efficiently.

Inadvertently, they have fueled the rise of monopolies, “zombie” firms, and billionaires. They have made capitalism less fair and less efficient, which is slowing economic growth and fueling popular anger. The first step to a cure is a correct diagnose of the problem. Capitalism has been badly distorted by constant government intervention and the relentless spread of a bailout culture. Building an even bigger state will only double down on what ruined capitalism in the first place.

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彌敦道上 : 金光舊夢換新顏

編者： 鄭宏泰 , 周文港
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用港督名字命名的彌敦道（Nathan Road）乃九龍半島的大動脈，自修築至落成使用起，九龍半島日漸繁盛起來，成為車水馬龍的金光大道。

本書是關於彌敦道的故事，匯聚多位學者和歷史專家的文章，配以多幅歷史照片，從城市節奏、文化遺產、街角故事、衣食住行四個部份，呈現九龍半島特別是彌敦道的發展面貌、人情逸事及文化沉澱等方面一個多世紀以來的轉變。由尖沙咀地標東英大廈背後有關何東胞弟的謎團、新世界中心以至天星小輪的發跡故事，到彌敦道休憩公園東側防空隧道說起的懸案等等。走在彌敦道上，一步一故事。本書帶你重溫一遍金光舊夢，並藉此說明香港一路走來的不凡經歷。

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Secrets of the Octopus

Sy Montgomery, Warren K. Carlyle IV
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Remarkable new discoveries affirm the octopus as one of nature’s most intelligent and complex animals.

This new book—written by the beloved author of the international bestseller The Soul of an Octopus, along with Warren Carlyle, founder of Octonation, and enhanced with vivid National Geographic photography—brings us closer than ever to these elusive creatures.

The companion to the highly-anticipated National Geographic television special—narrated by Paul Rudd and airing for Earth Day—this beautifully illustrated book explores the alluring underwater world of the octopus—a creature that resembles an alien lifeform, but whose behavior has earned it a reputation as one of the most intelligent animals on the planet.

This magical journey into the world of the octopus will reveal how the large and capable brain of these creatures occupies their whole body–not just their heads—and they can actually adjust their genetic makeup to respond to the demands of the environment. It will allow readers to watch them change shape and color in order to camouflage themselves more effectively than any other species. And it will divulge how octopus mothers give their all in order to bring forth a new generation.

With this offering, acclaimed author Sy Montgomery—known, thanks to her bestselling book, as the “octopus whisperer”—returns to the species she knows and loves, offering current and compassionate stories about the scientists on the front lines of octopus research and conservation.

For all animal lovers—and especially those drawn to this magical marine being—this will be a book to relish, for both its fascinating imagery and its charming storytelling.

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錦程 : 中國絲綢與絲綢之路 (Chinese Silk and the Silk Road)

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說到絲綢，馬上就會聯想到中國。中國是世界上最早發明蠶桑絲綢的國家；絲綢是中國文明的一個重要組成部分，並通過絲綢之路，西傳至中亞、西亞，直達歐洲。「絲綢之路」有兩個關鍵字：「絲綢」和「路」。一百多年來，中外學者對絲綢之路的中外文化交流進行了大量的研究，但專門針對絲綢之路上出土的絲綢和紡織品—即「絲路之綢」的研究卻並不十分豐富。

本書專門對絲綢之路的出土紡織品進行總體介紹；作者把中國絲綢的發展、藝術、工藝等通過絲綢之路的變化一一呈現，特別通過漢唐時期不同種類紡織品的技術與風格特點，勾勒東西方紡織科技的交流過程，以及中國紡織科技在這一時期的演變脈絡，讓讀者對「絲綢之路」的文化交流、「絲路之綢」的工藝發展，以至彼此間的聯繫有更深入的認識。

(摘錄自 cityu.edu.hk/upress)


" A Passion for Silk the Road from China to Europe” exhibition held at the Indra and Banga Gallery of the City University of Hong Kong from April 11 to September 1, 2024. READ MORE

正於香港城市大學舉行的《絲織繁華：從中國到歐洲之路》展覽，匯集了一百五十件來自中國、印度、 法國及意大利的各類珍貴絲綢文物。這些展品為我們提供了一個獨特的視角，探討中國歷經多個世紀的絲綢織造技藝，以及其在文化中的重要地位。閱讀更多

日期: 2024年4月11日至9月1日 （逢星期一休館）
時間: 上午10時 – 下午7時
地點: 香港城市大學劉鳴偉學術大樓十八樓般哥展覽館
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma

Mustafa Suleyman
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgent warning of the unprecedented risks that AI and other fast-developing technologies pose to global order, and how we might contain them while we have the chance—from a co-founder of the pioneering artificial intelligence company DeepMind and current CEO of Microsoft AI

“A fascinating, well-written, and important book.”—Yuval Noah Harari
“Essential reading.”—Daniel Kahneman
“An excellent guide for navigating unprecedented times.”—Bill Gates

A Best Book of the Year: CNN, Economist, Bloomberg, Politico Playbook, Financial Times, The Guardian, CEO Magazine, Semafor • Winner of the Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award • Finalist for the Porchlight Business Book Award and the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award

We are approaching a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change.

Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy.

None of us are prepared.

As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.

In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.

Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia? Is it possible to contain the threat of AI?

This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes “the containment problem”—the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies—as the essential challenge of our age.

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活了100萬次的人生腳本 : 看清內心小劇場, 重整內在四種人格模式, 終結自我情緒內耗

吉塔・雅各 (Gitta Jacob)
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──每個人，都會在這本書中看見自己的身影──
為什麼有人活得愉悅自在，有些人卻痛苦不已？
讓德國最具影響力的心理學家帶領你重塑內在人格、跳脫框架，
在餘生懂得真正地善待自己。

在某些情境下，我們不自覺就會表現出不安、焦慮、恐懼……你有問過自己這種感覺是從何而來嗎？為什麼我們沒辦法用另一種方式來應對？為什麼我們的人生總是反覆犯下相同錯誤，彷彿從未學到教訓。這讓人無比挫折，也使人感到痛苦、悲傷、絕望、無助……但這是為什麼？為什麼這種只會帶來傷害的行為如此難以擺脫，甚至無法改變？其實，每個人的思考模式、情緒反應與行為都無意識地遵循了某種模式，而產生特定的應對策略，所以才會一次又一次落入同樣的情緒陷阱。

你可以告別反覆上演的負面情緒與創傷，
不再經歷一犯再犯的錯誤。
霸氣奪回人生的主導權，活出最滿意的自己。

在本書的協助之下，讀者將了解自我內在人格地圖的四大部分，並學會如何妥善分配角色。在這過程，你將跟著指引看見隱藏在內心已久的創傷、衝突與心結，重新理解真實的自我與情緒來源。藉由安撫受傷的內在小孩、擺脫內在法官殘酷無情的貶低聲音，建立更強大的成人自我，成熟地修正錯誤的應對策略，從此不再輕易受過去創傷與情緒擺布、反覆陷入同樣的泥淖。

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