Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

Johann Hari
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Our ability to pay attention is collapsing. From the author of Chasing the Scream and Lost Connections comes a groundbreaking examination of why this is happening—and how to get our attention back.

“The book the world needs in order to win the war on distraction.”—Adam Grant, author of Think Again

“Read this book to save your mind.”—Susan Cain, author of Quiet

WINNER OF THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, New York Post, Mashable, Mindful

In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.

We think our inability to focus is a personal failure to exert enough willpower over our devices. The truth is even more disturbing: our focus has been stolen by powerful external forces that have left us uniquely vulnerable to corporations determined to raid our attention for profit. Hari found that there are twelve deep causes of this crisis, from the decline of mind-wandering to rising pollution, all of which have robbed some of our attention. In Stolen Focus, he introduces readers to Silicon Valley dissidents who learned to hack human attention, and veterinarians who diagnose dogs with ADHD. He explores a favela in Rio de Janeiro where everyone lost their attention in a particularly surreal way, and an office in New Zealand that discovered a remarkable technique to restore workers’ productivity.

Crucially, Hari learned how we can reclaim our focus—as individuals, and as a society—if we are determined to fight for it. Stolen Focus will transform the debate about attention and finally show us how to get it back.

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香港商場的黃金時代

何尚衡
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如欲認識一地之風土人情，常說市集和公園不容錯過。論香港，還該有購物商場。

香港的居住空間普遍狹小，公共與休憩用地規管甚嚴，加上城市規劃等因素，香港商場成為獨特而顯著的多功能消費場所，有大、中、小型者數百。細察香港商場的規劃、功能和設計，猶如觀看一個城市的空間運用、地道消費文化、生活形態及品味的縮影。

香港一直沒有專著論述商場的歷史與發展脈絡，僅有零星的資料和討論散落各處。本書作者研究香港商場逾十年，曾以商場為題撰寫論文，並在社交媒體開設專頁，把研究配上圖片與大眾分享。全書整理自政府和私人機構的官方記錄、報章及雜誌等文獻，亦有從舊照推敲，加上訪問、實地考察，以及歷年的讀者意見，梳理成翔實而圖文並茂的香港商場發展史。

書中先有緒論講解商場的起源和更迭原因，後有對香港商場的綜合分析，並將香港數十個商場以公、私營歸類，各依其落成年份、地理位置編排，詳述其發展與特色，爬梳不同時代的香港商場風格，為研究及理解香港商場歷史與發展的重要著作。

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Handbook of Financial Econometrics, Statistics, Technology, and Risk Management

Cheng-Few Lee, Alice C Lee, and John C Lee (editors)
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The handbook is an authoritative four‑volume reference that captures the latest advances in financial econometrics, statistical modeling, machine learning, and risk management. Drawing on decades of combined experience in industry practice, academic teaching, research, and journal editorship, the editors and contributors present a rigorous yet practical framework that connects theory, methodology, and real‑world application.

Covering a wide range of topics—from asset pricing and derivatives to corporate finance, systemic risk, and big‑data analytics—this handbook offers an integrated and forward‑looking view of modern quantitative finance, with particular emphasis on higher‑moment theory, data‑driven decision‑making, and contemporary risk management challenges.

Volume 1: Foundations and Methodological Innovations
Focuses on the core tools of financial econometrics and quantitative analysis, introducing foundational models alongside innovative methods. Topics include machine learning in risk management, optimal futures hedging, corporate innovation and executive compensation, option bound determination, banking stability, and systemic risk measurement.

Volume 2: Advanced Financial Theory and Machine Learning Applications
Centers on advanced asset pricing and derivative theory, integrating machine learning techniques into financial decision‑making. Key themes include stochastic volatility, implied variance, real and exotic options, international diversification, AI‑driven stock selection, and credit risk assessment.

Volume 3: Corporate Finance, Empirical Analysis, and Risk Applications
Emphasizes practical and empirical issues in corporate finance and investment management. This volume examines international transfer pricing, corporate restructuring, executive incentive schemes, mutual fund performance, market forecasting, and innovative hedging, capital budgeting, and nonlinear modeling approaches.

Volume 4: Big Data, Advanced Econometrics, and Financial Stability
Explores the integration of big data analytics and advanced econometric techniques in financial markets. Topics include corporate governance and earnings management, stock–exchange rate dynamics, survival analysis, deep neural networks for credit risk, and volatility spillovers during financial crises.

Designed for finance, accounting and economics undergraduate students and graduate students; academics in the fields of finance and accounting.

文青經濟學

曾國平
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當文青的世界不能再為我們帶來安慰，當經濟學的計算不能算出答案，我們唯一可以做的，也許是把人生當成一場不容易玩的遊戲。

「經濟學者」與「文青」，很少出現於同一句子。

文青，一身衣著樸素低調，會去逛書店、喝咖啡、聽講座，講究生活品味，追求理想擁抱真善美；經濟學者，穿上西裝一本正經，在電視螢光幕上以專家身份出現，會講股市樓市走勢、評論大小現象，講求實際，斤斤計較。

兩種思維，兩個世界，好像不是無話可說，就是意見不合。

其實文青與經濟學者，不一定只有矛盾，也能互補不足。

經濟學者研究人的行為，而文史哲生活美學中展現的，是數據中看不到的同情之心和人文關懷；文青想法傾向浪漫，有時把人性或世事想得太美好，強調局限、取捨的經濟學，是一種地心吸力，不讓胡思亂想四處飛。

經濟學教授、「經濟3.0」專欄作者曾國平，以文字帶讀者穿梭時間與空間，游走經濟理論與文青情懷。從「鬱悶科學」看文史哲，平衡理想與現實，「玩」出人生意義。

(摘錄自mybookone.com.hk)

The Winner’s Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies, Then and Now

Richard H. Thaler, Alex O. Imas
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Named one of Financial Times’s Best Books of 2025, that bestselling author Tim Hartford called "fun" and "nerdy in the best way"

Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and rising star economist Alex O. Imas explore the past, present, and cutting-edge future in behavioral economics in The Winner’s Curse.

Why do people cooperate with one another when they have no obvious motivation to do so? Why do we hold on to possessions of little value? And why is the winner of an auction so often disappointed?

Over thirty years ago, Richard H. Thaler introduced readers to behavioral economics in his seminal Anomalies column, written with collaborators including Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky. These provocative articles challenged the fundamental idea at the heart of economics that people are selfish, rational optimizers, and provided the foundation for what became behavioral economics. That was then.

Now, three decades later, Thaler has teamed up with economist Alex O. Imas to write a new book with an original and creative format. Each chapter starts with an original Anomaly, retaining the spirit of its time stamp. Then, shifting to the present, the authors provide updates to each, asking how the original findings have held up and how the field has evolved since then.

It turns out that the original findings not only hold up well, but they show up almost everywhere. Anomalies pop up in people’s decisions to save for retirement and how they carry outstanding credit card debt. Even experts fail to optimize. The key concept of loss aversion explains missed putts by PGA pros and the selection of which stocks to sell by portfolio managers. In this era of meme stocks and Dogecoin, it is hard to defend the view that financial markets are highly efficient. The good news, however, is that the anomalies have gotten funnier.

With both readability and rigor, The Winner’s Curse is for anyone, from those with a cursory understanding of economics to fellow economists. Each chapter provides a key insight into human behavior so readers learn how to better understand the choices made by their friends, colleagues, and customers, and they might just become better at making decisions themselves. Only recommended for humans.

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自主老年：在香港老去

胡令芳
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變老，並不是遙不可及的事。你年輕時所做的事會影響你如何變老，例如生活習慣、教育、職業、性別、階層、財富等眾多個人與社會的因素，都在影響著年老時的生活質素。

胡令芳教授在香港專注老人學研究超過四十年，她主張理想的「變老」並不只是延長壽命，而是「自主老年」，即掌握自己的衰老方式，在變老的過程中盡可能保持身體和認知功能的狀態。在書中，她探討了在香港老去面對的各種挑戰與不平等，包括醫療資源配置不合理、老年貧困、年齡歧視、晚年孤獨等問題。她借鑑了廣泛的研究和多年臨床經驗，從醫學、政策、社會、城市建設、個人習慣等綜合性角度，探討如何讓人有尊嚴地老去，如何將香港變成一座對長者更加友好的城市

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