本书将英国财经报业权威《金融时报》的专业特色与朗文在英语教学上的特长有机地结合起来，全书内容共分为财经概念篇、区域经济篇、企业管理篇三大部分，宏观与微观兼具。

适合财经类专业学生、GRE、GMAT考生、现从事财经或新闻相关行业者、对财经英文有兴趣者参考使用。

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PART ONE International Political Economy

国际政治经济

Only by reshaping the postwar settlement can

it be preserved 2

战后国际体系唯有重塑才能生存

Globalisation：integration marches onward

全球化在威胁中前进

Competition would overthrow the~ranny of

vested interests

竞争将推翻既得利益暴政

The great‘national interest fallacy

“国家利益”的伟大谬论

Will it cost the earth?How economists are pricing

the ravages of climate change?

经济学家如何衡量气候变化造成的破坏?

会以失去地球为代价吗？

Smaller is beautiful when it comes to population

人口总数——少即是美

PART TWO Regional Economy

区域经济

The American century shows no sign of ending

美国世纪并无终结迹象

A productivity prescription：how the US has pulled

away from Europe and Japan

生产力秘方：美国何以遥遥领先欧洲和日本?

The answer to Asia’s rise is not to

retreat from the world

亚洲崛起而不威胁全球的答案

What India must dO to catch up with and possibly

outpace China

印度经济能够超越中国吗?

Japan’s failure to refOrm has not prevented its recovery

日本改革失败并未阻碍复苏

America failed to calculate the enormous ccIsts of war

理清美国伊战的糊涂账

Capital gain：how London is thriving as it takes

on the global competition

资本收益：伦敦金融城如何在全球竞争下繁华依旧?

PART TH REE Operation and

Management

经营管理

IS this the end of corporate strategy?

这是企业战略的终结吗?

Weighty choices in the hands of amateur

decision-makers

业余决策者手中的专业抉择

Why in—house collaboration is so difficult

为何企业内合作如此艰难

Good things come to those who actively wait

积极等待好事到来

Why academics make an unfit subject for

management

学者难管之“七宗罪”

Search engines are not the only sites

搜索引擎不再一枝独秀

Golden arches bridge local tastes

麦当劳的本地化战略

Course choices that help MBAs make the world a

better place

MBA选修课让世界更美好