THE PURITAN GIFT: TRIUMPH, COLLAPSE AND REVIVAL OF AN AMERICAN DREAM

Book ID/图书代码： 06545007B12378

English Summary/英文概要： Financial Times Top Ten Business Book of 2007! The Puritan Gift traces the origins and the characteristics of American managerial culture which, in the course of three centuries, would turn a group of small colonies into the greatest economic and political power on earth. It was the Protestant ethic whose characteristics--thrift, a respect for enquiry, individualism tempered by a need to cooperate, success as a measure of divine approval--helped to create the conditions which led to America’s managerial and corporate success. Thus, the authors contend, the drive, energy and acceptance of innovation, competition, growth and social mobility, all have their origins in the discipline and ethos of America’s first wave of European immigrants: the Puritans. And, the authors warn, as Americans distance themselves from core values which produced their nineteenth and twentieth century business and economic successes, they endanger the basis for their prosperity and security.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 了解美國經濟經緯縱深的難得佳作。全書共分五大章節：起源、崛起、頂峰、衰頹到重生。橫跨美國兩百年來經濟發展歷程。
★ 了解美國經濟與企業崛起與隕落的必讀之作
★ 全書充滿許多精采故事，為當前僵化的企業經營思維，注入醍醐灌頂的全新思考角度

美國為何能成為當前依然屹立不搖的經濟強國？如果創新、競爭、成長與社會穩定性是美國企業的成功元素，又是什麼樣的社會與歷史條件賦予美國有幸擁有這些條件？而隨著這些核心價值的失落，美國經濟的榮景是否能夠繼續持續，還是將隨著這些核心價值的離散，走向殞落？(KC)

Awards/获奖情况：★ 金融時報2007年十大商業好書《Financial Times Top Ten Business Book of 2007》!

"Kenneth Hopper is certainly one of the most eloquent, and credible voices being raised on this issue."---Robert Hayes, 哈佛大學

"A goldmine of information."---Myron Tribus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 麻省理工學院

Stephen Evans, as presenter of BBC Business Daily, has selected this book as a ’must read of the year’ for 2007. "A very thought-provoking and readable book."---Linda Hesselman, Management Studies Centre, University College, London 倫敦大學

"A stunning triumph . . . An important new contribution to the academic study of management." ---Professor Peter Kawalek, Manchester Business School曼徹斯特商學院

"The best thing about The Puritan Gift is that it is a real book, full of fascinating insights, intellectual rigour and challenging, authoritative arguments that remind us that there is nothing new about the responsibilities of management."---Richard Donkin, Financial Times 金融時報

‘In The Puritan Gift, published last year, the septuagenarian Scottish brothers William and Kenneth Hopper, respectively a banker and an engineer-turned-industrial consultant, argued that for 200 years the puritan foundations of America kept its businesses intact, emphasising craft, financial responsibility and the sublimation of private interest to the group.’---Andrew Billen, TIMES, 9th March 2009 時代雜誌

About the Author/作者介绍： Kenneth Hopper撰寫產業新聞已有五十年之久，並在歐美兩地擔任管理顧問。William Hopper 則在紐約與倫敦的投資銀行任職。
作者今年4月接受BBC採訪，訪談內容為高盛銀行。
BBC Radio 4 in The World Tonight on Tuesday April 27 about Goldman Sachs. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00s2rnc/b00s2rhv/The_World_Tonight_27_04_2010/
(The episode begins at 17.17 minutes and the author features at 18.43 minutes)

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