Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores - everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-growing regions of Central A...(展开全部)

Bananas, the most frequently consumed fresh fruit in the United States, have been linked to Miss Chiquita and Carmen Miranda, "banana republics," and Banana Republic clothing stores - everything from exotic kitsch, to Third World dictatorships, to middle-class fashion. But how did the rise in banana consumption in the United States affect the banana-growing regions of Central A...(展开全部)

The idea that world politics can be understood in terms of a US dominated unipolarity became generally accepted during the 1990s. Following the September 11 attacks, however, US foreign policy took an imperial turn and many began to question the form, style and substance of US leadership at the start of the 21st Century. But why is the US behaving as if it lived in a wor...(展开全部)

In a natural follow-up to his international bestseller "The Crash of 2008: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets", George Soros reflects on what went wrong with the global economy, and how to get it back on track. The dire economic situation we find ourselves in is not a result of economic forces alone, but of the policies pursued, and not pursued, by world leaders. In this co...(展开全部)

"The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States" marked the beginning of the study of our post-industrial information society. Austrian-born economist Fritz Machlup had focused his research on the patent system, but he came to realize that patents were simply one part of a much bigger "knowledge economy". He then expanded the scope of his work to evaluate eve...(展开全部)

沈大伟（David Shambaugh），政治学和国际问题教授，美国最著名的中国问题专家之一，国际公认的研究当代中国事务、中美关系、国际政治和亚太地区安全问题的权威。现任美国乔治·华盛顿大学中国政策研究项目主任。

Tangled Titans offers a current and comprehensive assessment of the most important relationship in international affairs-that between the United States and China. How the relationship evolves will have a defining impact on the future of world politics, the Asian region, and the citizens of many nations. What is the state of U.S.-China relations and how is it likely to develop i...(展开全部)

Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. "Capitalists Against Markets" makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above, taking into account capitalist interests and preferences. Juxtaposing two widely recognized ...(展开全部)