查尔斯·蒂利（Charles　Tilly）是兴趣广泛的美国社会学家，他是研究欧洲政治变化的权威，现为哥伦比亚大学特聘的约瑟夫·L·伯滕威泽（The、Joseph L·BLittenwleser）社会科学教授。他1958年获得哈佛大学博士学位。蒂利的研究主要集中在他自己所说的终生的三大关怀上，它们是集体行为的历史和动力、城市化的过程和民族国家的形成，他特别关注大规模的社会变化及其和政治的关系，特别是发生在1500年以来的欧洲的社会变化。他对欧洲历史考察入微，对许多政治现象都有自己的真知灼见。他著述丰硕．也是政治学领域著名的学者。

In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at different stages of European history, and because they assume a unilinear path of stat...(展开全部)

In this pathbreaking work, now available in paperback, Charles Tilly challenges all previous formulations of state development in Europe. Specifically, Tilly charges that most available explanations fail because they do not account for the great variety of kinds of states which were viable at different stages of European history, and because they assume a unilinear path of stat...(展开全部)

The author examines how states canand haveused international currency relationships and arrangements as instruments of coercive power for the advancement of state security. He uncovers how monetary power is affected by different monetary regimes, the sources of its success and failure, and the factors that lead states to turn to its use.

The Coercion Thesis has been a subject of longstanding debate, but legal positivist scholarship over the last several decades has concluded that coercion is not necessary for law. Coercion and the Nature of Law is concerned with reviving the Coercion Thesis, presenting a strong case for the inherently coercive nature of legal regulation, and arguing that anything properly chara...(展开全部)

Richard Ritter von Strigl (1891-1942) was one of the most brilliant Austrian economists of the interwar period. As professor at the University of Vienna he had a decisive influence on Hayek, Machlup, Haberler, Morgenstern, and other fourth-generation Austrian economists. Very few classic works on capital and business cycles in the Austrian tradition have been translated from th...(展开全部)

New York Times Best Seller The epic successor to one of the most important books of the century: at once a retelling of global history, a scathing critique of contemporary politics, and a bold proposal for a new and fairer economic system. Thomas Piketty’s bestselling Capital in the Twenty-First Century galvanized global debate about inequality. In this audacious follow-up, Pik...(展开全部)