詹姆斯·布坎南（James McGill Buchanan，1919— ），公共选择理论创始人之一，1986年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，著有《同意的计算》（与戈登·塔洛克合著，1958）、《民主财政论》（1967）、《成本与选择》（1969）、《自由的限度》（与罗伯特·托利森合著，1975）、《赤字中的民主》（与理查德·瓦格纳合著，1971）、《自由、市场与国家》（1985）、《宪政经济学》（与杰佛瑞·布伦南合著，1985）、《财产与自由》（1993）等。

James M. Buchanan himself speaks of “my little book, Cost and Choice.” Cost and Choice is indeed small in size, but, systematically, it holds quite a central place in Buchanan’s work. For the fundamental economic notion of “cost,” or “opportunity cost,” is intimately related to the Buchanan enterprise. As a subjectivist, Buchanan insists that opportunity cost exist only in the ...(展开全部)

W．菲利普斯·夏夫利（W. Phillips Shively），现为美国明尼苏达大学政治学系教授。1971年之前在耶鲁大学、俄勒冈大学任教，还曾经担任挪威奥斯陆大学访问教授。历任《美国政治科学杂志》编辑、美国政治学会全国大会专题主席以及“选举制度比较研究”项目的负责人。他主要从事选举体制比较研究。曾在《美国政治科学评论》《美国政治科学杂志》《政治学杂志》及《政治分析》等顶级期刊上发表多篇论文，其最具广泛影响的代表性著作包括《政治科学研究方法》《跨层推断》（合著）。此外，他还曾担任明尼苏达州的院外活动成员，有较丰富的政治实践经历。

托马斯·谢林，1921年出生于美国加利福尼亚州的奥克兰市，是美国著名学者、经济学家，也是有限战争理论的奠基人之一，还是外交事务、国家安全、核战略以及军备控制方面的研究专家。1944年获伯克利加利福尼亚大学文学学士学位，1948年获哈佛大学文学硕士学位，1951年获哈佛大学哲学博士学位。他曾获政治经济学领域著名的“弗兰克·赛德曼奖”；他曾因对预防核战争的相关行为的研究而获“国家自然科学奖”。其主要著作有《国民收入行为》、《国防经济学》、《冲突的战略》等等。

Thomas Schelling is a political economist "conspicuous for wandering" an errant economist. In "Choice and Consequence," he ventures into the area where rationality is ambiguous in order to look at the tricks people use to try to quit smoking or lose weight. He explores topics as awesome as nuclear terrorism, as sordid as blackmail, as ineffable as daydreaming, as intimidating a...(展开全部)

The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories. With the contributors to this volume, they offer a unifying perspective, which begins with a simple insight: students of international relati...(展开全部)

In the 2nd edition of Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory, Kerry E. Back offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to and overview of asset pricing. Intended as a textbook for asset pricing theory courses at the Ph.D. or Masters in Quantitative Finance level with extensive exercises and a solutions manual available for professors, the book is also an essential refer...(展开全部)

In Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory, Kerry E. Back at last offers what is at once a welcoming introduction to and a comprehensive overview of asset pricing. Useful as a textbook for graduate students in finance, with extensive exercises and a solutions manual available for professors, the book will also serve as an essential reference for scholars and professionals, as...(展开全部)

Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to answer this question, explaining why economic players know what they know--and how the information they have affects collective outcomes. Instead of assuming what people d...(展开全部)