"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an eloquent, pointed, and personal look at the question of whether culture determines econom...(展开全部)

The social sciences have long been based upon contrasts drawn between the militaristic societies of the past, and the capitalist or a industrial societies of the present. But how valid are such contrasts, given that the current era is one stamped by the impact of war and by the intensive development of sophisticated weaponry? In setting out to address this and similar questions...(展开全部)

While it is often acknowledged that we live in a 'postindustrial' age, our economic concepts have lagged far behind our postmodern sensibility. In this incisive new work, the well-known sociologist, Fred Block, sheds obsolete and shopworn economic analysis by presenting a bold, sweeping reconceptualization of the economy. "Postindustrial Possibilities" provides a fresh understa...(展开全部)

雅克·巴尔赞（Jacques Barzun）——学者、教师、编辑和批评家——在众多领域堪称权威，七十年来，他的三十余部著作可谓包罗万象，包括音乐、思想史、当代艺术、科学评论，甚至还有侦探小说的导读。1927年至1975年在哥伦比亚学院任教，历任塞思·洛历史学教授、教务长和院长。他也是英国皇家艺术学会会员，并且曾两度担任美国艺术暨文学学会主席。 他的代表作包括《达尔文、马克思、瓦格纳》、《柏辽兹与浪漫世纪》、《美国教师》、《智性之家》、《临行赠言》等。

阿尔弗雷德·索恩—雷特尔（Alfred Sohn—Rethel）（1899—1990）。德国著名的国民经济学家和社会哲学家，曾任不莱梅大学教授。早年曾师从奥地利马克思主义学派经济学家勒德尔（Emil Lederer），于1928年在海德堡获得国民经济学博士学位。其哲学思想接近法兰克福学派，从20世纪20年代开始便与批判理论的代表人物阿多诺、霍克海默和本雅明等交往密切。二战期间流亡英国，曾为丘吉尔等人从事过经济分析，并长期与马克思主义者汤普森交往。雷特尔的哲学思想即在本书中系统阐述的唯物主义认识理论，曾在20世纪60年代的激进学生运动中产生重要影响。作者还著有《认识的社会学理论》、《商品形式与思维形式》等。

These 14 essays covering a wide range of subjects of great current interest reflect the continuous evolution of the author's thought from 1951 to 1961. Range and flexibility characterize Mr. Gerschenkron's dynamic approach to Europe's industrial history. Connecting evolution in individual countries with their degree of economic backwardness, he presents the industrialization of...(展开全部)

奥维•洛夫格伦（Orvar Löfgren），瑞典隆德大学（Lund University）欧洲民族学教授，主要关注文化分析这一新研究方法的运用与发展。其研究课题包括中产阶级生活的兴起、文化与经济，以及当下人们日常生活中常常碰到的“超负荷工作”与“劳累过度”问题等。著有On Holiday：A History of Vacationing（1999），Culture, Magic and Economy（2005），Off the Edge: Experiments in Cultural Analysis（2006）等。 乔纳森•弗雷克曼（Jonas Frykman），瑞典隆德大学欧洲民族学教授，主要研究身体、记忆和近现代欧洲的日常生活。其专题研究十分广泛，包括维多利亚时代的中产阶级生活、日常习惯、欧洲文化的地方化，以及福利国家与地方文化、日常生活...(展开全部)

安东尼・吉登斯（AnthonyGiddens）英国著名社会理论家和社会学家，是当代欧洲社会思想界中少有的大师级学者。他生于1938年，曾在赫尔大学、伦敦经济学院和剑桥大学学习，1963年在莱斯特大学授课，1970年转为剑桥皇家学院院士，现任剑桥大学教授。

Duncan Kennedy is one of the most prominent and influential legal theorists of the day. This is a major effort summarizing, clarifying, and elaborating his views on the core questions of jurisprudence. Kennedy's argument is about the political nature of legal, and especially judicial, decisionmaking. It follows directly and self-consciously in a centuries-old line of debate tha...(展开全部)

Alfred Sohn-Rethel’s Intellectual and Manual Labour is one of the major texts of post-war Marxist theory. A tremendous influence on the major writers of the Frankfurt School, with ongoing relevance to current debates about value, abstraction, and domination, Sohn-Rethel’s ideas are here presented at their fullest scope and with their greatest theoretical clarity. Out of print f...(展开全部)