Originally, economics was called political economy, and those studying it readily accepted that economic decisions are made in a political world. But economics eventually separated itself from politics to pursue rigorous methods of analyzing individual behavior and markets. Recently, an increasing number of economists have turned their attention to the old question of how polit...(展开全部)

Originally, economics was called political economy, and those studying it readily accepted that economic decisions are made in a political world. But economics eventually separated itself from politics to pursue rigorous methods of analyzing individual behavior and markets. Recently, an increasing number of economists have turned their attention to the old question of how polit...(展开全部)

The purpose of this text is to introduce concepts for studying relationships between states and markets. The economy and the state are thus analyzed as networks of relationships between principals and agents, each occupying a particular position in the institutional structure. The book then analyzes systematically the effect of the organization of the state on the functioning o...(展开全部)

理查德·雷恩，美国锡拉丘兹大学麦克斯威尔学院政治学博士，现任美国新泽西州立罗格斯大学政治科学教授，管理学院国际企业博士项目组成员，政治科学系民主转型项目组主任。长期致力于政治经济体制的比较研究，曾出版专著《探求正义：学校财政改革的政治学》(1978)， 《新泽西州政治》(1979)，《娱乐场所管理政策：产业政策管制分析》(1986)， 《产业与政治：比较视角下的美国》(1993)等。

This book provides a comprehensive introductory guide to the political economy and finance. There has been a strong revival of Western Marxist political economy in recent years, but despite the importance of financial instability, output in the area of finance has been meager. This paucity of analysis has to be confronted, even if only to clarify the basic socio-economic relati...(展开全部)

Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic life and its connection to the rest of society. In "Tocqueville's Political Economy", Richard Swedberg shows that Tocqueville had a highly original and suggestive approach to economic...(展开全部)

While scholars of East Asia have often focused on the significance of culture and Confucianism for economic growth, this book examines the affective or emotional dimension of capitalist development in the region. Here, affect is defined as felt quality that gives meaning and imagination to social, political, and economic processes, and as this work demonstrates, it can provide ...(展开全部)