这结集的正文长达600多页。少写英语文章被朋友骂了数十年，竟然那样洋洋大观，应该气煞巴赛尔（Yoram Barzel）！是《佃农理论》一书之外的可以拿出来表演一下的英语论著。有两篇太短，高斯建议拿开。有两篇发表过的因为包括在一篇没有发表过的长文之内，取后一者而弃前两者。有两篇题材一样，长短不同，都发表过，舍短留长。除此之外，一篇内文重复前文的一部分，删除一节。这样处理，不同文章的思维还有不少重复的地方，不精简删改，因为看似重复，其实每次重复都加了一点变化，读者按脚注说明的日期分先后，可以跟踪作者的思维发展。除了这些，原文一律保留，就是今天认为应该修改的也保留不改。一篇写于1988年，介绍佛利民（Milton Friedman）学说的，找不到文稿，成为漏网之鱼，沧海遗珠也。最可惜是20多年前替石油公司做顾问时写下的两英寸厚的研究报告，艾智仁（Armen...(展开全部)

这结集的正文长达600多页。少写英语文章被朋友骂了数十年，竟然那样洋洋大观，应该气煞巴赛尔（Yoram Barzel）！是《佃农理论》一书之外的可以拿出来表演一下的英语论著。有两篇太短，高斯建议拿开。有两篇发表过的因为包括在一篇没有发表过的长文之内，取后一者而弃前两者。有两篇题材一样，长短不同，都发表过，舍短留长。除此之外，一篇内文重复前文的一部分，删除一节。这样处理，不同文章的思维还有不少重复的地方，不精简删改，因为看似重复，其实每次重复都加了一点变化，读者按脚注说明的日期分先后，可以跟踪作者的思维发展。除了这些，原文一律保留，就是今天认为应该修改的也保留不改。一篇写于1988年，介绍佛利民（Milton Friedman）学说的，找不到文稿，成为漏网之鱼，沧海遗珠也。最可惜是20多年前替石油公司做顾问时写下的两英寸厚的研究报告，艾智仁（Armen...(展开全部)

Allyn Young is one of the central figures in the development of American economic thought, and is one of the originators of modern endogenous growth theory. This book allows full appreciation of the full extent of Young's work because many of his most significant contributions are buried in obscure journals and unsigned articles. This volume addresses this by reprinting much of...(展开全部)

This book makes a selection of writings by the great medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern, available to the wider audience they deserve. A collection of writings by the great medieval historian, Sir Richard Southern. Offers a fascinating insight into the beliefs and ideas that underpinned Southern’s work. Contains the series of reflections on medieval historical writi...(展开全部)

Barnard was prompted by Vilfredo Pareto's seminal four volume work Mind and Society to apply his theories of sociology to management studies. Barnard's study of interaction between people in economic settings was contentious in that he concluded that human behaviour within these settings is largely non-economic and instead approaches ritualistic symbolism.

The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. Drawing on the history and philos...(展开全部)

Conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences provokes unnecessary confusion and conflict, and indeed is often based more on analysts' imaginations than actors' realities. The Explanation of Social Action lays out a sustained critique of this understanding, pointing out that the root of the problem is an attempt to counterpose two rad...(展开全部)

The Explanation of Social Action is a sustained critique of the conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences. It makes the strong argument that the traditional understanding involves asking questions that have no clear foundation and provoke an unnecessary tension between lay and expert vocabularies. Drawing on the history and philos...(展开全部)

Conventional understanding of what it means to "explain" something in the social sciences provokes unnecessary confusion and conflict, and indeed is often based more on analysts' imaginations than actors' realities. The Explanation of Social Action lays out a sustained critique of this understanding, pointing out that the root of the problem is an attempt to counterpose two rad...(展开全部)