Few periods in history compare to the Great Depression. Stock market crashes, bread lines, bank runs, and wild currency speculation were worldwide phenomena - all occurring with war looming in the background. This period has provided economists with a marvelous laboratory for studying the links between economic policies and institutions and economic performance. Here, Ben Berna...(展开全部)

In this highly acclaimed work first published in 1974, Glen H. Elder Jr. presents the first longitudinal study of a Depression cohort. He follows 167 individuals born in 1920?1921 from their elementary school days in Oakland, California, through the 1960s. Using a combined historical, social, and psychological approach, Elder assesses the influence of the economic crisis on the...(展开全部)

默里•罗斯巴德((Murray N. Rothbard, 1926-1995)， 美国经济学家、历史学家、自然法理论家，奥地利经济学派的代表人物。在哥伦比亚大学取得学士、硕士和博士学位，师承约瑟夫•朵夫曼（Joseph Dorfman）。生前主要担任内华达大学经济学S. J. Hall讲座杰出教授。他曾任米塞斯研究院（Ludwig von Mises Institute）学术事务副会长，《奥地利经济学评论》（Review of Austrian Economics）的编辑，也曾长期参与纽约大学举办的米塞斯研讨会。主要著作有：《1819年大恐慌》（The Panic of 1819）、《人、经济与国家》（Man, Economy, and State）、《美国大萧条》（America’s Great Depression）、 《权力与市场》（Power...(展开全部)

室利•阿罗频多(1872－1950)，印度 “三圣”（圣雄甘地、圣诗泰戈尔、圣哲阿罗频多）之一，居印度近代以来最著名的精神哲学家之列。民族主义者，自由斗士，诗人，哲学家，瑜伽修行者。 　　7岁就去英国求学，毕业于剑桥大学。21岁时回国，开始研究本土文化，渐渐参加独立运动。到34岁已为名教授而被推为大学校长；到36岁已为秘密结社之魁首，主持暴动暗杀等事。同年其秘密结社败露被捕，入狱一年，诉讼获释。获释后仍继续其爱国运动，但得讯又将被逮捕，于是间关抵达南印度之一海滨埠头，名“捧地舍里”（pondicherry），当时是法国属地，为英国势力所不及，时正38岁（1910）。从此隐居著述，凡四十年，以至去世，从未离该地。阿罗频多一生著述有一百多种，其代表性的著作有《神圣人生论》、《薄伽梵歌论》、《综合瑜伽论》等。 　　在中国，其思想的研究者和传播者为徐梵澄（1...(展开全部)

Setting Out on the Great Way brings together different perspectives on the origins and early history of Mahāyāna Buddhism and delves into selected aspects of its formative period. As the variety of the religion which conquered East Asia and also provided the matrix for the later development of Buddhist Tantra or Vajrayāna, Mahāyāna is regarded as one of the most significant for...(展开全部)

Just as today's observers struggle to justify the workings of the free market in the wake of a global economic crisis, an earlier generation of economists revisited their worldviews following the Great Depression. The Great Persuasion is an intellectual history of that project. Angus Burgin traces the evolution of postwar economic thought in order to reconsider many of the most...(展开全部)

This volume presents for the first time in English the work of one of the most important French theorists of today. The selection represents the whole of Schefer's career, from the 1960s, when he was influenced by structuralism, to his more lyrical and autobiographical essays of the 1990s, which meditate on the role of the spectator in relation to art practice. Schefer consider...(展开全部)

Two most important essays by the famous German mathematician: one provides an arithmetic, rigorous foundation for the irrational numbers, thereby a rigorous meaning of continuity in analysis. The other is an attempt to give logical basis for transfinite numbers and properties of the natural numbers.

A masterclass for those who love reading literature and for those who aspire to write it. “Read everything that is good for the good of your soul. Then learn to read as a writer, to search out that hidden machinery, which it is the business of art to conceal and the business of the apprentice to comprehend.” In The Hidden Machinery, critically acclaimed and New York Times bests...(展开全部)

斯特兹·特克尔，美国口述史权威、著名作家、广播节目制作人。1966年，特克尔的第一本口述史著作《断街》出版，旋即成为畅销书，之后他一部部推出人们颇为关心的讨论话题，每部都在当时引起巨大反响，包括《艰难时代》《美国梦寻》《正义的战争》等，曾获普利策非虚构文学奖。