Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today’s socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion—from professional ...(展开全部)

布莱恩·阿瑟 著名经济学家，研究经济正反馈机制的先驱。 在加州大学伯克利分校获得经济学硕士学位和运筹学博士学位，37岁就成为斯坦福大学*年轻的经济学教授。 1987年获得“古根海姆奖”，1990年获得“熊比特奖”。 1987年进入圣塔菲研究所，投身于跨学科的复杂性科学领域。1988年，主持圣塔菲的研究项目。他是圣塔菲的元老级人物，也是复杂性科学的奠基人。他因成绩突出而荣获首届“拉格朗日奖”。 对技术与科学、经济之间的关系，他见解独特，是一位技术思想家。 2014年，由湛庐文化引进出版其著作《技术的本质》（The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves）。

The term "tinker" calls to mind nomadic medieval vendors who operate on the fringe of formal society. Excluded from elite circles and characterized by an ability to leverage minimal resources, these tradesmen live and die by their ability to adapt their stores to the popular tastes of the day. In Delhi in the 21st century, an extensive network of informal marketplaces, or bazaa...(展开全部)

Geoffrey Garrett challenges the conventional wisdom about the domestic effects of the globalization of markets in the industrial democracies: the erosion of national autonomy and the demise of leftist alternatives to the free market. He demonstrates that globalization has strengthened the relationship between the political power of the left and organized labour and economic pol...(展开全部)

Global Complexity is a path-breaking book, which examines how the ideas of chaos and complexity can help us to analyse global processes. Urry argues that there are major advantages in thinking about global processes in this way. The idea of complexity emphasizes that systems are balanced between order and chaos, that a system does not necessarily move towards equilibrium and th...(展开全部)

Global Complexity is a path-breaking book, which examines how the ideas of chaos and complexity can help us to analyse global processes. Urry argues that there are major advantages in thinking about global processes in this way. The idea of complexity emphasizes that systems are balanced between order and chaos, that a system does not necessarily move towards equilibrium and th...(展开全部)

Andre Gunder Frank asks us to re-orient our views away from Eurocentrism - to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel, and Wallerstein. Frank ...(展开全部)

Andre Gunder Frank asks us to re-orient our views away from Eurocentrism - to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a bold challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel, and Wallerstein. Frank ...(展开全部)