Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. Slobodian begins in Austr...(展开全部)

Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations tha...(展开全部)

Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm CH, FBA, (born June 9, 1917) is a British Marxist historian and author. 艾瑞克·约翰·欧内斯特·霍布斯邦（Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm，1917年6月9日－）英国历史学家及作家。 霍布斯邦于1917年出生于埃及亚力山卓，并成长于维也纳和柏林 他的父母Leopold Percy Hobsbaum和Nelly Grün皆为犹太人。一个行政上的疏失使他的姓从Hobsbaum变成Hobsbawm，and the name stuck.虽然他的家庭居住于德语系国家，但他的双亲对霍布斯邦及他的妹妹萳西使用的是英语。 他的父亲于1929年逝世后，他开始担任互惠生（au pair）和英文家教。在他十四岁时随着她母亲的去世，...(展开全部)

乔纳森·弗兰岑（Jonathan Franzen） 美国小说家、随笔作家。 1959年生于伊利诺伊州。1996年在《哈泼氏》杂志发表长篇随笔《偶尔做梦》，从此受到广泛关注。迄今为止，出版有小说《纠正》《自由》《纯洁》，回忆录《不舒适地带：个人史》，以及随笔集《如何独处》《地球尽头的尽头》等。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nat...(展开全部)

A sweeping new history of how climate change and disease helped bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases played in the collapse of Rome’s power—a story of nat...(展开全部)

This book examines "the great contraction" of 2007 - 2010 within the context of the neoliberal globalization that began in the early 1980s. This new phase of capitalism greatly enriched the top 5 percent of Americans, including capitalists and financial managers, but at a significant cost to the country as a whole. Declining domestic investment in manufacturing, unsustainable h...(展开全部)

French economists Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy proceed from the somewhat heterodox proposition that ruling ideas arise not from their persuasive power or inner logic but from the interest of ruling groups...Duménil and Lévy move directly to the social and political history that led us to this turn, the underlying situation in which such intellectually bankrupt ideas could ...(展开全部)

The Birth of Tragedy (1872) was Nietzsche's first book. Its youthful faults were exposed by Nietzsche in the brilliant "Attempt at a Self-Criticism" which he added to the new edition of 1886. But the book, whatever its excesses, remains one of the most relevant statements on tragedy ever penned. It exploded the conception of Greek culture that was prevalent down through the Vic...(展开全部)

In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes―both human and literary―that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird...(展开全部)