Mark Blyth argues that economic ideas are powerful political tools as used by domestic groups in order to effect change since whoever defines what the economy is, what is wrong with it, and what would improve it, has a profound political resource in their possession. Blyth analyzes the 1930s and 1970s, two periods of deep-seated institutional change that characterized the twent...(展开全部)

Continuing his groundbreaking analysis of economic structures, Douglass North develops an analytical framework for explaining the ways in which institutions and institutional change affect the performance of economies, both at a given time and over time. Institutions exist, he argues, due to the uncertainties involved in human interaction; they are the constraints devised to st...(展开全部)

With the Qing Dynasty reform efforts (1901–1911), abolition of the civil service examination (1905), and the end of the monarchy (1912), the first three decades of the twentieth century brought important changes to the elite of Zhejiang Province. This book examines the social backgrounds, public activities, careers, and decision-making of local and provincial elites—that is, no...(展开全部)

斯蒂芬·R.安德森博士，耶鲁大学语言学教授，美国语言学学会主席，国际语言学常设委员会副主席，美国人文与科学院院士。主要著作：《二十世纪音系学》、《非词素词法学》、《附着语素理论面面观》、《杜利特尔医生的幻觉——论动物与人类语言的独特性》。

斯蒂芬·R.安德森博士，耶鲁大学语言学教授，美国语言学学会主席，国际语言学常设委员会副主席，美国人文与科学院院士。主要著作：《二十世纪音系学》、《非词素词法学》、《附着语素理论面面观》、《杜利特尔医生的幻觉——论动物与人类语言的独特性》。

For courses in Twentieth Century Europe. Written by a noted intellectual historian, this concise, interpretive history of twentieth-century European society and civilization surveys the full range of social, political, economic, cultural, and diplomatic events - from pre-World War I to the 1990s.

A.J·艾耶尔（1910-1989），英国伦敦大学和牛津大学哲学、逻辑学教授。逻辑实证主义的著名人物，曾参与维与纳小组的活动。

Review Relying on archival sources and fieldwork, Grove provides a detailed discussion of 20th-century development of industry in the Gaoyang industrial district in the context of the changing political economy of China. . . . Grove's study shows that the more localized instances of the Mao-era socialist state, as well as economic practices that predate the 1949 revolution, bot...(展开全部)

This book is about institutional change, how to recognize it, when it occurs, and the mechanisms that cause it to happen. It is the first book to identify problems with the "new institutional analysis," which has emerged as one of the dominant approaches to the study of organizations, economic and political sociology, comparative political economy, politics, and international r...(展开全部)

In this bold, sweeping study of the development of Western economies, Douglass C. North sets forth a new view of societal change. At the core of Professor North's investigation is the question of property rights, the arrangements individuals and groups have made through history to deal with the fundamental economic problem of scarce resources. In six theoretical chapters, Profe...(展开全部)