路德维希·冯·米塞斯 Ludwig von Mises，1881—1973 奥地利经济学大师，哲学家，古典自由主义思想家。撰写了大量思想深刻的启蒙著作，被视为“奥地利经济学派”的理论领袖之一。在纳粹占领欧洲前夕，于1940年移居美国，担任纽约大学访问教授，从事讲学与写作。他于1949年出版经济学巨著《人的行为》，为奥地利学经济学派奠定了坚实的社会学和哲学基础。他的理论深刻地影响了美国20世纪的社会思潮，并扩散到世界各国，促进了古典自由主义的复苏。米塞斯是亚当·斯密之后最重要的市场经济理论家。 夏道平 1907—1995 湖北省大冶县人，1935年毕业于国立武汉大学经济学系，留校任教。抗战时从戎，后在政界任职，1949年迁台。参加筹办《自由中国》并任编委和主笔。杂志被封后，在台湾多所大学任教。夏道平先生是著名经济学家、政论家、翻译家，是台湾知识分子的代...(展开全部)

What does it mean to be responsible for our actions? In this brief and elegant study, Giorgio Agamben traces our most profound moral intuitions back to their roots in the sphere of law and punishment. Moral accountability, human free agency, and even the very concept of cause and effect all find their origin in the language of the trial, which Western philosophy and theology bo...(展开全部)

Heidegger's lectures delivered at the University of Freiburg in 1936 on Schelling's Treatise On Human Freedom came at a crucial turning point in Heidegger's development. He had just begun his study to work out the term \u201cEreignis.\u201d Heidegger's interpretation of Schelling's work reveals a dimension of his thinking which has never been previously published in English. Wh...(展开全部)

What is a thing? What is an object? Tristan Garcia decisively overturns 100 years of Heideggerian orthodoxy about the supposedly derivative nature of objects to put forward a new theory of ontology that gives us deep insights into the world and our place in it. Garcia's original and systematic formal ontology of things strips them of any determination, intensity or depth. From ...(展开全部)

Imagine each family as a kind of little factory--a multiperson unit producing meals, health, skills, children, and self-esteem from market goods and the time, skills, and knowledge of its members. This is only one of the remarkable concepts explored by Gary Becker in his landmark work on the family. Becker applies economic theory to the most sensitive and fateful personal decis...(展开全部)

What is a human right? How can we tell whether a proposed human right really is one? How do we establish the content of particular human rights, and how do we resolve conflicts between them? These are pressing questions for philosophers, political theorists, jurisprudents, international lawyers, and activists. James Griffin offers answers in his compelling new investigation of ...(展开全部)

On Human Conduct is composed of three connected essays. Each has its own concern: the first with theoretical understanding, and with human conduct in general; the second with an ideal mode of human relationship which the author has called civil association; and the third with that ambiguous, historic association commonly called a modern European state. Running through the work ...(展开全部)

In this elegant critique, Amartya Sen argues that welfare economics can be enriched by paying more explicit attention to ethics, and that modern ethical studies can also benefit from a closer contact with economies. He argues further that even predictive and descriptive economics can be helped by making more room for welfare-economic considerations in the explanation of behavio...(展开全部)

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay' - Oliver Goldsmith. Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed, this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains of our sense of shared purpose. But we have forgotten how to think abou...(展开全部)