Awards Award Winner Joint AFEE-EAEPE Veblen Prize 2007 It is widely believed that current disparities in economic, political, and social outcomes reflect distinct institutions. Institutions are invoked to explain why some countries are rich and others poor, some democratic and others dictatorial. But arguments of this sort gloss over the question of what institutions are, how t...(展开全部)

Awards Award Winner Joint AFEE-EAEPE Veblen Prize 2007 It is widely believed that current disparities in economic, political, and social outcomes reflect distinct institutions. Institutions are invoked to explain why some countries are rich and others poor, some democratic and others dictatorial. But arguments of this sort gloss over the question of what institutions are, how t...(展开全部)

It is widely believed that current disparities in economic, political, and social outcomes reflect distinct institutions. Institutions are invoked to explain why some countries are rich and others poor, some democratic and others dictatorial. But arguments of this sort gloss over the question of what institutions are, how they come about, and why they persist. They also fail to...(展开全部)

A penetrating look into the extreme plutocracy Vladimir Putin has created and its implications for Russia’s future This insightful study explores how the economic system Vladimir Putin has developed in Russia works to consolidate control over the country. By appointing his close associates as heads of state enterprises and by giving control of the FSB and the judiciary to his f...(展开全部)

From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitt's Buried Cube, Depositions is about taking down images and about images that anticipate being taken down. Foretelling their own depositions, as well as their re-elevations in contexts far from those in which they were made, the images studied in this book reveal themselves to be untimely--no truer ...(展开全部)

From late medieval reenactments of the Deposition from the Cross to Sol Lewitt's Buried Cube, Depositions is about taking down images and about images that anticipate being taken down. Foretelling their own depositions, as well as their re-elevations in contexts far from those in which they were made, the images studied in this book reveal themselves to be untimely--no truer ...(展开全部)

[美] 彭慕兰 Kenneth Pomeranz 著名历史学家，曾任美国历史学会会长（2013—2014），“加州学派”代表人物。1980年于康奈尔大学获学士学位，1988年于耶鲁大学获博士学位，师从史景迁。现任美国芝加哥大学历史系教授。主要著作有：《腹地的构建——华北 内地的国家、社会和经济（1853—1937）》（荣获1994年费正清奖）、《大分流：欧洲、中国及现代世界经济的发展》（荣获2000年费正清奖、2001年世界历史协会年度图书奖）、《贸易打造的世界——1400年至今的社会、文化与世界经济》（与史蒂文•托皮克合著）等。 [美]史蒂文•托皮克 Steven Topik 美国加州大学尔湾分校历史学系教授，研究方向有：拉美史、世界贸易史、咖啡经济史等。主要著作包括：《巴西的政治经济学：1889—1930》《贸易与炮艇：帝国时代的美国与巴西》《全...(展开全部)

The extraordinary account of Margaret Thatcher's life up to her dramatic election as the first woman Prime Minister of England in 1979. Margaret Thatcher was the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. This is the story of her remarkable life in her own words. In this second volume of her memoirs, following 'The Downing Street Years', she writes candidly abo...(展开全部)