With little domestic fanfare and even less attention internationally, Japan has been reinventing itself since the 1990s, dramatically changing its political economy, from one managed by regulations to one with a neoliberal orientation. Rebuilding from the economic misfortunes of its recent past, the country retains a formidable economy and its political system is healthier than...(展开全部)

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrializat...(展开全部)

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others - and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrializat...(展开全部)

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others - and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrializat...(展开全部)

Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrializat...(展开全部)

理查德·J.伯恩斯坦（1932— ） 1958年获得耶鲁大学博士学位，然后留校任教。现为美国纽约社会研究新学院哲学系讲座教授。伯恩斯坦主要研究实用主义、社会政治哲学、批判理论等。著有《实践与行动》（1971）、《超越客观主义和相对主义》（1983）、《汉娜·阿伦特与犹太问题》（1996）等等。伯恩斯坦是美国实用主义和哈贝马斯思想的重量级研究者和诠释者，后实证主义和后经验主义的主要旗手之一，也是批判理论的倡导者。

理查德·J.伯恩斯坦（1932— ） 1958年获得耶鲁大学博士学位，然后留校任教。现为美国纽约社会研究新学院哲学系讲座教授。伯恩斯坦主要研究实用主义、社会政治哲学、批判理论等。著有《实践与行动》（1971）、《超越客观主义和相对主义》（1983）、《汉娜·阿伦特与犹太问题》（1996）等等。伯恩斯坦是美国实用主义和哈贝马斯思想的重量级研究者和诠释者，后实证主义和后经验主义的主要旗手之一，也是批判理论的倡导者。

In this volume, Bernstein forsees and outlines the development of a social theory that is at once empirical, interpretive, and critical.

The cities and the regions of the world are being transformed under the combined impact of a restructuring of the capitalist system and a technological revolution. This is the thesis of this book, now in paperback. Castells not only brings together an impressive array of evidence to support it but puts forward a new body of theory to explain it. He analyzes the interaction betw...(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)