More than 130 years after Karl Marx’s death and 150 years after the publication of his opus magnum Capital: Critique of Political Economy, capitalism keeps being haunted by period crises. The most recent capitalist crisis has brought back attention to Marx’s works. This volume presents 18 contributions that show how Marx’s analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, w...(展开全部)

In this pathbreaking work, now with a new introduction, Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky show that, contrary to the usual image of the news media as cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitous in their search for truth and defense of justice, in their actual practice they defend the economic, social, and political agendas of the privileged groups that dominate domestic society, th...(展开全部)

爱德华·S．赫尔曼(Edward S．Herman)，美国宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿学院金融学荣誉教授。著有《企业控制》(Corporate Control)、《企业权力》(Corporate Power)、《真正的恐怖网络：现实中的恐怖主义与宣传>(The Real Network of Terrorism: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda)、《示范选举：美国在多米尼加共和国、越南和萨尔瓦多操控的选举》(Demonstration Elections：U．S．-Staged Elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador)等。 诺姆·乔姆斯基(Noam Chomsky)，美国麻省理工学院语言学与哲学系教授。著述顿丰，包括《乔姆斯基读本》(The C...(展开全部)

爱德华·S．赫尔曼(Edward S．Herman)，美国宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿学院金融学荣誉教授。著有《企业控制》(Corporate Control)、《企业权力》(Corporate Power)、《真正的恐怖网络：现实中的恐怖主义与宣传>(The Real Network of Terrorism: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda)、《示范选举：美国在多米尼加共和国、越南和萨尔瓦多操控的选举》(Demonstration Elections：U．S．-Staged Elections in the Dominican Republic, Vietnam, and El Salvador)等。 诺姆·乔姆斯基(Noam Chomsky)，美国麻省理工学院语言学与哲学系教授。著述顿丰，包括《乔姆斯基读本》(The C...(展开全部)

Karl Marx's writings provide a uniquely insightful explanation of the inner workings of capitalism, which other schools of thought generally have difficulty explaining. From this vantage point, Marx's works can help to explain important features and economic problems of our age, and the limits of their possible solutions. For example, the necessity and origin of money, the grow...(展开全部)

The first comprehensive guide to the discipline of political economy and its application to media and communication studies, The Political Economy of Communication examines the ways that political economy has been used in communication studies. Author Vincent Mosco looks at the debates around political economy and its relationship to a range of disciplines in social science and...(展开全部)

'Vincent Mosco's heavily revised and thoroughly updated "Political Economy of Communication" is a masterpiece. (It) is the one single indispensable book that all media students and scholars need to read to understand this vital and growing area of research' - Robert W. McChesney, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 'Mosco has done all students of communication a great s...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1871, The Theory of Political Economy was the first text to introduce the concept of utility theory into economics and the use of calculus as a way to simplify and present economic problems. In this classic work Jevons re-formulated the central problem of economics as one of how to maximise overall utility with a set amount of means of production. Utilit...(展开全部)