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)

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)

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)

The nine essays in this volume reexamine the “hundred days” in 1898 and focus particularly on the aftermath of this reform movement. Their collective goal is to rethink the reforms not as a failed attempt at modernizing China but as a period in which many of the institutions that have since structured China began. Among the subjects covered are the reform movement, the reformer...(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)

In a closely observed study of two Indonesian towns, Clifford Geertz analyzes the process of economic change in terms of people and behavior patterns rather than income and production. One of the rare empirical studies of the earliest stages of the transition to modern economic growth, Peddlers and Princes offers important facts and generalizations for the economist, the sociol...(展开全部)

The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern Europe and Latin America have failed with the result that entire economic systems on b...(展开全部)

亚当·普沃斯基教授，当代美国著名政治学家。1966年在美国西北大学获政治学博士学位，先后任教于华盛顿大学、芝加哥大学与纽约大学，到瑞士、德国、法国、智利、印度、波兰等多个国家做过访问学者。学术研究成果斐然。除了大量的学术论文外，普沃斯基教授还独著、合著或编辑出版了一系列在国际上有重大影响力的学术著作。如《民主、责任与代表》、《可持续性民主》、《资本主义下的国家与经济》等，许多著作一版再版，并被翻译成葡萄牙语、西班牙语、日语、韩语、汉语、土耳其语等多国文字。本书是他的代表作之一。

亚当·普沃斯基教授，当代美国著名政治学家。1966年在美国西北大学获政治学博士学位，先后任教于华盛顿大学、芝加哥大学与纽约大学，到瑞士、德国、法国、智利、印度、波兰等多个国家做过访问学者。学术研究成果斐然。除了大量的学术论文外，普沃斯基教授还独著、合著或编辑出版了一系列在国际上有重大影响力的学术著作。如《民主、责任与代表》、《可持续性民主》、《资本主义下的国家与经济》等，许多著作一版再版，并被翻译成葡萄牙语、西班牙语、日语、韩语、汉语、土耳其语等多国文字。本书是他的代表作之一。