In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First World vs. Third World, and even the sevenfold continental system are simplistic and ...(展开全部)

马丁•E. 刘易士（Martin W. Lewis），斯坦福大学高级讲师，曾任教于乔治•华盛顿大学和杜克大学。当前研究方向为全球空间关系的核心-边缘模型，主要关注其在菲律宾和世界历史问题上的应用。曾出版Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism（1994）和Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986（1992）等。 —————————— 卡伦•E. 魏根（Kären E. Wigen），斯坦福大学东亚研究中心主任，教授。主要研究领域包括东亚历史地理、日本的早期现代性、想...(展开全部)

In this thoughtful and engaging critique, geographer Martin W. Lewis and historian Kären Wigen reexamine the basic geographical divisions we take for granted, and challenge the unconscious spatial frameworks that govern the way we perceive the world. Arguing that notions of East vs. West, First World vs. Third World, and even the sevenfold continental system are simplistic and ...(展开全部)

马丁•E. 刘易士（Martin W. Lewis），斯坦福大学高级讲师，曾任教于乔治•华盛顿大学和杜克大学。当前研究方向为全球空间关系的核心-边缘模型，主要关注其在菲律宾和世界历史问题上的应用。曾出版Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism（1994）和Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986（1992）等。 —————————— 卡伦•E. 魏根（Kären E. Wigen），斯坦福大学东亚研究中心主任，教授。主要研究领域包括东亚历史地理、日本的早期现代性、想...(展开全部)

In The Economics of Rights, Co-operation and Welfare, Robert Sugden sets out to answer a question that lies at the heart of economics and politics: how can individuals coordinate their behaviour in the absence of central law-enforcing agencies? Using the tools of evolutionary game theory, Sugden shows how self-enforcing conventions of property and reciprocity can evolve sponta...(展开全部)

A textbook that examines how societies reach decisions about the use and allocation of economic resources While economic research emphasizes the importance of governmental institutions for growth and progress, conventional public policy textbooks tend to focus on macroeconomic policies and on tax-and-spend decisions. Markets, State, and People stresses the basics of welfare eco...(展开全部)

No judgement of taste is innocent. In a word, we are all snobs. Pierre Bourdieu brilliantly illuminates this situation of the middle class in the modern world. France's leading sociologist focusses here on the French bourgeoisie, its tastes and preferences. Distinction is at once a vast ethnography of contemporary France and a dissection of the bourgeois mind. In the course of...(展开全部)