From humans to hermit crabs to deep water plankton, all living things compete for locally limiting resources. This universal truth unites three bodies of thought - economics, evolution, and history - that have developed largely in mutual isolation. Here, Geerat Vermeij undertakes a groundbreaking and provocative exploration of the facts and theories of biology, economics, and g...(展开全部)

维拉·扎马尼（Vera Zamagni），牛津大学经济史博士，博洛尼亚大学经济史教授、约翰斯·霍普金斯大学世界经济高级客座教授，曾任意大利艾米利亚-罗马涅（Emilia-Romagna）大区副区长。她是European Review of Economic History的联合创办者、il Mulino科学委员会委员、意大利经济史学会（Italian Economic History Society）前秘书长，曾出版《意大利经济史》（Introduzione Alla Storia Economica D'italia）、《全球化的故事》（Una Storia Globale）等十余部著作。

The final work of the great sociologist, economist, and political scientist starts with descriptions and analyses of the agrarian systems, and then explores manorial system, guilds, and early capitalism, organization of industry and mining, development of commerce, technical requisites for transporting goods, banking systems, evolution of capitalism and capitalistic spirit.

经济思想史上里程碑式的伟大著作，提供了新古典经济学方法论的标准表述。

During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of the country into one of the most populated, industrialized, militarized, and polluted parts of the Arctic. This transformation suggests, above all, that environmental relations fundamentally shaped the Soviet experience. Interactions with the natural world both enabled industrial...(展开全部)

In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the n...(展开全部)

In one of the first ever environmental histories of the Ottoman Empire, Alan Mikhail examines relations between the empire and its most lucrative province of Egypt. Based on both the local records of various towns and villages in rural Egypt and the imperial orders of the Ottoman state, this book charts how changes in the control of natural resources fundamentally altered the n...(展开全部)

During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula in the northwest corner of the country into one of the most populated, industrialized, militarized, and polluted parts of the Arctic. This transformation suggests, above all, that environmental relations fundamentally shaped the Soviet experience. Interactions with the natural world both enabled industrial...(展开全部)

艾伦·格林斯潘（Alan Greenspan） 1926年3月6日生于纽约市。1977年获经济学博士学位。1974—1977年任总统经济顾问委员会主席。1987年，里根总统任命他为联邦储备委员会主席，直到2006年退休。他的著作《动荡的世界》曾荣登《纽约时报》畅销书榜首。他被称为全球的“经济沙皇”“美元总统”，无论走到哪里，都会在红毯上受到国家元首般的接待。他的公文包里藏着美国乃至全球“经济引擎”的秘密，许多人将其与美国总统的核按钮相提并论。伊丽莎白女王授予他英国爵士称号，高傲的法国人也颁发给他法国荣誉勋章。人们称他为伟大的经济学大师、预言家、魔术师…… 阿德里安·伍尔德里奇（Adrian Wooldridge） 《经济学人》驻华盛顿记者，曾担任《经济学人》美国西海岸分社社长。作品有《企业巫医》《管理大师》等。他曾为《华尔街日报》《泰晤士报》等媒体撰...(展开全部)

This book seeks to elucidate its subject - the governing of democratic state - by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics. His explanations are systematically related to, and deductible from, precisely stated assumptions about the motivations that attend the decisions of voters and parties and the e...(展开全部)