Neoclassical economics as-sumes that people are highly rational and can reason their way through even the most complex economic problems. In Individual Strategy and Social Structure, Peyton Young argues for a more realistic view in which people have a limited understanding of their environment, are sometimes short-sighted, and occasionally act in perverse ways. He shows how the...(展开全部)

罗伯特•K.默顿（1910—2003）美国著名社会学家、科学社会学奠基人、结构功能主义流派代表人物之一，出生于费城，1931年获坦普尔大学学士学位，随后进入哈佛大学，师从社会学名家索罗金、帕森斯及科学史家萨顿，1936年获得社会学博士学位，先后在哈佛大学、图兰大学和哥伦比亚大学任教，曾任美国社会学学会主席（1956—1957），并当选美国科学院院士，代表著作有《十七世纪英国的科学、技术与社会》（1938/1970）、《大众信念》（1946）、《社会理论和社会结构》（1949/1968）、《在巨人的肩膀上》（1965）、《论理论社会学》（1967）、《科学社会学》（1973）、《社会学的矛盾选择及其他文集》（1976）、《科学社会学散忆》（1979）、《社会研究与从事专门职业》（1982）等。

查尔斯·贝兹（Charles Beitz），美国艺术与科学院院士，美国普林斯顿大学政治学教授，普林斯顿人类价值研究中心主任；《哲学与公共事务》杂志、《国际伦理学》杂志和《法律、经济学与哲学》杂志编委。其主要研究领域为国际政治理论、民主理论、人权理论和法律理论；主要著作有：《政治理论与国际关系》、《政治平等》、《人权的理念》等。贝兹教授曾荣获古根海姆、洛克菲勒和麦克阿瑟基金以及美国学术团体协会和美国教育委员会研究基金。

In this revised edition of his 1979 classic "Political Theory and International Relations", Charles Beitz rejects two highly influential conceptions of international theory as empirically inaccurate and theoretically misleading. In one, international relations is a Hobbesian state of nature in which moral judgments are entirely inappropriate, and in the other, states are analog...(展开全部)

Electronic inspection copies are available for instructors Political Marketing: Theories and Concepts provides students with a valuable and critical understanding of how political parties use marketing to attain their aims. Unlike other textbooks, this text explicitly focuses on the theoretical underpinnings and cutting edge concepts used by political parties, allowing students...(展开全部)

This classic work in the philosophy of physical science is an incisive and readable account of the scientific method. Pierre Duhem was one of the great figures in French science, a devoted teacher, and a distinguished scholar of the history and philosophy of science. This book represents his most mature thought on a wide range of topics.