Red Tape presents a major new theory of the state developed by the renowned anthropologist Akhil Gupta. Seeking to understand the chronic and widespread poverty in India, the world's fourth largest economy, Gupta conceives of the relation between the state in India and the poor as one of structural violence. Every year this violence kills between two and three million people, e...(展开全部)

Why do ethnic riots break out when and where they do? Why do some governments try to prevent ethnic riots while others do nothing or even participate in the violence? In this book, Steven I. Wilkinson uses collected data on Hindu-Muslim riots, socio-economic factors and competitive politics in India to test his theory that riots are fomented in order to win elections and that g...(展开全部)

A big cat overthrows the Indian state and establishes a reign of terror over the residents of a Himalayan town. A welfare legislation aimed at providing employment and commanding a huge budget becomes 'unimplementable' in a region bedeviled by high levels of poverty and unemployment. Paper Tiger provides a lively ethnographic account of how such seemingly bizarre scenarios come...(展开全部)

Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing w...(展开全部)

Meet the economic gangster. He's the United Nations diplomat who double-parks his Mercedes on New York City streets at rush hour because the cops can't touch him--he has diplomatic immunity. He's the Chinese smuggler who dodges tariffs by magically transforming frozen chickens into frozen turkeys. The dictator, the warlord, the unscrupulous bureaucrat who bilks the developing w...(展开全部)

The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided into strictly urban or rural classifications. Creating Wealth and Poverty in Post...(展开全部)

The Chinese economy's return to commodification and privatization has greatly diversified China's institutional landscape. With the migration of more than 140 million villagers to cities and rapid urbanization of rural settlements, it is no longer possible to presume that the nation can be divided into strictly urban or rural classifications. "Creating Wealth and Poverty in Pos...(展开全部)

In this acclaimed work, Gilder offers an illuminating discussion of how to increase wealth and curtail poverty, arguing that most welfare programs only serve to keep the poor in poverty as victims of welfare dependency.

乔治·吉尔德（George Gilder），当今美国知名未来学家、经济学家，和尼古拉斯·尼葛洛庞帝和马歇尔·麦克卢汉一起，被誉为“数字时代的三大思想家”。毕业于哈佛大学，并曾服务于美国海军陆战队。 20世纪80年代，他成为供应学派经济学的代表人物，其作品《财富与贫困》被誉为里根革命的改革指南，在美国销售超过100万册；90年代，成为新经济的倡导者，曾被白宫授予“企业杰出奖”。在90年代中期的美国高科技领域，乔治?吉尔德就已经声名远播，经常与安迪?格罗夫、彼得·德鲁克等同场演讲。他还是《福布斯》《哈佛商业评论》等著名杂志的撰稿人，《企业之魂》《知识与权力》《通信革命》《货币之惑》等著作影响极大。

魏丕信（Pierre-Etienne Will），生于1944年，法国著名汉学家。早年攻读欧洲古典文学（拉丁、希腊、法国）和中文，1975年获巴黎大学博士学位，1969年入法国国家高等社会科学研究院任教至今，1991年当选法兰西学院院士。研究范围遍及人口史、灾害史、水利史、荒政史、明清国家与经济的关系、明清官僚制度等，有专著2部及论文50余篇，成就卓著，在国际学界享有盛誉。