In Riches and Poverty, Donald Winch explores the implications of a fundamental and influential idea in political economy. Adam Smith's science of the legislator provided a key to studying the rich and poor in commercial societies, transformed an ancient debate on luxury and inequality, and furnished a basis for assessing the American and French revolutions. Against this backgro...(展开全部)

In Riches and Poverty, Donald Winch explores the implications of a fundamental and influential idea in political economy. Adam Smith's science of the legislator provided a key to studying the rich and poor in commercial societies, transformed an ancient debate on luxury and inequality, and furnished a basis for assessing the American and French revolutions. Against this backgro...(展开全部)

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of this important field's developm...(展开全部)

The field of international political economy gained prominence in the early 1970s--when the Arab oil embargo and other crises ended the postwar era of virtually unhindered economic growth in the United States and Europe--and today is an essential part of both political science and economics. This book offers the first comprehensive examination of this important field's developm...(展开全部)

Original French title: Histoire intellectuelle du libéralisme: dix leçons. Manent has written a concise and graceful essay on the history of liberal thought._ [This] book makes clear that even the most emphatically political liberalisms always involve more than opinions about forms of government. Liberalism, as he reconstructs it, is an elaborate edifice of beliefs, practices a...(展开全部)

The present and future state of the environment give rise to ever increasing concern, and to an ever increasing body of scholarship, but much less is known as yet about the past the damage done to the environment in the past couple of centuries, how far our predecessors were aware of it, and the steps they took to help. This book makes a substantial contribution to our understa...(展开全部)

This sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Richard Lehan gathers a rich entourage that includes Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Bram Stoker, Rider Haggard, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Raymond Chandler...(展开全部)

理查德·利罕（Richard Lehan），美国加州大学洛杉矶分校英文系教授，长期从事英美文学研究，著有《了不起的盖茨比：奇才的局限》、《德莱塞：其人及其作》、《现实主义和自然主义：转折时代的小说》等。利罕同时还是一位历史学家，对“新历史主义“的“理论局限“发表过自己的独特看法，并引起学界关注。

This sweeping literary encounter with the Western idea of the city moves from the early novel in England to the apocalyptic cityscapes of Thomas Pynchon. Along the way, Richard Lehan gathers a rich entourage that includes Daniel Defoe, Charles Dickens, Emile Zola, Bram Stoker, Rider Haggard, Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Raymond Chandler...(展开全部)

理查德·利罕（Richard Lehan），美国加州大学洛杉矶分校英文系教授，长期从事英美文学研究，著有《了不起的盖茨比：奇才的局限》、《德莱塞：其人及其作》、《现实主义和自然主义：转折时代的小说》等。利罕同时还是一位历史学家，对“新历史主义“的“理论局限“发表过自己的独特看法，并引起学界关注。