"Scale and Scope" is Alfred Chandler's first major work since his Pulitzer prize-winning "The Visible Hand". Representing ten years of research into the history of the managerial business system, this book concentrates on patterns of growth and competitiveness in the US, Germany, and Great Britain, tracing the evolution of large firms into multinational giants and orienting the...(展开全部)

The scope of someone's consent is the range of actions that they permit by giving consent. The Scope of Consent investigates the under-explored question of which normative principle governs the scope of consent. To answer this question, the book's investigation involves taking a stance on what constitutes consent. By appealing to the idea that someone can justify their behaviou...(展开全部)

From the Internet to networks of friendship, disease transmission, and even terrorism, the concept - and the reality - of networks has come to pervade modern society. But what exactly is a network? What different types of networks are there? Why are they interesting, and what can they tell us? In recent years, scientists from a range of fields - including mathematics, physics, ...(展开全部)

Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrating and scholarly studies of Buddhism. In this accessible and illuminating book he deals with the classical opposition between magic, science and religion. He reviews the great debates in classical Judaism, early Greek science, Renaissance philosophy, the Protestant Reformation, and...(展开全部)

This book gives information on studies based on sociology and capitalism.

在线阅读本书 In an inquiry that encompasses a probe of the human psyche, an analysis of the organization of primitive society, and an examination of the sources of profit and the accumulation of wealth, the noted economist explores the nature and dynamics of capitalism.

From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Life expectancy in the United States has recently fallen for three years in a row―a reversal not seen since 1918 or in any other wealthy nation in modern times. In the past two decades, deaths of despair from suicide, drug o...(展开全部)

安妮·凯斯（Anne Case） 普林斯顿大学1886年亚历山大·斯图尔特经济学和公共事务教授、伍德罗·威尔逊公共和国际事务学院荣誉教授，2020年当选美国国家科学院院士。她也是美国国家经济研究局研究员、计量经济学会会员，美国国家医学学会、美国艺术与科学学会和美国哲学学会成员，曾获得国际卫生经济学协会的肯尼斯·阿罗健康经济学奖、美国国家科学院院刊科扎雷利奖。 安格斯·迪顿（Angus Deaton） 2015年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，普林斯顿大学德怀特·艾森豪威尔经济学和国际事务名誉教授。此前曾任美国经济学会主席、世界银行研究审核委员会主席等。他的主要研究领域为贫困、不平等、健康、福祉和经济发展等，著有《逃离不平等》。 2019年，《展望》杂志将安格斯·迪顿和安妮·凯斯评为年度“世界50大思想家”。

"What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what." --from the Introduction To moder...(展开全部)