The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the “history of capitalism,” as well as from renewed attention to political economy by historians of science and technology, this Osiris volume revisits ...(展开全部)

作者简介 埃里克·威廉斯是特立尼达和多巴哥独立后的首任总理，也是著名的加勒比海历史学家。在进入政界之前，他是霍华德大学社会政治学教授，专门研究奴隶制。 译者简介 陆志宝，中共党员，教授。1960—1965年在外交学院国际关系专业学习，毕业后到北京第二外国语学院英语系任教，曾任英语系副主任。编写出版了《英语导游》和教材《社会与文化概论》，译有《生而无权：资本主义与奴隶制度》《普利策传》。 彭坤元，中国社会科学院世界历史研究所研究员，著有《非洲通史》（现代卷，合著）、《大英帝国从殖民地撤退前后》（合编），发表非洲史研究论文多篇，参与联合国教科文组织牵头编撰的《非洲通史》第六卷译、校、审定工作。 张晓华，中国社会科学院世界历史研究所编审。著有《瑞典首相帕尔梅》（合著），发表瑞典、非洲历史等相关论文多篇，参与翻译《资本的年代：1848—1875》等著作。

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumulated vast fortunes that established banks and heavy industry in Europe and expanded the reach of capitalism worldwide. Eric Williams advanced these powerful ideas in Capitalism and Slavery, published in 1944. Years ahead of its time, ...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1986, Bowles and Gintis present a critique of contemporary Marxian and liberal political theory. They show that 'capitalism' and 'democracy' - although widely held jointly to characterize Western society - are sharply contrasting systems regulating both the process of human development and the historical evolution of whole societies. They examine in deta...(展开全部)

Recent high-profile corporate scandals - such as those involving Enron in the United States, Yukos in Russia, and Liverdoor in Japan - demonstrate challenges to the legal regulation of business practices in capitalist economies. Setting forth a new analytic framework for understanding these problems, "Law and Capitalism" examines contemporary corporate governance crises in six ...(展开全部)

Originally published in 1986, Bowles and Gintis present a critique of contemporary Marxian and liberal political theory. They show that 'capitalism' and 'democracy' - although widely held jointly to characterize Western society - are sharply contrasting systems regulating both the process of human development and the historical evolution of whole societies. They examine in deta...(展开全部)

By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore folklore as a category in cultural communication and as a subject of scholarly research. Ben-Amos's work is well-known for sp...(展开全部)

This book considers three questions about understanding the past. How can we rethink human histories by including animals and plants? How can we overcome nationally territorialised narratives? And how can we balance academic history-writing and indigenous understandings of history? This is a tentative foray into the connections between these questions. Entangled Lives explore t...(展开全部)

亚当•普热沃尔斯基，国际知名政治学家，分析马克思主义学派领军人物之一，比较政治学研究领域泰斗级学者。1966年在美国西北大学获政治学博士学位，先后任教于华盛顿大学、芝加哥大学与纽约大学，到瑞士、德国、法国、智利、印度、波兰等多个国家做过访问学者。其代表作有《国家与市场》、《民主与自治的限度》、《资本主义下的国家与经济》、《民主与市场：东欧与拉丁美洲的政治经济改革》等，许多著作一版再版，并被翻译成多种文字。本书是他的代表作之一。

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is the most famous book by Joseph Schumpeter in which he deals with capitalism, socialism and creative destruction. First published in 1942, it is largely unmathematical, compared with neoclassical works, focusing on the unexpected, rapid spurts of entrepreneur-driven growth instead of static models. The book is unusual insomuch as it was wri...(展开全部)