From Publishers Weekly The much-honored late historian Hofstadter inaugurated the study of social Darwinism in his 1944 Ph.D. thesis, reprinted here with an introduction by noted contemporary historian Foner.

理查德·霍夫施塔特，美国历史学家，哥伦比亚大学教授。他出版了一系列关于美国政治、社会、思想潮流的历史读物，如《美国政治传统》（The American Political Tradition）、《美国政治中的偏执风格》（The Paranoid Style in American Politics）、《美国的暴力》（American Violence）等。凭借《改革年代》（The Age of Reform）、《美国生活中的反智主义》（Anti-Intellectualism in American Life）两获普利策奖。 译者简介 汪堂峰博士，上海财经大学教师，美国怀俄明大学访问学者。学术志趣为思想文化史、中外现代化进程比较，出版译著有《马克思主义体系》、《欧洲近代早期的大众文化》（合译）等。

理查德·霍夫施塔特，美国历史学家，哥伦比亚大学教授。他出版了一系列关于美国政治、社会、思想潮流的历史读物，如《美国政治传统》（The American Political Tradition）、《美国政治中的偏执风格》（The Paranoid Style in American Politics）、《美国的暴力》（American Violence）等。凭借《改革年代》（The Age of Reform）、《美国生活中的反智主义》（Anti-Intellectualism in American Life）两获普利策奖。 译者简介 汪堂峰博士，上海财经大学教师，美国怀俄明大学访问学者。学术志趣为思想文化史、中外现代化进程比较，出版译著有《马克思主义体系》、《欧洲近代早期的大众文化》（合译）等。

From Publishers Weekly The much-honored late historian Hofstadter inaugurated the study of social Darwinism in his 1944 Ph.D. thesis, reprinted here with an introduction by noted contemporary historian Foner.

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional economics in the critical, analytical and readable style that Hodgson's fans have come to know and love, and that a new generation of readers will surely come to appreciate.

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional economics in the critical, analytical and readable style that Hodgson's fans have come to know and love, and that a new generation of readers will surely come to appreciate.

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional economics in the critical, analytical and readable style that Hodgson's fans have come to know and love, and that a new generation of readers will surely come to appreciate.

This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal of institutional economics in the critical, analytical and readable style that Hodgson's fans have come to know and love, and that a new generation of readers will surely come to appreciate.

施米特1888年出生在德国西部的一个小镇，天主教徒，从小喜好文学、艺术、音乐、哲学、神学。在大学获得法学博士学位后，一边研究新康德主义法理学，一边写论瓦格纳的华彩文章。1916年，施米特发表了一部从政治哲学角度论诗人多伯勒的长诗《北极光》的专著，从此开始了其长达半个世纪的政治思想生涯。