2nd Edition

Political economy is the study of decentralized and centralized mechanisms for allocating resources and distributing incomes: markets and states. Both markets and states can be organized and combined in a variety of ways and they jointly determine what the economy produces as well as who gets what. The purpose of this book is to introduce the reader to the concepts and tools fo...(展开全部)

Conventional wisdom argues that welfare state builders in the US and Sweden in the 1930s took their cues from labor and labor movements. "Capitalists Against Markets" makes the startling argument that pragmatic social reformers looked for support not only from below but also from above, taking into account capitalist interests and preferences. Juxtaposing two widely recognized ...(展开全部)

The purpose of this text is to introduce concepts for studying relationships between states and markets. The economy and the state are thus analyzed as networks of relationships between principals and agents, each occupying a particular position in the institutional structure. The book then analyzes systematically the effect of the organization of the state on the functioning o...(展开全部)

States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions on Earth, exercising vast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens. This concise and engaging book explains how power became centralized in states at the expense of the myriad of other polities that had battled one another over previous millennia. R...(展开全部)

States over the past 500 years have become the dominant institutions throughout the world, exercising cast and varied authority over the economic well-being, health, welfare, and very lives of their citizens. This concise and engaging book explains how power became centralized in states at the expense of myriad of other polities that had battled one another over the previous mi...(展开全部)

维维安娜·泽利泽（Viviana A. Zelizer），美国当代杰出经济社会学家，普林斯顿大学社会学教授，曾任美国经济社会学学会主席。主要研究领域为经济社会学，关注经济的文化与道德维度。著有《道德与市场》《给无价的孩子定价》、《金钱的社会意义》、《亲密关系的购买》、《经济生活：文化如何塑造经济》。

维维安娜·泽利泽（Viviana A. Zelizer），美国当代杰出经济社会学家，普林斯顿大学社会学教授，曾任美国经济社会学学会主席。主要研究领域为经济社会学，关注经济的文化与道德维度。著有《道德与市场》《给无价的孩子定价》、《金钱的社会意义》、《亲密关系的购买》、《经济生活：文化如何塑造经济》。

The emergence of platforms is a novel phenomenon impacting most industries, from products to services. Industry platforms such as Microsoft Windows or Google, embedded within industrial ecosystems, have redesigned our industrial landscapes, upset the balance of power between firms, fostered innovation and raised new questions on competition and innovation. Annabelle Gawer prese...(展开全部)