"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time," declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property market, never fought a commercially inspired war, witnessed no drive to capital formation, and assigned the management of many ...(展开全部)

"Technical progress, economic growth, productivity, even efficiency have not been significant goals since the beginning of time," declares M. I. Finley in his classic work. The states of the ancient Mediterranean world had no recognizable real-property market, never fought a commercially inspired war, witnessed no drive to capital formation, and assigned the management of many ...(展开全部)

With this classic book, Sir Ronald Syme became the first historian of the twentieth century to place Sallust - whom Tacitus called the most brilliant Roman historian - in his social, political, and literary context. Scholars had considered Sallust to be a mere political hack or pamphleteer, but Syme's text makes important connections between the politics of the Republic and the...(展开全部)

意大利知名史学家，被誉为“古典世界历史文献的首席学者”，1936年成为Turin大学的罗马史教授，但是作为一个犹太人，不久就失去了教席并移居英国（1938年），继续任教于牛津大学、伦敦大学学院（1951-1975），也经常访问芝加哥大学等。除了研究古代希腊历史和它的方法论，莫米利亚诺对现代史学也颇感兴趣（比如吉本），撰写了大量相关的研究。

In this philosophy classic, which was first published in 1951, E.R. Dodds takes on the traditional view of Greek culture as a triumph of rationalism. Using the analytical tools of modern anthropology and psychology, Dodds asks, 'Why should we attribute to the ancient Greeks an immunity from 'primitive' modes of thought which we do not find in any society open to our direct obse...(展开全部)

This book is about ancient Greek ethical ideas, primarily of Homer and the tragedians. Denying that modern ethical understanding is merely a progressive version of Greek thought, Williams contends that the ancients' ideas can illuminate our own. His question is how to respond to a view grounded in supernatural conceptions we have long since discarded. He examines Greek ideas of...(展开全部)

Burkert's work is of such magnitude and depth that it may even contribute to that most difficult of tasks, defining myth, ritual, and religion. . [He] locates his work in the context of culture and the historv of ideas, and he is not hesitant to draw on sociology and biology. Consequently his work is of significance for philosophers, historians, and even theologians, as well as...(展开全部)

Known as the "economist's economist" for his work on creating a synthetic economic theory, Swedish economist Knut Wicksell was a controversial, but highly influential figure in modern economic thought. His contributions to marginal productivity theory, income distribution and, most notably, his theory of interest would come to have a profound impact upon twentieth century econo...(展开全部)

克努特·维克塞尔（Knut Wicksell，1851－1926）是瑞典学派的创始人，并且对奥地利学派、剑桥学派有着深刻的影响。他在20世纪初期提出的货币经济理论，也即累积过程理论(cumulative process)，首先突破了此前经济学家普遍持有的“货币面纱”论，试图将货币与实际经济结合起来，并且对包括凯恩斯在内的经济学理论发展产生了巨大的影响。他的主要学术思想出现在1898年的《利息与价格》(Interest and Prices)一书中。

How do we get from the polis to the police? Or from Odysseus’ sirens to an ambulance’s? The legacy of ancient Greece and Rome has been imitated, resisted, misunderstood, and reworked by every culture that followed. In this volume, some five hundred articles by a wide range of scholars investigate the afterlife of this rich heritage in the fields of literature, philosophy, art, ...(展开全部)