This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both an engaging, broadly focused introduction to China's economy since 1949 and original insights based on his own extensive research. T...(展开全部)

The new edition of a comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy, revised to reflect the end of the “miracle growth” period.This comprehensive overview of the modern Chinese economy by a noted expert on China's economic development offers a quality and breadth of coverage not found in any other English-language text. In The Chinese Economy, Barry Naughton provides both...(展开全部)

In the last two decades, there has been a widespread movement from authoritarian to democratic rule among developing countries, often occurring against a backdrop of severe economic crises and the adoption of market-oriented reforms. The coincidence of these events raises long-standing questions about the relationship between economic and political change. In this book, Stephan...(展开全部)

China was the largest and one of the most advanced economies in the world before the eighteenth century, yet declined precipitately thereafter and degenerated into one of the world's poorest economies by the late nineteenth century. Despite generations' efforts for national rejuvenation, China did not reverse its fate until it introduced market-oriented reforms in 1979. Since t...(展开全部)

This book is a comprehensive analysis of China's economic history. It provides an essential background to the study of China's struggle for growth and development, with insights into the concept of underdevelopment and theories of transitional economics.

In February 1967, at the height of the Cultural Revolution, the American Society of International Law organized a study panel of legal scholars, social scientists, lawyers, and government officials to consider problems relating to "China and International Order." The ten essays in this volume-written by twelve scholars including Mr. Cohen, who has also written a substantial int...(展开全部)

During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that spread across the globe. While much has been made of the details of the Industrial Revolution, what remains a mystery is why it took place at all. Why did this revolution begin in the West and not elsewhere, and why did it continue, leading to t...(展开全部)

乔尔‧莫基尔（Joel Mokyr），西北大学罗伯特?H.斯托茨人文科学教授和经济学与历史学教授，特拉维夫大学埃坦?柏格拉斯经济学院教授，曾任美国经济史协会会长。他的研究获得诸多奖项，是美国经济学联合会杰出会士奖、荷兰皇家科学院的海尼根历史学奖和国际巴尔扎恩经济史奖得主。 他已出版了《开明经济》（The Enlightened Economy）和《雅典娜的礼物》（The Gifts of Athena）等多本著作。

Why do living things and physical phenomena take the form they do? D'Arcy Thompson's classic On Growth and Form looks at the way things grow and the shapes they take. Analysing biological processes in their mathematical and physical aspects, this historic work, first published in 1917, has also become renowned for the sheer poetry of its descriptions. A great scientist sensitiv...(展开全部)

Given the increased openness of countries to international trade and financial flows, the general public and the scholarly literature have grown skeptical about the capacity of policy-makers to affect economic performance. Challenging this view, Political Parties, Growth, and Equality shows that the increasingly interdependent world economy and recent technological shocks have ...(展开全部)