James M. Buchanan himself speaks of “my little book, Cost and Choice.” Cost and Choice is indeed small in size, but, systematically, it holds quite a central place in Buchanan’s work. For the fundamental economic notion of “cost,” or “opportunity cost,” is intimately related to the Buchanan enterprise. As a subjectivist, Buchanan insists that opportunity cost exist only in the ...(展开全部)

詹姆斯·布坎南（James McGill Buchanan，1919— ），公共选择理论创始人之一，1986年诺贝尔经济学奖得主，著有《同意的计算》（与戈登·塔洛克合著，1958）、《民主财政论》（1967）、《成本与选择》（1969）、《自由的限度》（与罗伯特·托利森合著，1975）、《赤字中的民主》（与理查德·瓦格纳合著，1971）、《自由、市场与国家》（1985）、《宪政经济学》（与杰佛瑞·布伦南合著，1985）、《财产与自由》（1993）等。

In the new edition of this student text, the author has made substantial revisions and additions to enhance the book's usefulness without destroying its character as a lucid and readable text. Most economics courses separate the teaching of the mathematics of constrained maximization from its economic applications. The aim of this book is to provide an integrated treatment of o...(展开全部)

This book seeks to elucidate its subject - the governing of democratic state - by making intelligible the party politics of democracies. Downs treats this differently than do other students of politics. His explanations are systematically related to, and deductible from, precisely stated assumptions about the motivations that attend the decisions of voters and parties and the e...(展开全部)

约翰·杜威（John Dewey，1859—1952），美国著名哲学家、教育家，实用主义哲学的创始人之一，美国进步主义教育运动的代表，早期传播思想家。

本书是实用主义哲学家约翰*杜威对公众研究的重要著作。在本书中，杜威展现了自己对公众智慧的强烈信念，他认为，公众有能力通过公共智慧解决公共问题，从而达成有效的公民自治。杜威在本书中定义并阐释了“公众”、“政府”、“国家”、“民主政治”的概念。作为一位积极推动社会改革，倡言 民主政治理想的所谓自由主义派人士，杜威在本书中体现出的对当时美国社会和公众的认识，了解当时美国的社会对于审视今日中国之问题，包含深意的关照。 In The Public and Its Problems, a classic of social and political philosophy, John Dewey exhibits his strong faith in the potential of human intelligence to solve the public...(展开全部)

The fullest general statement of Max Weber's sociological theory to appear in any of his writings, The Theory of Social and Economic Organization is an introduction to Weber's ambitious comparitive study of the sociological and institutional foundations of the modern economic and social order. In this work originally published in German in 1920, Weber discusses the analytical m...(展开全部)

Written by four recognized experts with senior experience in research and government, this text is the first comprehensive survival kit for students and practitioners of economic policy. It is set to become an indispensable resource for everyone involved or interested in modern economic policy. Academic scholars willing to engage in policy discussions and students at graduate o...(展开全部)

Over the past two decades, academic economics has undergone a mild revolution in methodology. The language, concepts and techniques of noncooperative game theory have become central to the discipline. This book provides the reader with some basic concepts from noncooperative theory, and then goes on to explore the strengths, weaknesses, and future of the theory as a tool of eco...(展开全部)