鲍温图拉·德·苏撒·桑托斯（Boaventura de Sousa Santos），葡萄牙科英布拉大学社会学系教授，美国威斯康星—麦迪逊大学法学研究所杰出学者。

鲍温图拉·德·苏撒·桑托斯（Boaventura de Sousa Santos），葡萄牙科英布拉大学社会学系教授，美国威斯康星—麦迪逊大学法学研究所杰出学者。

Economic cycles are driven by financial flows, namely quantities of savings and credits, and not by high street inflation or interest rates. Their sweeping destructive powers are expressed through Global Liquidity, a $130 trillion pool of footloose cash. Global Liquidity describes the gross flows of credit and international capital feeding through the world’s banking systems an...(展开全部)

While the nineteenth century has been described as the golden age of the European bourgeoisie, the emergence of the middle class and bourgeois culture was by no means exclusive to Europe. The Global Bourgeoisie explores the rise of the middle classes around the world during the age of empire. Bringing together eminent scholars, this landmark essay collection compares middle-cla...(展开全部)

The geography of the visual arts changed with the end of the Cold War. Contemporary art was no longer defined, exhibited, interpreted, and acquired according to a blueprint drawn up in New York, London, Paris, or Berlin. The art world distributed itself into art worlds. With the emergence of new art scenes in Asia and the Middle East and the explosion of biennials, the visual a...(展开全部)

As Chrystia Freeland's new book Plutocrats shows, the rich really are different ... There has always been some gap between rich and poor, but it has never been wider - and now the rich are getting wealthier at such breakneck speed that the middle classes are being squeezed out. While the wealthiest 10% of Americans, for example, receive half the nation's income, the real money ...(展开全部)

Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future “Meritocracy.” Indeed, the word is now part of the English language. It would appear that the formula: IQ+Effort=Merit may well constitute the basic belief of the ruling class in the twenty-first century. Projecting himself into the year 2034, the author of this sociological satire shows how present decisions and practice...(展开全部)

迈克尔·格兰特（Michael Grant，1914—2004），英国著名的古典学家，历史畅销书作者，曾任爱丁堡大学拉丁文学教授，喀土穆大学与女王大学校长。他翻译的塔西佗《编年史》至今仍然是常用译本，他还翻译了诸多其他古典作家的作品，并著有《希腊人的崛起》《罗马之巅》《维苏威的城市》等多达七十部关于希腊、罗马、中世纪历史的著作，其《古典时期的希腊》一书更是被译为德语等多种版本。格兰特教授退休后潜心写作，是古代史领域少见的自由作家，《泰晤士报》将其评为少有的“同时赢得学术界与普通读者尊重的经典史学家”。 译者刘峰，海德堡大学古代史与碑铭系博士生。

Current accounts of China’s global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely neglecting the cultivation of China’s people. Susan Greenhalgh, one of the foremost authorities on China’s one-child policy, places the governance of population squarely at the heart of China’s ascent. Focusing on the decade since 2000, and especially 2004–09, she argues that the vital politics of...(展开全部)

Current accounts of China’s global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely neglecting the cultivation of China’s people. Susan Greenhalgh, one of the foremost authorities on China’s one-child policy, places the governance of population squarely at the heart of China’s ascent. Focusing on the decade since 2000, and especially 2004–09, she argues that the vital politics of...(展开全部)