A powerful case that the economic shocks of the 1970s hastened both the end of the Cold War and the rise of neoliberalism by forcing governments to impose austerity on their own people. Why did the Cold War come to a peaceful end? And why did neoliberal economics sweep across the world in the late twentieth century? In this pathbreaking study, Fritz Bartel argues that the answe...(展开全部)

Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations tha...(展开全部)

Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. Slobodian begins in Austr...(展开全部)

Chosen by Pankaj Mishra as one of the Best Books of the Summer Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations tha...(展开全部)

Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. Slobodian begins in Austr...(展开全部)

罗伯特•瑟维斯（Robert Service）是英国历史学家、学者和作家，对苏联历史，尤其是从十月革命到斯大林逝世时期，著述颇丰。瑟维斯著有十二部专著，包括《间谍与人民委员》(Spies and Commissars)；享有盛誉的《列宁传》(Lenin: A Biography)《斯大林传》(Stalin: A Biography)和《同志：世界共产主义史》(Comrades: A History of World Communism)。他目前是英国牛津大学俄国史教授、牛津大学圣安东尼学院研究员、斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员。

罗伯特•瑟维斯（Robert Service）是英国历史学家、学者和作家，对苏联历史，尤其是从十月革命到斯大林逝世时期，著述颇丰。瑟维斯著有十二部专著，包括《间谍与人民委员》(Spies and Commissars)；享有盛誉的《列宁传》(Lenin: A Biography)《斯大林传》(Stalin: A Biography)和《同志：世界共产主义史》(Comrades: A History of World Communism)。他目前是英国牛津大学俄国史教授、牛津大学圣安东尼学院研究员、斯坦福大学胡佛研究所高级研究员。

乔纳森·弗兰岑（Jonathan Franzen） 美国小说家、随笔作家。 1959年生于伊利诺伊州。1996年在《哈泼氏》杂志发表长篇随笔《偶尔做梦》，从此受到广泛关注。迄今为止，出版有小说《纠正》《自由》《纯洁》，回忆录《不舒适地带：个人史》，以及随笔集《如何独处》《地球尽头的尽头》等。凭借《纠正》获得普利策奖提名和美国国家图书奖。

In The End of the End of the Earth, which gathers essays and speeches written mostly in the past five years, Jonathan Franzen returns with renewed vigor to the themes―both human and literary―that have long preoccupied him. Whether exploring his complex relationship with his uncle, recounting his young adulthood in New York, or offering an illuminating look at the global seabird...(展开全部)

作者牛军，北京大学国际关系学院教授，长期研究新中国外交，是在国内外颇具影响的学者。有多部中、英、日文著作出版 。