Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for all countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition and a health economist take on this challenge. This 2001 book offers health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europ...(展开全部)

Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for all countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition and a health economist take on this challenge. This 2001 book offers health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europ...(展开全部)

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think about our right to happiness or too weak to pursue it. So, if a government is mak...(展开全部)

A virus is not human, but the reaction to it is a measure of humanity. America has not measured up well. Tens of thousands are dead for no reason. America is supposed to be about freedom, yet illness and fear make its citizens less free. After all, freedom is meaningless if we are too ill to think about our right to happiness or too weak to pursue it. So, if a government is mak...(展开全部)

罗伯特·林德 (Robert Lynd，1892-1970) 和海伦·林德 (Helen Lynd，1894-1982)，夫妇二人均是美国社会学家，罗伯特·林德曾担任美国社会科学研究委员会委员，并在哥伦比亚大学教授社会学；海伦·林德曾在纽约莎拉劳伦斯学院任教。夫妇二人闻名于他们20世纪二三十年代对美国东北部一个小城镇“中镇”持续的社会研究，其成果凝结为《中镇》（1929）和《转变中的中镇》（1937）两部著作，他们的研究也使得“中镇”成为美国文化研究的重要标本。 梁文静，北京大学人类学博士，现任教于重庆大学中国语言文学系。 王晓燕，北京大学社会学硕士。 高卉，北京大学人类学博士，石河子大学法学院院长、教授。

Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to answer this question, explaining why economic players know what they know--and how the information they have affects collective outcomes. Instead of assuming what people d...(展开全部)

Most theories in economics and finance predict what people will do, given what they know about the world around them. But what do people know about their environments? The study of information choice seeks to answer this question, explaining why economic players know what they know--and how the information they have affects collective outcomes. Instead of assuming what people d...(展开全部)

In this book Rorty argues that thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Wittgenstein have enabled societies to see themselves as historical contingencies, rather than as expressions of underlying, ahistorical human nature or as realizations of suprahistorical goals. This ironic perspective on the human condition is valuable on a private level, although it cannot advance the socia...(展开全部)