Scanlon offers a sharp challenge to much contemporary moral philosophy. Most philosophers think that agreements between people play only a subsidiary role in moral theory. What is right or wrong is independent of what people accept. Agreements rest on morality; they do not underlie it. Scanlon dissents. In his conception, morality depends on principles it would not be reasonabl...(展开全部)

How do we judge whether an action is morally right or wrong? If an action is wrong, what reason does that give us not to do it? Why should we give such reasons priority over our other concerns and values? In this book, T.M. Scanlon offers new answers to these questions, as they apply to the central part of morality that concerns what we owe to each other. According to his contr...(展开全部)

The title of this 1883 classic of laissez-faire economics and sociology is ironic: the social classes do not, the author concludes, owe each other anything. Demolishing the theory of group obligation and fully embracing the concepts of dog-eat-dog social Darwinism, Sumner rages against the notion that the educated and wealthy have any obligation to the poor and uneducated, decl...(展开全部)

This is a classic treatise on the importance of maintaining the rights of the individual in the face of expanding state control manipulated by organized pressure groups.

米努什·沙菲克（Minouche Shafik） 伦敦政治经济学院校长，横跨学界和公共政策领域的知名经济学家。曾任职于世界银行长达15年，是世界银行有史以来最年轻的副行长。2008—2011年担任英国国际发展部常务秘书，2011—2014年担任国际货币基金组织副总裁，2014—2017年担任英国央行副行长，于2017年开始担任伦敦政治经济学院的校长。此外，她还曾任教于乔治敦大学和宾夕法尼亚大学沃顿商学院。她于2015年获得了大英帝国司令勋章。

Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by ch...(展开全部)

EVOLUTION IS OFTEN PRESENTED AS A STRICTLY COMPETITIVE ENDEAVOR. This point of view has had serious implications for the way we see the mechanics of both science and culture. But scientists have long wondered how societies could have evolved without some measure of cooperation. And if there was cooperation involved, how could it have arisen from nature "red in tooth and claw"? ...(展开全部)