Lawrence Boland takes issue with both economic methodologists and practicing economists. He argues that there has been too much 'methodology for methodology's sake' and that mainstream economics might benefit by using methodology to take a critical look at economic theory.

本書特色 提升人際關係、創造好人緣的人際相處書籍 內容介紹會交際才能匯人氣！做好交際的關鍵是什麼?是拚酒拚命拚人氣?還是盡忠盡孝講義氣?其實交際很簡單，只要在與人互動上多留意，凡事給人留點情面，乍看是吃虧其實是默默在累積你的人脈資產，讓交際成為一種習慣，不紅也難！網路資訊發達、宅經濟的趁勢崛起，讓許多阿宅們只要動動滑鼠，網路就像神燈一樣要什麼有什麼，造成很多人漸漸失去交際的機會，最後變成只要一聽到「交際」兩個字，眉頭就打結，總認為這是一門很深奧的學問、一種超難理解的技巧，然而，交際真有這麼難嗎？其實與人交往只要少計較、多尊重，不要一出口就傷到別人的自尊心，人氣王自然非你莫屬，現在起就跟著本書的經驗法則去做，即可輕鬆的習慣交際，並讓交際融入你的生活，成為你致勝的習慣！

《论证是一门学问:如何让你的观点有说服力》不仅能使您在撰写文章和发表演讲时，清晰而有力地阐明自己的观点，还有助于您形成批判性的思维方式和怀疑精神。无论是进行调查研究、阅读论证类文章，还是赢得听众的信任，这本小册子都是您必不可少的有力帮手。简要论证有哪些基本规则？演绎论证有几种类型？因果论证的核心要义是什么？怎样进行概括与总结？如何正确地运用信息来源？口头论证需要更加注意什么？如何避免论证过程中容易出现的谬误？……
在这本简短精练的规则手册中，作者大量运用贴近生活的例证，归纳了45条进行论证时需要遵循的规则，以及在论证过程中常见的谬误和隐秘的陷阱，帮助您进行逻辑严谨的论证，得出有说服力的结论。
第一章至第六章讨论如何构建和评估简要论证。简要论证只是简单地提出理由和证据。通常只有几句话或一个段落。我们从简要论证开始是出于以下几个原因。首先。它们很常见：实际上它们极其常见，是人们日常对话的一部分。其次，较长的论证通常是对简要论证的详细说明，或者是将一系列简要论证连在一起。如果你首先学习书写和评估简要论证，那么你就能够把这项技能加以扩展，处理议论文或口头陈述中的详细论证。
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第七章带你从整体到局部地研究详细论证，同时你需要思考反对意见和其他可能性。第八章带你从上一步进入议论文写作。然后，第九章补充一些针对口头陈述的规则。同样。所有这些章节都以前六章为基础，因为像这样的详细论证本质上是对前六章讨论的简要论证进行组合和详细说明。……
《论证是一门学问:如何让你的观点有说服力》结尾有两个附录。附录一列举了各种谬误：这些使人产生误解的论证是如此地迷惑人、如此地常见，它们甚至有自己的名字。附录二提供了构建和评估定义的三个规则。在需要使用它们的时候就请使用吧！

This book, by a psychologist with two decades of investment in writers, depicts his programs for instilling patience, pacing, constancy, and resilience in writing. He shows how writers proceed to comfort and fluency by detailing strategies, rules, and turning points for a diversity of writers--professional, professorial, and otherwise. The result is a thorough-going discussion of what helps writers and a review of the broad literature that program participants found most helpful.

擁有20年教學經驗的英文教授教你讀懂文學作品。 內容生動活潑，援引各類文學作品，包括小說、短篇作品、電影、戲劇、詩歌、卡通、歌詞等等。 讀書會最佳參考書籍。 包羅萬象的建議延伸閱讀，豐富你的閱讀視野。 當小說主角啟程旅行代表什麼意思？和人共享一頓飯代表什麼意思？被突如其來的大雨淋成落湯雞又代表什麼意思？小說或是詩歌其中蘊含的意思，其實遠超過表象所看到的。文學作品中無所不在的象徵，你覺得代表什麼意思？發生在某個人物身上的意外轉折，作者這樣安排代表什麼意思？這些隱晦的不確切，讓文學作品看來撲朔迷離，讓你覺得頭大嗎？

《经济学方法论探究》是卡尔·门格尔讨论社会科学、尤其是经济学方法论的专著。他在这本书中阐述的个人主义方法论与韦伯异曲同工，成为经济学的基础性方法论原则；他阐述的自发秩序理论则被哈耶克发扬光大。
本书是门格尔一生的集大成之作，其重要性丝毫超越了被我国读者熟知的《国民经济学原理》。在经济学发展史上具有极其重要的地位，系首次译为中文。

《领袖之辨》作者不仅是政治学家，更精于社会心理学，从人性基本需求、领导者的多维度测试等多个面向，以实际故事印证、剖析令人盲从的症结，引导读者：如何分辨领导动机的善恶。如何透视你看不见的领导阴暗面。如何揭穿领导者的“好人”假象。如何预防美好愿景变质。如何审视被领导者美化的价值观。如何评估领导者误判现实的可能性。如何破解领导者没说出口的“事实”。如何认清“领导话术”背后的图谋。让我们告别狂热的盲从，保持谨慎的戒心，冷眼独行，造就最佳选民。

本书是研究、论证和文献综述写作的行动指南。即使对于资深的研究者来说，文献综述也很复杂。人们往往要通过反复实验、不断探索来学习撰写文献综述。要顺利完成一项文献综述，要求研究者具备很多技能，如缩小研究课题，聚焦搜索文献。此外，研究者还要使用必要的工具，去查阅与研究课题相关的大量书籍、期刊和报告。因此，本书的目的就是综合介绍经验丰富的研究者所采用的策略、工具和技巧，以资借鉴。

本书收入了华人哈耶克学会第四届年会的部分论文，其主题集中于探究奥地利学派的方法论，另有一些论文依据这些方法论，对于奥地利学派的制度理论进行了讨论。本书的中国作者均为国内奥地利学派研究的年轻学者。另外也收入了三位国外学者的著述，对于国内学界了解奥地利学派的最新研究进展极有帮助。本书还收入两篇学术随笔，具有很高可读性。

本书汇集了黄宗智先生学术研究的精华。全书经作者亲自校阅，是比较权威的版本。
书中介绍了黄先生一贯强调的从经验证据到理论概念到经验/实践的研究方法，以及著名的黄氏“内卷化”、“过密化”理论。在翔实的经验证据基础上，论证了小农在人多地少的客观环境下所做的抉择，尤其是长时期为递减报酬而做出的高密度劳动投入，亦即作者之所谓“没有发展（劳动生产率提高）的增长（总产出上升）” 以及“过密型商品化”。其影响可见于近年来“内卷”和“过密”两词在各社会科学学科的广泛应用。其后，黄在《规范认识》文中对中、西方研究作了整体性的反思，突出中国经验（从西方现存理论理解）的悖论性，引起众多的讨论。
此后黄宗智的研究主要转向法律史，再次在发掘 “诉讼案件档案的基础上”，打出新颖的分析概念，区别清代法律的官方“表达”与其司法“实践”，强调两者既背离而又统一，由此形成清代法律的基本性质。此后“表达、实践”两词的对立也在国内众多论著中广泛使用。黄提出了清代法律体系中的“第三领域”概念——亦即国家正规法庭与社区非正式调解相互作用的中间领域。后又进一步说明了该领域中的“半正式”治理方法（即对准官员的依赖以及国家惟有在涉及他们的纠纷中方始介入）。黄把清代的这个治理模式称作“集权的简约治理”。
在新近的四篇法律论文中，黄进一步指出，现代西方的实践历史同样不同于任何意识形态化的理论建构，尤其是西方现代影响最大的形式主义理论传统。他强调，中国从传统延续至今的“实用道德主义”思维方式与现代西方的形式主义思维方式形成鲜明的对照。今天，中国固然需要吸纳形式逻辑来建立理论，但也应建立既是中国的而又是现代的现代性，包括法律体系和社会科学。
面对中国当前的“三农问题”，黄既强调其过密化的历史延续，也指出在当前的“三大历史性变迁”中，中国农业终于面临“去过密化”的历史性契机。有关的论文揭示的是过密化“理论”本身的历史性，自始便与特定历史条件相连。
紧密连接经验与理论是黄教授学术生涯的一贯研究方法。本集最后一篇论文是他近年为国内研究生开办的研修班的说明，也可以看作是他对自己学术方法的一个总结性介绍。

The work that helped to determine Paul Feyerabend's fame and notoriety, "Against Method," stemmed from Imre Lakatos's challenge: "In 1970 Imre cornered me at a party. "Paul", he said, "you have such strange ideas. Why don't you write them down? I shall write a reply, we publish the whole thing and I promise you - we shall have a lot of fun." Although Lakatos died before he could write his reply, this text reconstructs his original counter-arguments from lectures and correspondence previously unpublished in English, allowing us to enjoy the "fun" two of this century's most eminent philosophers had, matching their wits and ideas on the subject of the scientific method. The text opens with an imaginary dialogue between Lakatos and Feyerabend, which Matteo Motterlini has constructed, based on their published works, to synthesize their positions and arguments. Part one presents the transcripts of the last lectures on method that Lakatos delivered. Part two, Feyerabend's response, consists of a previously published essay on anarchism, which began the attack on Lakatos's position that Feyerabend later continued in "Against Method." The third and longest section consists of the correspondence Lakatos and Feyerabend exchanged on method and many other issues and ideas, as well as the events of their daily lives, between 1968 and Lakatos's death in 1974.

Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett emphatically answers "yes!" Using an array of provocative formulations, Dennett sets out to show how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Weaving a richly detailed narrative, Dennett explains in a series of strikingly original arguments—drawing upon evolutionary biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, and philosophy—that far from being an enemy of traditional explorations of freedom, morality, and meaning, the evolutionary perspective can be an indispensable ally. In Freedom Evolves , Dennett seeks to place ethics on the foundation it deserves: a realistic, naturalistic, potentially unified vision of our place in nature.

"McCloskey and Ziliak have been pushing this very elementary, very correct, very important argument through several articles over several years and for reasons I cannot fathom it is still resisted. If it takes a book to get it across, I hope this book will do it. It ought to."--Thomas Schelling, Distinguished University Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, and 2005 Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics "With humor, insight, piercing logic and a nod to history, Ziliak and McCloskey show how economists--and other scientists--suffer from a mass delusion about statistical analysis. The quest for statistical significance that pervades science today is a deeply flawed substitute for thoughtful analysis. . . . Yet few participants in the scientific bureaucracy have been willing to admit what Ziliak and McCloskey make clear: the emperor has no clothes."--Kenneth Rothman, Professor of Epidemiology, Boston University School of Health "The Cult of Statistical Significance" shows, field by field, how "statistical significance," a technique that dominates many sciences, has been a huge mistake. The authors find that researchers in a broad spectrum of fields, from agronomy to zoology, employ "testing" that doesn't test and "estimating" that doesn't estimate. The facts will startle the outside reader: how could a group of brilliant scientists wander so far from scientific magnitudes? This study will encourage scientists who want to know how to get the statistical sciences back on track and fulfill their quantitative promise. The book shows for the first time how wide the disaster is, and how bad for science, and it traces the problem to its historical, sociological, and philosophical roots. Stephen T. Ziliak is the author or editor of many articles and two books. He currently lives in Chicago, where he is Professor of Economics at Roosevelt University. Deirdre N. McCloskey, Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the author of twenty books and three hundred scholarly articles. She has held Guggenheim and National Humanities Fellowships. She is best known for "How to Be Human* Though an Economist "(University of Michigan Press, 2000) and her most recent book, "The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce "(2006).

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"An intellectual tour of the discipline of comparative politics with some of its most creative pioneers and contemporary practitioners. The carefully organized interviews offer surprising perspectives about our eclectic and evolving field, and remind us of why we became scholars of comparative politics in the first place." -- Edward Gibson, Northwestern University
"This fascinating history of comparative politics offers a panoramic view of major debates and of trends in theoretical and methodological approaches over the second half of the 20th century. It brings the field to life by letting scholars who shaped it sketch their own intellectual biographies. Reading it is a truly enriching and enjoyable experience for any comparativist." -- Evelyne Huber, University of North Carolina
"This book fills a huge void in the profession of political science. Through a series of fifteen carefully prepared and referenced, wide-ranging, and often captivating interviews with many of the most influential scholars of comparative politics, we gain a priceless perspective on the growth of the discipline and the craft of research and theory building. In their intelligent and probing interviews (and very valuable introductory chapters), Munck and Snyder go a long way toward correcting our crippling deficit in professional memory, while revealing the life histories, moral convictions, intellectual passions, and divergent theoretical and methodological approaches that have shaped and advanced comparative politics in the last half-century. This book should be read by everyone who is preparing for, or thinking about, a career in political science, no matter the field." -- Larry Diamond, coeditor, Journal of Democracy
"Reading autobiographical reflections of notable scholars is a pleasurable way of learning about a field of study. These interviews cover a good slice of modern comparative government. They are wide ranging, focused, and informative. And fun to read." -- Nelson W. Polsby, University of California, Berkeley
"To show how great works that have shaped our understanding of politics and society are rooted in individual lives is a wonderful project. Munck and Snyder are the best of guides. Thoroughly informed about the scholarship, they explore the personal side with deftness, tact, and imagination. The result is a series of lively and revealing intellectual portraits." -- Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Watson Institute for International Studies
"A fascinating oral history of comparative politics in the United States. You could read the collected books and articles of all the fifteen leading lights represented here and never grasp the insights that these interviews offer: how wars, immigration, and the economy shaped the research agenda; how the backgrounds, personalities, and life experiences of these scholars guided their work; and how these scholars evaluate one another and those beyond this elite circle. Munck and Snyder have performed an invaluable service to the discipline." -- Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame
"This distinctive book frequently illuminates the dynamics of major scholars' research agendas (and of their career paths more generally), thus making it highly recommended reading for researchers in this subfield." -- Choice
"I told my qualitative research class to read at least three of the interviews in the book and summarize what they took from each. The response was amazing. Most of them had read most of the book. They were moved, inspired, and reassured by it. Each of them felt validated by something one of these scholars said. We ended up discussing the interviews through much of the class... the discussion of how real scholars relate their world and their scholarship was so exciting to them that I didn't want to stop it. So thanks... for helping them to bridge the often daunting distance between themselves and the names on the texts they read in class -- it was truly rewarding." -- Margaret Keck, Johns Hopkins University
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In the first collection of interviews with the most prominent scholars in comparative politics since World War II, Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder trace key developments in the field during the twentieth century.
Organized around a broad set of themes -- intellectual formation and training; major works and ideas; the craft and tools of research; colleagues, collaborators, and students; and the past and future of comparative politics -- these in-depth interviews offer unique and candid reflections that bring the research process to life and shed light on the human dimension of scholarship.
Giving voice to scholars who practice their craft in different ways yet share a passion for knowledge about global politics, Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics offers a wealth of insights into contemporary debates about the state of knowledge in comparative politics and the future of the field.

《语言兴衰论》提出一个新的关于语言变化的裂变一聚变模式。过去语言学家认为语言演变只是分化裂变，因而建立了一个谱系树模型来刻画。而《未名译库·语言兴衰论》提出一个新的不但包括裂变，而且包括聚变的语言演变模型。这是因为我们现在认识到，在人类自有语言以来的十多万年中，语言不但会裂变，还会聚变。在聚变期，语言特征在某个地区扩散，结果当地的语言会聚变为一个共同的原型。随着民族以及语言的扩张和分裂，聚变稳态时不时地被打断。近几个世纪来，由于欧洲的殖民扩张和全球的信息交流，很多语言都面临灭绝。

In the wake of his enormously popular books The Armchair Economist and More Sex Is Safer Sex , Slate columnist and Economics professor Steven Landsburg uses concepts from mathematics, economics, and physics to address the big questions in philosophy: What is real? What can we know? What is the difference between right and wrong? And how should we live? Landsburg begins with the broadest possible categories from a mathematical analysis of the arguments for the existence of God; to the real meaning of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle and the Godel Incompleteness Theorem; to the moral choices we face in the marketplace and the voting booth. Stimulating, illuminating, and always surprising, The Big Questions challenges readers to re-evaluate their most fundamental beliefs and reveals the relationship between the loftiest philosophical quests and our everyday lives.