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曼瑟·奥尔森在逝世前完成的《权力与繁荣》一书触及了他一生所关注的问题：为什么有些经济体表现如此抢眼，能够提供令人瞩目的财富与繁荣，而有些经济体却不能做到这点？不同类型的政府是如何阻碍或者促进经济增长的？以及，随着苏联体制的崩溃，为什么市场经济没有能够在前苏联东欧国家繁荣起来？在本书中，奥尔森认为政府在市场发展过程中起着至关重要的作用。对私人契约与个人财产权利的可靠保护，取决于政府要足够强大以保证这些权利的实施，同时政府又要受到足够的限制以避免这些权利受到侵蚀。他在本书中提出的“强化市场型政府”概念是分析经济增长的一个前沿性概念，并且为金融危机后的亚洲以及其他发展中国家的治理演变和经济政策提供了一个有用的分析框架。

诺贝尔文学奖得主埃利亚斯·卡内提最具影响力的杰作。本书从人的生物性和社会性的结合上剖析、阐述了人与人之间的关系。本书涉及人类学、生物学、社会学方面的知识，与此相应，作者使用的范畴、概念的范围也很广。本书对社会学方面有研究的读者具有重要参考价值。

《权力的精神生活:服从的理论》对黑格尔、尼采、弗洛伊德、福柯、阿尔杜塞等有关服从理论的论述进行了比较研究，以读书笔记的形式阐述了作者对服从的观点：权力在主体的屈从与生产中的双重作用与权力所采取的精神形式。作为权力的一种形式，服从是自相矛盾的。被一种外在于自身的权力所支配是权力所采取的一种熟悉的和苦恼的形式。但是，为了发现“某人”是什么，某人作为一个主体的形成，所依赖的权利却完全是另一种权力。按照福柯的说法，如果我们理解了权力同样形成了主体，它就提供了它存在的条件和它欲望的轨迹。权力不仅仅是我们的存在所依靠的东西，它也形成了自反性。利用黑格尔、尼采、弗洛伊德、福柯和阿尔杜塞，这本富有挑战性和明晰的著作提供了主体形成的理论，它阐明了矛盾的社会权利的精神作用。

Alchian has made important contributions to the economic analysis of inflation and unemployment and to the theory of costs and of the firm. He has played the leading role in the development of a theory of property rights. His writing is distinguished by his ability to disentangle the essential from the trivial and, above all, by his skill in showing how the same basic economic forces are at working in a wide variety of apparently completely different social settings.

Lawyer, doctor, scientist--these are the jobs Americans commonly cite when asked to list the most prestigious occupations. The word "professional" today implies expertise, authority, and excellence. To do a job professionally is to do it well. Yet in a society in which knowledge has become a prized asset and an advanced degree the ticket to wealth and power, the rise of professionalism has a darker, more ominous side.
Power in the Highest Degree, one of the most comprehensive studies of professionals ever undertaken, exposes professionalism as a double-edged sword; it illustrates how experts have come to "own" and control knowledge, much like the wealthy control capital, thereby transforming capitalist and socialist society, both for better and for worse. Knowledge long predates money as a source of power and wealth in human society, and professionals are only the most recent in a long succession of powerful knowledge classes that have included shaman, witchdoctors, and the Confucian mandarins who ruled China for over a thousand years.
Drawing on interviews with over 1,000 practicing professionals, the authors show how, by dispensing self-interested and morally colored judgements as scientific truth, modern professionals are consolidating a monopoly over what passes for objective knowledge. Experts discredit the ordinary knowledge of the general public to generate a vast market of dependent clients. The result is a powerful professional class that creates vital new knowledge and life-saving services, but also wields growing influence over a population deeply insecure about its ability to manage private and public affairs without "expert" guidance.
This sweeping study also reveals that more and more experts are abandoning private practice to work for corporations, becoming junior partners in a new "Mandarin capitalism." While often outspoken advocates of a more socially responsible business world, professionals have joined big business to produce one of the most pronounced divisions of mental and manual work in history, creating a new dispossessed majority, the uncredentialed. We learn of an experiment at Polaroid to give machine operators more responsibility which is cancelled when managers and engineers decided that they "just didn't want operators that qualified." The authors argue that, as this new "mandarin" class radically transforms the social order, it helps to reform some of the traditional scourges of the business world, but also poses a new threat to equality in America. To reverse this trend, they propose a post-professional society that de-emphasizes skill hierarchies and substantially democratizes knowledge.
A bold and incisive new work of social criticism, this book provides a fascinating look at the modern professional and provokes Americans to think in a new way about democracy in the age of experts.

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and critiques the organization of power in the United States, calling attention to three firmly interlocked prongs of power: the military, corporate, and political elite. The Power Elite can be read as a good account of what was taking place in America at the time it was written, but its underlying question of whether America is as democratic in practice as it is in theory continues to matter very much today. What The Power Elite informed readers of in 1956 was how much the organization of power in America had changed during their lifetimes, and Alan Wolfe's astute afterword to this new edition brings us up to date, illustrating how much more has changed since then. Wolfe sorts out what is helpful in Mills book and which of his predictions have not come to bear, laying out the radical changes in American capitalism, from intense global competition and the collapse of communism to rapid technological transformations and ever changing consumer tastes. The Power Elite has stimulated generations of readers to think about the kind of society they have and the kind of society they might want, and deserves to be read by every new generation.