《社会的经济》所收集的论文并非是想对社会学通常的出发点进行批判。它更不应被理解为是对经济学理论形态的批判。它只是另辟蹊径——估计人们通过其他别的途径偶尔也会相遇（尽管可能是以某些出人意料的方式），然后才能决定意见是否一致以及运用哪些先行规则。社会学家一般在研究经济问题的时候，对经济学研究的看法更容易是补充性的甚至是“批判性的”。例如，塔尔科特•帕森斯至今还处在1929年世界经济危机的印象中，他在认真拜读了社会学经典作家的著作之后宣称，经济科学中关于个人功利主义的出发点是能持久的，甚至是完全不现实的。每个行为都有一个文化因素和社会因素。所以，与阿罗讨论社会性这个个体优先权聚集问题，一开始就错了。甚至连赫尔穆特•舍尔斯基也谈到对《决策》评价过高的问题。新近的出版物要求更多地考虑经济的外部因素，更多地考虑把合理性、竞争和冲突的观念置于其中。这可以被概括为经济的“制度化”观点并追溯到一种连经济学家本身都不知道的传统之中，从而与经济学理论问题，尤其与合理的决策以及孕育着矛盾的分配问题联系起来，同时也避免了去涉足另一座科学的殿堂。

Classic analysis of the subject and the development of personal probability; one of the greatest controversies in modern statistcal thought. New preface and new footnotes to 1954 edition, with a supplementary 180-item annotated bibliography by author. Calculus, probability, statistics and Boolean algebra are recommended.

Ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively, Stone Age Economics includes six studies that reflect the author's ideas on revising traditional views of hunter-gatherer and so-called primitive societies, revealing them to be the original affluent society. When it was originally published in 1974, E. Evans-Pritchard of the Times Literary Supplement noted that this classic study of anthropological economics "is rich in factual evidence and in ideas, so rich that a brief review cannot do it justice; only another book could do that."

Israel Kirzner is the foremost proponent of the modern Austrian theory of the market process. This book offers substantive insights in support of this theory and a new historical interpretation of how the ideas of modern Austrians emerged.

This book comprises the text of the first series of Ryde lectures, established by Lund University in Sweden. It offers a broad survey of various macroeconomic topics which feature prominently in research as well as theoretical and policy debate. An authoritative, comprehensive summary and original critique of modern macroeconomic approaches, the book reviews one school of economic thought in each chapter: Keynesian; monetarist; New Classical school; New Keynesian school; supply side macroeconomics; "non-monetary" models of macroeconomics; and real business cycle theory and the "structuralist school."

Debunking Economics 2 exposes what many non-economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known: that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong. When the original Debunking was published back in 2001, the market economy seemed invincible, and conventional 'neoclassical' economic theory basked in the limelight. Steve Keen argued that economists deserved none of the credit for the economy's performance, and 'The false confidence it has engendered in the stability of the market economy has encouraged policy-makers to dismantle some of the institutions which initially evolved to try to keep its instability within limits'. That instability exploded with the devastating financial crisis of 2007, and now haunts the global economy with the prospect of another Depression. In this expanded and updated new edition, Keen builds on his scathing critique of conventional economic theory whilst explaining what mainstream economists cannot: why the crisis occurred, why it is proving to be intractable, and what needs to be done to end it. Essential for anyone who has ever doubted the advice or reasoning of economists, Debunking Economics 2 provides a signpost to a better future.

Among the most widely cited books in the social sciences, "The External Control of Organizations" has long been required reading for any student of organization studies. The book, reissued on its 25th anniversary as part of the Stanford Business Classics series, includes a new preface written by Jeffrey Pfeffer, which examines the legacy of this influential work in current research and its relationship to other theories. The "External Control of Organizations" explores how external constraints affect organizations and provides insights for designing and managing organizations to mitigate these constraints. All organizations are dependent on the environment for their survival. As the authors contend, "it is the fact of the organization's dependence on the environment that makes the external constraint and control of organizational behavior both possible and almost inevitable." Organizations can either try to change their environments through political means or form interorganizational relationships to control or absorb uncertainty. This seminal book established the resource dependence approach that has informed so many other important organization theories.

Tomas Sedlacek has shaken the study of economics as few ever have. Named one of the "Young Guns" and one of the "five hot minds in economics" by the Yale Economic Review, he serves on the National Economic Council in Prague, where his provocative writing has achieved bestseller status. How has he done it? By arguing a simple, almost heretical proposition: economics is ultimately about good and evil. In The Economics of Good and Evil, Sedlacek radically rethinks his field, challenging our assumptions about the world. Economics is touted as a science, a value-free mathematical inquiry, he writes, but it's actually a cultural phenomenon, a product of our civilization. It began within philosophy-Adam Smith himself not only wrote The Wealth of Nations, but also The Theory of Moral Sentiments-and economics, as Sedlacek shows, is woven out of history, myth, religion, and ethics. "Even the most sophisticated mathematical model," Sedlacek writes, "is, de facto, a story, a parable, our effort to (rationally) grasp the world around us." Economics not only describes the world, but establishes normative standards, identifying ideal conditions. Science, he claims, is a system of beliefs to which we are committed. To grasp the beliefs underlying economics, he breaks out of the field's confines with a tour de force exploration of economic thinking, broadly defined, over the millennia. He ranges from the epic of Gilgamesh and the Old Testament to the emergence of Christianity, from Descartes and Adam Smith to the consumerism in Fight Club. Throughout, he asks searching meta-economic questions: What is the meaning and the point of economics? Can we do ethically all that we can do technically? Does it pay to be good? Placing the wisdom of philosophers and poets over strict mathematical models of human behavior, Sedlacek's groundbreaking work promises to change the way we calculate economic value.

Pan Am, Gimbel's, Pullman, Douglas Aircraft, Digital Equipment Corporation, British Leyland--all once as strong as dinosaurs, all now just as extinct. Destruction of businesses, fortunes, products, and careers is the price of progress toward a better material life. No one understood this bedrock economic principle better than Joseph A. Schumpeter. "Creative destruction," he said, is the driving force of capitalism. </p>
Described by John Kenneth Galbraith as "the most sophisticated conservative" of the twentieth century, Schumpeter made his mark as the prophet of incessant change. His vision was stark: Nearly all businesses fail, victims of innovation by their competitors. Businesspeople ignore this lesson at their peril--to survive, they must be entrepreneurial and think strategically. Yet in Schumpeter's view, the general prosperity produced by the "capitalist engine" far outweighs the wreckage it leaves behind. </p>
During a tumultuous life spanning two world wars, the Great Depression, and the early Cold War, Schumpeter reinvented himself many times. From boy wonder in turn-of-the-century Vienna to captivating Harvard professor, he was stalked by tragedy and haunted by the specter of his rival, John Maynard Keynes. By 1983--the centennial of the birth of both men--Forbes christened Schumpeter, not Keynes, the best navigator through the turbulent seas of globalization. Time has proved that assessment accurate. </p>
Prophet of Innovation is also the private story of a man rescued repeatedly by women who loved him and put his well-being above their own. Without them, he would likely have perished, so fierce were the conflicts between his reason and his emotions. Drawing on all of Schumpeter's writings, including many intimate diaries and letters never before used, this biography paints the full portrait of a magnetic figure who aspired to become the world's greatest economist, lover, and horseman--and admitted to failure only with the horses. </p>

《茶叶与鸦片:十九世纪经济全球化中的中国》内容简介：全球史研究的兴起，是近年来国际学坛上的一件大事，昭示着历史学发展过程中一个新时代的开始。仲伟民教授的这本新著，就是我国学坛对这个大事件作出的最新回应之一。
依照当今国际学坛中全球史研究的领军人物奥布雷恩教授的总结，全球史这个学科可以远溯到希罗多德。

施尔马赫博士的新书，几乎称的上是一部情节紧张、扣人心弦的犯罪小说。与此同时，他洋洋洒洒旁征博引，史学家、经济学家、科学哲学家、现代计算机先驱人物的一颦一动见诸笔端，满卷注释，不尽其详，论述如同咒语般斩钉截铁，再加上半明半昧的暗示，令读者深陷其中，勉力跟从他的逻辑，力求作出判断。弗兰克•施尔马赫，兼文学批评家、资深报人及政论作家于一身，是当代德国文学评论和媒体圈中举重若轻的人物，他继莱希-兰尼基（Marcel Reich-Ranicki）之后，入主《法兰克福汇报》文学评论编辑部，34岁便跻身这家德国最有影响力的报业集团最高决策层，成为报社5位发行人之一，执掌该报文化副刊逾20年，成功创办《汇报周日刊》，并且著述颇丰，频频出镜。他是一位“对题材具有天然嗅觉的偏执报人”，用《明镜》撰稿人雅各布•奥古斯坦的话来说，“他并不是一位普通的专业书籍作者。基因问题、老龄化问题、家庭解体问题、个人数据保护问题、互联网和金融市场问题，都是他论战的战场。这些话题并非由他而起，然而他却总能让争论更为深入。批评他的人指责他危言耸听，好斗成性，曝光成瘾，贪恋成功，这都没错。他本就是这个国家最让人欲罢不能的媒体人。”这一次，他将论战的矛头直接指向了失控的利己主义。
本书正式发行前一周，就已经在各大德语媒体激起争议，七嘴八舌，沸沸扬扬。“本书展开论述的基础是一个颇为独特的命题”，施尔马赫在前言中这样写道：“经济学的思维模式已经征服了其他所有社会科学领域，并控制了非经济学学科”。后果不外乎此：“接触过这种思维模式的人，会因此改变自己的行为。所有人类活动的背后，都是无从回避的自利逻辑在发挥作用，这样的世界观像流水线一样，生产出大量自私自利的人。”
施尔马赫的故事中，一切发端于冷战时期。当年，如果哪一方能够洞烛先机，正确分析对手的意图与行动计划，实在是占尽先机，生死攸关的大事。将对手复杂的心理和行为过程做一点简化，就成为官方战略思路的出发点。为了谨慎行事，避开对方的陷阱，只有求助于一个独一无二的假设，假设人人都遵循自利原则，在他人面前一定会或多或少地隐瞒一些真相，目的只是赢取一场生命的游戏。只有接受这个大前提，才有可能利用数学方法预测对手的下一步行动。