'A great writer who spoke brilliantly to a whole generation. Prophet-like' Alec Guinness
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ZADIE SMITH
Into the intrigue and violence of Indo-China comes Pyle, a young idealistic American sent to promote democracy through a mysterious 'Third Force'. As his naive optimism starts to cause bloodshed, his friend Fowler, a cynical foreign correspondent, finds it hard to stand aside and watch. But even as he intervenes he wonders why: for the sake of politics, or for love?

《现代宏观经济学:起源发展和现状》按现代宏观经济学起源、发展与现状的时间脉络，梳理该学科各思想流派代表人物及其主要理论主张的形成、演进过程，并对各学派的理论主张、经济学模型等进行了精当的评述。为帮助读者了解宏观经济学主要学派的学术成就及缺陷，在第三、四、五、六、七、十、十一各章末尾还附有对该学派领军人物的采访录，供读者参考。

This volume is a collection of sixteen essays on three general topics: the methodology of economics, the applicability of economic reasoning to political science and other social sciences, and the relevance of economics as moral philosophy. Several essays are published here for the first time, including: Professor Alchian on Economic Method; Natural and Artifactual Man, and; Public Choice and Ideology. This book provides relatively easy access to a wide range of work by a moral and legal philosopher, a welfare economist who has consistently defended the primacy of the contractarian ethic, a public finance theorist, and a founder of the burgeoning subdiscipline of public choice. Buchanan's work has spawned a methodological revolution in the way economists and other scholars think about government and government activity. As a measure of recognition for his significant contribution, Dr Buchanan was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Economics.

For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why—and how—it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from "wild" folk belief to "domesticated" dogma. Not an antireligious screed but an unblinking look beneath the veil of orthodoxy, Breaking the Spell will be read and debated by believers and skeptics alike.

One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to engineering and cultural evolution. Dennett's analyses of the objections to evolutionary theory are unsurpassed. Extremely lucid, wonderfully written, and scientifically and philosophically impeccable. Highest Recommendation!

Some things are funny—jokes, puns, sitcoms, Charlie Chaplin, The Far Side, Malvolio with his yellow garters crossed—but why? Why does humor exist in the first place? Why do we spend so much of our time passing on amusing anecdotes, making wisecracks, watching The Simpsons? In Inside Jokes, Matthew Hurley, Daniel Dennett, and Reginald Adams offer an evolutionary and cognitive perspective. Humor, they propose, evolved out of a computational problem that arose when our long-ago ancestors were furnished with open-ended thinking. Mother Nature—aka natural selection—cannot just order the brain to find and fix all our time-pressured misleaps and near-misses. She has to bribe the brain with pleasure. So we find them funny. This wired-in source of pleasure has been tickled relentlessly by humorists over the centuries, and we have become addicted to the endogenous mind candy that is humor.
Hurley, Dennett, and Adams describe the evolutionary reasons for humor and for laughter. They examine why humor is pleasurable and desirable, often sharable, surprising, playful, nonsensical, and insightful. They give an "inside," mechanistic account of the cognitive and emotional apparatus that provides the humor experience, and they use it to explain the wide variety of things that are found to be humorous. They also provide a preliminary sketch of an emotional and computational model of humor, arguing that (Star Trek's Data to the contrary) any truly intelligent computational agent could not be engineered without humor.

One of today's most controversial and heated issues is whether or not the conflict between science and religion can be reconciled. In Science and Religion: Are They Compatible?, renowned philosophers Daniel C. Dennett and Alvin Plantinga expand upon the arguments that they presented in an exciting live debate held at the 2009 American Philosophical Association Central Division conference. An enlightening discussion that will motivate students to think critically, Science and Religion: Are They Compatible? opens with Plantinga's assertion that Christianity is compatible with evolutionary theory because Christians believe that God created the living world, and it is entirely possible that God did so by using a process of evolution. Dennett vigorously rejects this argument, provoking a reply from Plantinga, another response from Dennett, and final statements from both sides. As philosophers, the authors possess expert skills in critical analysis; their arguments provide a model of dialogue between those who strongly disagree. Ideal for courses in philosophy of religion, science and religion, and philosophy of science, Science and Religion is also captivating reading for general readers.

How are we able to understand and anticipate each other in everyday life, in our daily interactions? Through the use of such "folk" concepts as belief, desire, intention, and expectation, asserts Daniel Dennett in this first full-scale presentation of a theory of intentionality that he has been developing for almost twenty years. We adopt a stance, he argues, a predictive strategy of interpretation that presupposes the rationality of the people - or other entities - we are hoping to understand and predict.These principles of radical interpretation have far-reaching implications for the metaphysical and scientific status of the processes referred to by the everday terms of folk psychology and their corresponding terms in cognitive science.While Dennett's philosophical stance has been steadfast over the years, his views have undergone successive enrichments, refinements, and extensions. The Intentional Stance brings together both previously published and original material: four of the book's ten chapters - its first and the final three - appear here for the first time and push the theory into surprising new territory. The remaining six were published earlier in the 1980s but were not easily accessible; each is followed by a reflection - an essay reconsidering and extending the claims of the earlier work. These reflections and the new chapters represent the vanguard of Dennett's thought. They reveal fresh lines of inquiry into fundamental issues in psychology, artificial intelligence, and evolutionary theory as well as traditional issues in the philosophy of mind.Daniel C. Dennett is Distinguished Arts and Sciences Professor at Tufts University and the author of Brainstorms and Elbow Room. The Intentional Stance, along with these works, is a Bradford Book.

This collection of 17 essays by the author offers a comprehensive theory of mind, encompassing traditional issues of consciousness and free will. Using careful arguments and ingenious thought-experiments, the author exposes familiar preconceptions and hobbling institutions. The essays are grouped into four sections: Intentional Explanation and Attributions of Mentality; The Nature of Theory in Psychology; Objects of Consciousness and the Nature of Experience; and Free Will and Personhood.

This book revises the traditional view of consciousness by claiming that Cartesianism and Descartes' dualism of mind and body should be replaced with theories from the realms of neuroscience, psychology and artificial intelligence. What people think of as the stream of consciousness is not a single, unified sequence, the author argues, but "multiple drafts" of reality composed by a computer-like "virtual machine". Dennett considers how consciousness could have evolved in human beings and confronts the classic mysteries of consciousness: the nature of introspection, the self or ego and its relation to thoughts and sensations, and the level of consciousness of non-human creatures.

本书是一本简明通俗的哲学著作、但它既不是各种哲学问题的概览，也不是哲学问题的简史，而是概括了塞尔40余年来研究成果的重要哲学著作。本书对心灵、语言和社会实在的结构性特征以及它们相互之间的逻辑依存关系进和了分析，并在此基础上阐明它们是怎样结合在一起的。当代美英分析哲学和语言哲学、往往拘泥于命题、语词的研究，而忽略了哲学的基本问题。塞尔将语言哲学的观点用于研究心身问题，使语言哲学也开始回归到传统哲学的基本问题。而且，塞尔在本书中吸取了现代科学，特别是神经生理学、神经生物学、认知科学，人工智能以及经济学、社会学等方面的研究成果，充实了理论论述的内容，在很大程度上突破了分析哲学的传统框架。

戴维·布鲁克斯编著的《社会动物(爱性格和成就的潜在根源)(精)》是一个关于爱、性格和成就的故事，而且很快会成为你读过的最幸福的成功故事。 作者在《社会动物(爱性格和成就的潜在根源)(精)》中精心刻画了两个栩栩如生的角色，他们是一对美国的夫妻：丈夫哈罗德出身中产阶级家庭，妻子埃丽卡则是来自贫民区破碎家庭的中墨混血儿。哈罗德和埃丽卡经历着人生的磨炼，逐渐变得成熟、睿智，这是本书中的故事之所以如此让人愉悦的原因之一。这是一个关于人类成功和交流的故事，是两位主人公继承双亲与祖辈的优良传统，经历考验与磨炼，最终决定相守一生的故事。 它不同于一般励志书所定义的表象化的成功——高智商高学历、一技之长、令人羡慕的工作、显赫的身份地位。本书所探讨的是更深层面的东西。关于成功，本书的观点是：情感比纯粹的理性更为重要，社会关系比个体选择更为重要，性格比智商更为重要，灵活应变的有机系统比线性呆板的机械系统更为重要，群体智慧比个体思考更为重要。

當菁英分子在為了意識型態的問題爭執不休時，他們不敢面對的真相是：真正的問題是貧富差距的擴大以及教育的失敗。
當菁英分子在全球經濟趨勢裡跨國流動時，他們不敢承認的事實是：他們背叛了對於民主和社會的承諾。
《菁英的反叛》是美國最特立獨行的歷史學家和社會評論家克里斯多夫．拉許（Christopher Lasch）去世前的最後作品，也是他的思想的代表作。
拉許延續他一貫雄渾沉鬱而又原創的思想，以深入淺出的批評，突顯知識工作者和管理者階級的價值和信仰的偏差。他認為現在民主的威脅不再是以前奧德嘉賈塞特（Jose Ortega y Gasset）所說的「群眾」，而是菁英分子。他們隨著全球化經濟的變遷而到處流動，不再接受國家或社群的約束，自我封閉在自己的網路和圈地裡，拋棄了中產階級，分裂了國家，甚至背叛了民主的理想。
拉許藉古諷今，揭露現代的難題根源。他批評功績主義（有選擇性地拔擢某些人為菁英分子）逐漸取代了尊重每個人的才能的民主理想，以及左派學者虛偽的基進主義。拉許甚至窮究西方民主問化的精神危機：菁英們相信僅靠科學就可以掌握命運，逃避道德和宗教的約束，在追求這個妄想時，他們就迷失在全球經濟的洪流裡。
拉許要讀者們從菁英分子們眾聲喧嘩的意識型態戰爭裡覺醒，我們社會的問題不再是人權、種族或性別歧視的問題，而是貧富差距的擴大、教育的失敗、學者的虛偽和自私、民眾的沉默，以及媒體的廣告化操弄。他呼籲我們回歸社群、責任感的傳統，重拾民主辯論的價值，並且認識到我們社會的真正困境：問題不在意識型態的對立，而在於新的貧富階級的對立。

A renowned political philosopher rethinks the role that markets and money should play in our society
Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we put a price on human life to decide how much pollution to allow? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars, outsourcing inmates to for-profit prisons, auctioning admission to elite universities, or selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay?
In his New York Times bestseller What Money Can’t Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes up one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Isn’t there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don’t belong? What are the moral limits of markets?
In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society.
In Justice, an international bestseller, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can’t Buy, he provokes a debate that’s been missing in our market-driven age: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society, and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets do not honor and money cannot buy?

In this landmark work, a Nobel Prize-winning economist develops a new way of understanding the process by which economies change. Douglass North inspired a revolution in economic history a generation ago by demonstrating that economic performance is determined largely by the kind and quality of institutions that support markets. As he showed in two now classic books that inspired the New Institutional Economics (today a subfield of economics), property rights and transaction costs are fundamental determinants. Here, North explains how different societies arrive at the institutional infrastructure that greatly determines their economic trajectories. North argues that economic change depends largely on 'adaptive efficiency,' a society's effectiveness in creating institutions that are productive, stable, fair, and broadly accepted - and, importantly, flexible enough to be changed or replaced in response to political and economic feedback.While adhering to his earlier definition of institutions as the formal and informal rules that constrain human economic behavior, he extends his analysis to explore the deeper determinants of how these rules evolve and how economies change. Drawing on recent work by psychologists, he identifies intentionality as the crucial variable and proceeds to demonstrate how intentionality emerges as the product of social learning and how it then shapes the economy's institutional foundations and thus its capacity to adapt to changing circumstances. "Understanding the Process of Economic Change" accounts not only for past institutional change but also for the diverse performance of present-day economies. This major work is therefore also an essential guide to improving the performance of developing countries.

萨缪尔森的《经济分析基础》（以下简称《基础》）最早成文于1937一1938年，1941年以论文的形式发表。它是现代西方数理经济学的早期代表作之一。这部著作与其他少数几本著作（如希克斯的《价值与资本》（1939年）和纽曼发表于20和40年代的著作）共同为现代西方数理经济学奠定了基础。按照西方经济学界的看法，西方经济学从用20世纪30年代以前的语言表达和图解式的分析方法转变为用现代数理经济分析方法这一重大发展过程，萨缪尔森作出了具有开创性的贡献。可以说，他所作的贡献比其他任何人都要大。萨缪尔森对西方经济学的发展集中地反映在他的《基础》一书中。《基础》出版以来将近半个世纪的时间里，使用高深数学的风气一直盛行于西方经济学界，这种现象的出现被人归因于《基础》的问世。《基础》在西方经济学中成了一部划时代的著作，甚至有的人把它奉为现代数理经济学的“圣经”。它所开创的数学形式主义与新古典理论相互综合的分析方法：新古典综合分析，在欧美经济学界一直占居着主导地位。以萨缪尔森为代表人物的新古典综合派也一直是西方经济学的主流学派。萨缪尔森本人亦于1970年荣获诺贝尔经济学纪念奖金，成为美国获得诺贝尔经济学奖的第一人。

The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatisation of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. Offering a critique of the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor Ostrom here provides a unique body of empirical data to explore conditions under which common pool resource problems have been satisfactorily or unsatisfactorily solved. Dr Ostrom first describes three models most frequently used as the foundation for recommending state or market solutions. She then outlines theoretical and empirical alternatives to these models in order to illustrate the diversity of possible solutions. In the following chapters she uses institutional analysis to examine different ways - both successful and unsuccessful - of governing the commons. In contrast to the proposition of the tragedy of the commons argument, common pool problems sometimes are solved by voluntary organisations rather than by a coercive state. Among the cases considered are communal tenure in meadows and forests, irrigation communities and other water rights, and fisheries.

Since its publication in 1966, "The Triumph of the Therapeutic" has been hailed as a work of genuine brilliance, one of those books whose insights uncannily anticipate cultural developments and whose richness of argumentation reorients entire fields of inquiry. This special fortieth-anniversary edition of Philip Rieff' s masterpiece, the first volume in ISI Books' new Background series, includes an introduction by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn and essays on the text by historians Eugene McCarraher and Wilfred McClay and philosopher Stephen Gardner.