In the last years of World War II, Friedrich Hayek wrote The Road to Serfdom. He warned the allies that policy proposals which were being canvassed for the post-war world ran the risk of destroying the very freedom for which they were fighting. On the basis of 'as in war, so in peace', economists and others were arguing that the government should plan all economic activity. Such planning, Hayek argued, would be incompatible with liberty, and had been at the very heart of the movements that had established both communism and Nazism.
On its publication in 1944, the book caused a sensation. Neither its British nor its American publisher could keep up with demand, owing to wartime paper rationing. Then, in 1945, Reader's Digest published The Road to Serfdom as the condensed book in its April edition. For the first and still the only time, the condensed book was placed at the front of the magazine instead of the back. Hayek found himself a celebrity, addressing a mass market.
The condensed edition was republished for the first time by the IEA in 1999 and has been reissued to meet the continuing demand for its enduringly relevant and accessible message.

《共同的底线》的宗旨是从“主义”、“文化”与“部门”的分析中，结合我们特定的“问题”来论证持守底线的意义。
“共同的底线”并不是调和折中。虽然我并不反对调和折中，正如我既不反对自由主义也不反对社会民主主义一样。也许将来在自由主义与社会民主主义之争成为真问题时，我会持某种有原则合逻辑的折中态度，但是现在，我们需要持守底线。

NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER • From two winners of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, “who have demonstrated the importance of societal institutions for a country’s prosperity”

“A wildly ambitious work that hopscotches through history and around the world to answer the very big question of why some countries get rich and others don’t.”—The New York Times

FINALIST: Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The Washington Post, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Bloomberg, The Christian Science Monitor, The Plain Dealer

Why are some nations rich and others poor, divided by wealth and poverty, health and sickness, food and famine? Is it culture, the weather, or geography that determines prosperity or poverty? As Why Nations Failshows, none of these factors is either definitive or destiny.
 
Drawing on fifteen years of original research, Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson conclusively show that it is our man-made political and economic institutions that underlie economic success (or the lack of it). Korea, to take just one example, is a remarkably homogenous nation, yet the people of North Korea are among the poorest on earth while their brothers and sisters in South Korea are among the richest. The differences between the Koreas is due to the politics that created those two different institutional trajectories. Acemoglu and Robinson marshal extraordinary historical evidence from the Roman Empire, the Mayan city-states, the Soviet Union, the United States, and Africa to build a new theory of political economy with great relevance for the big questions of today, among them:
 
• Will China’s economy continue to grow at such a high speed and ultimately overwhelm the West?
 
• Are America’s best days behind it? Are we creating a vicious cycle that enriches and empowers a small minority?

“This book will change the way people think about the wealth and poverty of nations . . . as ambitious as Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel.”—BusinessWeek

The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state
Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama’s Origins of Political Order “magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition.” In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as “a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time.” And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed “this is a book that will be remembered. Bring on volume two.”
Volume two is finally here, completing the most important work of political thought in at least a generation. Taking up the essential question of how societies develop strong, impersonal, and accountable political institutions, Fukuyama follows the story from the French Revolution to the so-called Arab Spring and the deep dysfunctions of contemporary American politics. He examines the effects of corruption on governance, and why some societies have been successful at rooting it out. He explores the different legacies of colonialism in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, and offers a clear-eyed account of why some regions have thrived and developed more quickly than others. And he boldly reckons with the future of democracy in the face of a rising global middle class and entrenched political paralysis in the West.
A sweeping, masterful account of the struggle to create a well-functioning modern state, Political Order and Political Decay is destined to be a classic.

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•在《人人时代》中，克莱•舍基作为一个新文化的最敏锐的观察者，对人人时代的到来给予了明晰而富有穿透力的解析，并思考了我们是谁，我们可以做什么。
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一位妇女丢掉了手机，但征召了一群志愿者将其从盗窃者手中夺回。一个旅客在乘坐飞机时领受恶劣服务，她通过自己的博客发动了一场全民运动。在伦敦地铁爆炸案和印度洋海啸中，公民们用可拍照手机提供了比摄影记者更完备的记录。世界上最大的百科全书是由管理甚少的参与者们撰写的……
不论在何处，你都能看见人们走到一起彼此分享，共同工作，或是发起某种公共行动。一部集众人之力的百科全书、一个丢失手机的传奇，这些事情看上去似乎没有什么联系，但它们乃至更多事情的影响实际上有着共同的根基：在人类历史上第一次，我们的交流工具支持群体对话与群体行动。聚集一群人并使之行动原本对资源有极高的要求，使得全世界范围内的群体努力都被置于一种制度的垄断之下。今天，全球分享与合作的工具终于交到了个体公民的手中。
如同印刷机放大了个人的头脑，电话加强了双向沟通，一系列新工具如即时通信、移动电话、网络日志和维基百科也强化了群体交流。因为人类天生就擅长群体工作，所有能够强化群体努力的东西终会改变社会。商业模式以一种令人头晕目眩的速度被改变，更大的社会影响达到极为深刻的程度，以致我们无法认识。现在一个拥有笔记本电脑的人可以掀起一场颠覆10亿美元产业的运动。
在本书中，克雷·舍基，一个新文化的最敏锐的观察者，对此种社会革命的后果——无论是好是坏——给予了明晰而富有穿透力的解析，并思考了我们是谁，我们可以做什么。

《跳出我天地》里，比利·艾略特的工人父亲坚持认为男孩子应该学拳击，而不是跳芭蕾；《光猪六壮士》里，下岗的工人们告别钢筋水泥，在聚光灯下跳起脱衣舞却收到了意外的喜剧效果.....
啤酒、烟草、男性气概的业余爱好、幽默但粗野的对话.....是电影给我们展示的英国工人掠影。
而来自普林斯顿大学社会学系的保罗·威利斯教授采用田野调查的方法，通过展现一个工业城镇里12个出身工人阶级家庭的男孩从毕业前18个月到工作后半年这段时期内的学习生活经历，向我们解释了英国工人阶级的子弟为何选择继承父业——这就是《学做工》一书所呈现给我们的精彩内容。
2013年3月，《学做工》这本20世纪社会学、人类学和教育学的经典著作，终于由译林出版社推出中文版，威利斯先生也将首次和中国的读者见面。
本书是20世纪社会学、人类学和教育学的经典著作之一。第一部分是生动通俗的民族志的深度描写，第二部分是精辟透彻的理论分析，向我们解释了工人积极子弟之所以继承父业，不 仅是社会结构性因素再生产的结果，更是他们对学校主流文化做出反叛的一种反讽新文化生产的结果。中文本还收录了作者于2000年所做的访谈，以及专门为中国读者写的序言，有助于读者从一个比较历史的角度理解全球化背景下中国的青少年教育和失业问题。

《极端的年代》是本世纪最伟大的历史学家之一霍布斯鲍姆的新著。该书于1994年推出，两年间便再版12次，并被译成多种文字。
作者以其专业史家的精辟洞见，深入考察了本世纪从1914－1991年的历史：两次世界大战及无数局部战争给人类带来的苦难，40年“冷战”造成的不安，科技进步的利和弊，社会文化变革的长与短，资本主义发展的荣与衰，社会主义进程的得与失……

本书是反思及批判“公共知识分子”的社会学名著，也是研究当代思想史的重要参考资料。本书从观念、经济、社会、媒体、法律、战争等6个方面全面陈述了知识分子在社会发展中的舆论导向作用。一系列重大问题上的官方政策的形成都会受到知识分子所塑造的舆论氛围的影响。 当代知识分子不仅影响力胜过以前，而且发挥影响力的方式也大有不同。他们并不是通过塑造执政者的观点或引导执政者的行动来影响事件进程，而是通过影响民主社会中的执政者的行动的各种方式，来塑造公共舆论，最终影响事件进程。无论执政者是否接受知识分子的一般构想或者决策，知识分子的这种影响都会实现。《知识分子与社会》通过大量历史和现实的案例，深入、全面分析了知识分子导致社会变动的背景、诱因和巨大后果。

《通往奴役之路》（The Road to Serfdom）是诺贝尔经济学奖得主弗里德里克·哈耶克的最知名著作，这本书最先在1944年于英国由Routledge Press出版，接著在1944年9月由芝加哥大学出版。读者文摘在1945年4月也出版了稍微减缩的版本，最后总共销售超过600,000本。Look杂志在1950年左右出版了加上图片的版本，后来又被通用汽车公司以小册子形式大量发放。这本书被翻译成超过20种语言出版，哈耶克称要将这本书献给“所有党派的社会主义者”读一读。该书的第50周年纪念版本则由米尔顿·佛利民（另一名诺贝尔奖得主）撰写序言。《通往奴役之路》一书是对古典自由主义和自由意志主义理论的阐述中最著名、而又最受欢迎的书籍之一。

《为权利而斗争》主要内容：耶林一生的思想正如他的作品一样可以分成几个阶段：从历史法学派的捍卫者，到概念法学的追随者，再到利益法学的开拓者。耶林的法学作品中有三部特别引人注目：《罗马法的精神》、《为权利而斗争》和《法律目的论》，虽然它们并不一定称的上耶林最著名的作品，但却标志着耶林不同发展阶段的思想。

This book chronicles my six years of working towards a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Stanford University from 2006 to 2012. A diverse variety of people can benefit from reading it, including:
undergraduates who might be interested in pursuing a Ph.D.,
current Ph.D. students who are seeking guidance or inspiration,
professors who want to better understand Ph.D. students,
employers who hire and manage people with Ph.D. degrees,
professionals working in any creative or competitive field where self-driven initiative is crucial,
and educated adults (or precocious kids) who are curious about how academic research is produced.

What would happen to international politics if the dead rose from the grave and started to eat the living? Daniel Drezner's groundbreaking book answers the question that other international relations scholars have been too scared to ask. Addressing timely issues with analytical bite, Drezner looks at how well-known theories from international relations might be applied to a war with zombies. Exploring the plots of popular zombie films, songs, and books, "Theories of International Politics and Zombies" predicts realistic scenarios for the political stage in the face of a zombie threat and considers how valid - or how rotten - such scenarios might be. Drezner boldly lurches into the breach and 'stress tests' the ways that different approaches to world politics would explain policy responses to the living dead. He examines the most prominent international relations theories - including realism, liberalism, constructivism, neoconservatism, and bureaucratic politics - and decomposes their predictions. He digs into prominent zombie films and novels, such as Night of the Living Dead and World War Z, to see where essential theories hold up and where they would stumble and fall. Drezner argues that by thinking about outside-of-the-box threats we get a cognitive grip on what former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to as the 'unknown unknowns' in international security. Correcting the zombie gap in international relations thinking and addressing the genuine but publicly unacknowledged fear of the dead rising from the grave, "Theories of International Politics and Zombies" presents political tactics and strategies accessible enough for any zombie to digest.