repetition of history. In The Prosperity of Vice, the influential French economist Daniel Cohen shows that violence, rather than … nations? Cohen guides us through history, describing the European discovery of the “philosopher’s stone”: the possibility of … perpetual growth. But the consequences of addiction to growth are dire in an era of globalization. If a billion Chinese consume …

identify “structural breaks”--privatization, for example, or globalization--and assess why powerful actors across countries …

worlds of literature, history, and philosophy. And yet, as Steven Brams shows, game theory can illuminate the rational … in law, history, and philosophy. Brams's strategic exegesis of texts helps the reader relate characters' goals to their …

’s future, Islamic terrorism, economic growth, geopolitics and globalization, and democracy. Lee does not pull his punches …

-- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the … scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in …

J. D. Bernal's monumental work Science in History is the first full-scale attempt to analyze the relationship between … science and society throughout history, from the perfection of the first flint hand ax to the construction of the hydrogen … social sciences and provides an avowedly Marxist outline of their history and of the social and political tendencies of our …

effective administration of an expanding business. The author summarizes the history of the expansion of the nation's largest …

-- pioneers a new approach to the comparative analysis of societies in the past. Using techniques of event history analysis, the … scholars in economics, environmental studies, demography, history, and sociology as well as the general reader interested in … these subjects. Eurasian Population and Family History series …

Conference of 2009. Topics covered include the environmental implications of globalization; wealth, poverty, and consumption …