Along with the fast growing economy, the term 'BRICs' was coined to represent the newly emerging countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China. The enhanced economy in these countries has largely improved people's lives; at the same time, it has also strongly influenced the transformation of...

Part I: Framworks -- PPE as an intellectual enterprise / Geoffrey Brennan and Geoffrey Sayre-McCord -- On models and their uses / James Johnson -- Complexity / Fred D'Agosino -- PPE in Marx's materialist conception of history / Vanessa Wills -- Feminist theory / Ann E. Cudd -- Part II:...