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The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis -- The Longue Durée and World-Systems Analysis -- Contents -- Introduction: Fernand Braudel, the Longue Durée, and World-Systems Analysis -- The Order of Historical Time: The Longue Durée and Micro-History -- History and Geography: Braudel's "Extreme Longue Durée" as Generics? -- Dutch Capitalism and Europe's Great Frontier: The Baltic in the Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century -- The Semiproletarian Household over the Longue Durée of the Modern World-System -- In the Short Run Are We All Dead? A Political Ecology of the Development Climate -- The Longue Durée and the Status of "Superstructures" -- Nomads and Kings: State Formation in Asia over the Longue Durée, 1250-1700 -- Long-Term Problems for the Longue Durée in the Social Sciences -- Journalism, History, and Eurocentrism: Longue Durée and the Immediate in Braudel and Wallerstein -- Appendix: History and the Social Sciences: The Longue Durée -- Index

"Taking an innovative look at the origins of economics, this forward-thinking book relocates economics from a materialistic general theory of rational action into an idealistic theory of social organization and individual action. Adding new insightful analytical methods such as complexity theory, graph theory and computational modelling to the original insights of the Scottish Enlightenment, Richard Wagner explores economics in an ever-changing society, looking at the key civilizing processes and the important social questions. Rethinking Economics as Social Theory moves away from the traditional review of analytical exercises and associated data and illustrates an enlightening scheme of thought where human societies are heterogeneous and not homogeneous and where change is continually in motion. Furthermore, Wagner theorises that economizing is a universal form of human action that plays out in numerous substantive directions and shows cooperation and conflict to have a yin-and-yang relationship. This illuminating book will prove an excellent resource for economists interested in working outside of comparative statics as well as social scientists looking for a broader vision of economics. Philosophers and those working in the field of biological sciences will also find this an informative read"--

Innovative in its approach, Rethinking Public Choice reviews the concept of public choice since the 1950s post-war period and the application of economics to political practices and institutions, as well as its evolution in recent years attracting contributions from political science and philosophy.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. From Intermittence To Permanence -- 3. The FBI in Cold War and Social Turbulence -- 4. Other Domestic Intelligence Operations -- 5. Covert Techniques -- 6. Is Domestic Intelligence Unconstitutional? -- 7. The Dangers and the Needs: Weights in the Balance -- 8. Further Reform? -- Notes -- Index