How do social structures and group behaviors arise from the interaction of individuals? Growing Artificial Societiesapproaches this question with cutting-edge computer ...

Since its publication in 1977 Social Limits to Growth has established itself as a classic in economic and social philosophy. Its analysis of the shortcomings of economic growth ...

Public choice, an important subdiscipline in the field of political theory, seeks to understand how people and societies make decisions affecting their collective lives ...

Liberalism is often described as a theory about the proper relationship between the individual and the state. But liberalism also contains a broader account of the relationship ...

Western culture is based on exclusion. Its society places 'others' - women, blacks, children, the old, those with alternative lifestyles, gays, the disabled - as outsiders. At ...

Impressively broad, expanded edition of an established, highly recommended textbook.

A conceptual and analytical framework for understanding economic institutions and institutional change.