Nobel Laureate Edmund Phelps argues that the high level of innovation in the West was not a result of scientific discoveries plus entrepreneurship. Rather, modern values-particularly the individualism and self-expression prevailing among the people-fueled the dynamism needed for widespread innovation.

Volume VIII of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the so-called sophists Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicus, Thrasymachus, and Hippias, along with testimonia relating to the life, views, and argumentative style of Socrates.

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang probes their political, economic, and sociocultural trajectories, including engagement in espionage, military operations, and underground trade.

Grounded in extensive fieldwork and archival research, Echoes from the Sino-Burmese Borderlands explores the clandestine travel of primarily Yunnanese Chinese migrants during the Cold War. Wen-Chin Chang probes their political, economic, and sociocultural trajectories, including engagement in espionage, military operations, and underground trade.

Giovanni Gioviano Pontano was one of the great scholar-poets of the Renaissance as well as a leading statesman. Eclogues and Garden of the Hesperides, both broadly inspired by Virgil, might be considered Pontano's love songs to the landscapes of Naples. This volume features the first published translations of both works into English.

Exchange of goods and ideas among nations, cross-border pollution, global warming, and international crime pose formidable questions for international law. Two respected scholars provide an intellectual framework for assessing these problems from a rational choice perspective and describe conditions under which international law succeeds or fails.

Eli Black was the immigrant rabbi-turned-CEO who transformed the notoriously corrupt United Fruit into a model of ethical business. Then he died by suicide. How did it all go wrong? Matt Garcia traces Black's own descent into corruption and despair-the unraveling, and the deliberate forgetting, of one of America's most enigmatic business leaders.

Richard Ellmann’s James Joyce, published in 1959, has been called “the greatest literary biography of the twentieth century.” Ellmann’s Joyce provides the biography of the biography—an eye-opening account of how Ellmann’s book came to be, the intrigue surrounding it, and its enduring impact on the study and making of literary lives.

In Michael Sandel the Chinese have found a guide through the ethical dilemmas created by their swift embrace of a market economy-one whose communitarian ideas resonate with China's own rich, ancient philosophical traditions. This volume explores the connections and tensions revealed in this unlikely episode of Chinese engagement with the West.

Nancy Hill and Alexis Redding contest the accusation that today's young people are coddled and immature. Unearthing studies of college students five decades ago, the authors show that the behaviors now decried as markers of stalled development have long been typical of adolescents. Hill and Redding's advice for adults? Judge less, nurture more.