Microeconomics or Global Transformations

Microeconomics: Principles, Problems, and Policies/DiscoverEcon with Paul Solman Videos (DVD/CD-ROM)

Author: Campbell R McConnell

The proven and popular Microeconomics has been made even tighter and smoother for its 16th edition. A DVD features bestselling DiscoverEcon software and two videos with Paul Solman of PBS. New topics include the economics of the war on terrorism, China's rapidly emerging economy, recent accounting misconduct, and more. Two bonus chapters available on the Web provide additional, specialized information.

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Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World

Author: Michel Rolph Trouillot

"Michel-Rolph Trouillot gives us a splendid statement of new possibilities for anthropology. He leads anthropologists away from the 'savage slot' with which the discipline perforce began and toward a rejuvenated moral optimism that will critically engage with the West and the emerging global order. Trouillot's brilliance takes us beyond both a superficial denunciation of Western domination and a knee-jerk political correctness."--Richard G. Fox, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research"As in much of his previous writing, Trouillot enlightens us here by broadening the context for understanding large-scale processes, such as globalization and the functioning of the world system. By insisting that we test each word in our code--including such terms as 'the West'--against those realities which it may obscure or conceal, he helps to bring the darkened half of the world into brighter light. In this broadening of the field of play, the author makes an eloquent plea for more history--one might even say for more serious history. But his book is also a plea for more serious fieldwork, based on a methodology that is distinctively (though not uniquely) anthropological. In its own way, then, this book is a gauntlet thrown down to challenge familiar ways of knowing. Its innovativeness rests partly upon urging us to do what we had been doing before--but to do it more thoroughly, more honestly. Trouillot's gift for sketching an emergent synthesis, which draws repeatedly on the asking of harder questions, comes through. Above all, he makes us think."--Sidney W. Mintz

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Ch. 1	Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness	7
Ch. 2	North Atlantic Fictions: Global Transformations, 1492-1945	29
Ch. 3	A Fragmented Globality	47
Ch. 4	The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close Encounters of the Deceptive Kind	79
Ch. 5	Adieu, Culture: A New Duty Arises	97
Ch. 6	Making Sense: The Fields in which We Work	117
	Notes	141
	Bibliography	157
	Index	173