《热带非洲的市场与国家:农业政策的政治基础》内容简介：贝茨从非洲的农产品产量及出品量下降这一现象出发，探寻这一现象的政治根源及领导者采取对其政治的社会有害的政策的原因。他从以下三个方面研究政府对市场的干预：家产品、农业投入及农民从城市购买的商品。

Why do countries differ so greatly in their patterns of political cleavage and coalition? Extending some basic findings of economic theories of international trade, Ronald Rogowski suggests a startling new answer. Testing his hypothesis chiefly against the evidence of the last century and a half, but extending it also to the ancient world and the sixteenth century, he finds a surprising degree of confirmation and some intriguing exceptions.

在市场经济条件下，国家与经济的关系问题变得十分重要，本书以比较与历史分析的角度，阐述了世界各国现代化建设过程中，国家与现代经济发展的关系，以丰富的案例，精辟的分析，使我们对这个问题有深入的了解，引导我们对这个问题进行深入的思考，对我国的现代化建设也具有很重要的借鉴意义。

The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern Europe and Latin America have failed with the result that entire economic systems on both continents are being transformed. This major book analyzes recent transitions to democracy and market-oriented economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Drawing in a quite distinctive way on models derived from political philosophy, economics, and game theory, Professor Przeworski also considers specific data on individual countries. Among the questions raised by the book are: What should we expect from these experiments in democracy and market economy? What new economic systems will emerge? Will these transitions result in new democracies or old dictatorships?

In recent years, debate on the state's economic role has too often devolved into diatribes against intervention. Peter Evans questions such simplistic views, offering a new vision of why state involvement works in some cases and produces disasters in others. To illustrate, he looks at how state agencies, local entrepreneurs, and transnational corporations shaped the emergence of computer industries in Brazil, India, and Korea during the seventies and eighties. Evans starts with the idea that states vary in the way they are organized and tied to society. In some nations, like Zaire, the state is predatory, ruthlessly extracting and providing nothing of value in return. In others, like Korea, it is developmental, promoting industrial transformation. In still others, like Brazil and India, it is in between, sometimes helping, sometimes hindering. Evans's years of comparative research on the successes and failures of state involvement in the process of industrialization have here been crafted into a persuasive and entertaining work, which demonstrates that successful state action requires an understanding of its own limits, a realistic relationship to the global economy, and the combination of coherent internal organization and close links to society that Evans called "embedded autonomy."

《比较政治经济学》对比较政治经济学的介绍紧扣住国家、社会和经济的关系，在分析层次上兼顾国际层面，在分析视角上认真对待国家和社会组织的微观基础以及历史制度的影响。《比较政治经济学》由三个主要部分组成：历史部分介绍现代国际政治、经济体系的形成与演变，并深入体系内部探讨国家的生存与发展；范式部分从国家与社会、个体与组织、社会联盟以及制度等不同分析视角解读国家、社会和经济的关系；专题部分则具体探讨国家、社会和经济在发达国家、发展中国家和转型国家的互动。