General Economics
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Promoting Innovation, Productivity and Industrial Growth and Reducing Poverty
Development and the ending of mass poverty require a massive increase in productive capabilities and production in developing countries. Some countries, notably in Asia, are...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49559-2 (Routledge)
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Understanding FDI-Assisted Economic Development
It is nowadays well accepted that both economic growth and development are highly dependent on improving not just the availability of capital, but also access...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56837-1 (Routledge)
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The Politics of Economic Reform in Germany
Global, Rhineland or Hybrid Capitalism
This new volume situates current debates about economic reform in Germany in illuminating historical and structural contexts.
Showing how economic reform has become the central issue on...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56840-1 (Routledge)
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Environmental Economics, Experimental Methods
The experimental method is one commonly applied to issues of environmental economics; this book brings together 63 leading researchers in the area and their latest work...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77992-0 (Routledge)
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Game Theory and Policy Making in Natural Resources and the Environment
Game Theory has become one of the main analytical tools for addressing strategic issues in the field of economics and is increasing its influence in...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77993-7 (Routledge)
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Labour, Globalization and the State
Workers, Women and Migrants Confront Neoliberalism
This book explores the impact of neoliberal globalization on labour markets and the state in the developed and developing world. It focuses especially on the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55890-7 (Routledge)
Solving the Riddle of Globalization and Development
In the past two decades many developing countries have embraced the challenge of globalization by rushing to dismantle trade barriers and to promote increasingly liberal market-oriented policies....
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77032-3 (Routledge)
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Privatization in Malaysia
Regulation, Rent-Seeking and Policy Failure
In recent years, privatisation has fallen out of favour in many countries because the underlying political factors have not been well understood. This book examines...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54537-2 (Routledge)
China's Emergent Political Economy
Capitalism in the Dragon's Lair
This edited volume represents the first collaborative effort to explicitly view China’s rapid international ascent as associated with the same process that catapulted Great Britain,...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49718-3 (Routledge)
Technology and the Culture of Progress in Meiji Japan
In this book David Wittner situates Japan’s Meiji Era experience of technology transfer and industrial modernization within the realm of culture, politics, and symbolism, examining...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-56061-0 (Routledge)
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Economics, Ethics and the Market
Introduction and Applications
The primary aim of the text is to introduce the reader to the relationship between economics and ethics and to the application of economic ethics...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55828-0 (Routledge)
A Basket Currency for Asia
The failure of the dollar peg to prevent the Asian currency crisis of 1997 to 1998 has highlighted the importance of the exchange rate regime...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54701-7 (Routledge)
The Chinese Model of Modern Development
This study examines the Chinese model of modern development, reflecting on the historical experience of China's reform and highlighting theoretical issues that are crucial for...2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-55525-8 (Routledge)
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Economic and Social Transformation in China
Challenges and Opportunities
The Center for China Studies is among China’s most influential think-tanks, and its China Studies Reports are read at the highest levels of government. Now for...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54557-0 (Routledge)
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The Development of Capitalism in Russia
This book provides a broad and comprehensive survey of the development of capitalism in Russia from the collapse of the Soviet economic system to the...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54577-8 (Routledge)
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Globalization and the Chinese City
Introducing readers to the far-reaching global orientation that is now taking place in urban China, an international team of contributors describe overarching globalization through a detailed...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54590-7 (Routledge)
Women and Labour Organizing in Asia
Diversity, Autonomy and Activism
This book investigates the role of women and labour activism in Asia, demonstrating that women have been active in union and non union based campaigns...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54542-6 (Routledge)
Asian Informal Workers
Global Risks Local Protection
This thoroughly researched volume surveys the nature and extent of 'informal' work in Asia, which is a powerful and under-studied force in the region.
After over...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54549-5 (Routledge)
Game Theory in International Economics
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Multinationals, Technology and Localization in Automotive Firms in Asia
East Asia has led rapid economic growth in the last few decades with India joining them over the last five years. Automotive parts manufacturers have...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49558-5 (Routledge)
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Consuming Symbolic Goods
Identity and Commitment, Values and Economics
The phenomenon of consumption has increasingly drawn attention from economists. While the ‘sole purpose of production is consumption’, as Adam Smith has claimed, economists have...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49138-9 (Routledge)
Created in China
The Great New Leap Forward
This book examines China’s creative economy—and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture. Since the 1950s China...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49175-4 (Routledge)
Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction
Dealing with Fighters in the Aftermath of War
This book provides a critical analysis of the changing discourse and practice of post-conflict security-promoting interventions since the Cold War, such as disarmament, demobilization and reintegration...
2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-54440-5 (Routledge)
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Principles of Public Finance
'Dalton has succeeded in expressing general economic concepts in simple language' The Economist.The 1971 edition of this famous textbook includes recent material to...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48903-4 (Routledge)
Piero Sraffa: The Man and the Scholar
Exploring His Unpublished Papers
Previously published as special issues of The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought and The Review of Political Economy, this volume contains the...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-49151-8 (Routledge)
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The Economic Theory of Fiscal Policy
The book explores whether fiscal policies can secure full employment without inflation, one of the key questions in economics after Keynes.Part 1, General Theory...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48904-1 (Routledge)
Optimisation in Economic Analysis
One of the fundamental economic problems is one of making the best use of limited resources. As a result, mathematical optimisation methods play a crucial...2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48883-9 (Routledge)
Economics of Physiocracy
The birth of Physiocracy was the birth of the science of economics in the broad general form in which it is known to us today....2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48884-6 (Routledge)
Economic Analysis and Multinational Enterprise
With an impressive array of international contributors from the UK, USA, Sweden and Peru, this book includes chapters on the following:The nature of the...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48887-7 (Routledge)
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International Monetary Economics
Containing Fritz Machlup's papers on international finance spanning thirty years, this volume includes pieces translated into English for the first time. Focussing on the theme...2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48888-4 (Routledge)
The Economics of Repressed Inflation
'It provides the best complete discussion I know of the economics of repressed inflation' F.W. Paish.The Economics of Repressed Inflation is a micro-economic analysis...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48890-7 (Routledge)
The Role of Money
What it Should Be, Contrasted with What it Has Become
The Role of Money examines the mystery of money in its social aspect and illustrates what money now is, what is does and what it...2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48891-4 (Routledge)
Monetary Policy and the Development of Money Markets
This book traces the developments of the post-war monetary story, with an emphasis both on theory and practice. A survey of monetary policy and a...2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48892-1 (Routledge)
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Human Development and Social Power
Perspectives from South Asia
In South Asia and beyond, human development continues to be in a state of crisis. Each successive Human Development Report (HDR) and the pervasive global...
2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48131-1 (Routledge)
Understanding and Reducing Persistent Poverty in Africa
Prior work has shown that there is a significant amount of turnover amongst the African poor as households exit and enter poverty. Some of this...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46389-8 (Routledge)
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Learning, Natural Capital and Sustainable Development
Options for an Uncertain World
This special issue of the journal Environmental Education Research addresses a topical area of importance - human behaviour towards the environment. The book explores the...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46423-9 (Routledge)
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Understanding Poverty and Well-Being
Bridging the Disciplines
Written by a multi-disciplinary team of contributors, this collection explores the different dimensions of well being, poverty and inequality.
A person’s sense of well being...
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-46427-7 (Routledge)
Foundations of Entrepreneurship and Economic Development
This well-written book is the first to deal with entrepreneurship in all its aspects. It considers the economic, psychological, political, legal and cultural dimensions of...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45920-4 (Routledge)
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Finance and Competitiveness in Developing Countries
This volume represents a uniquely thorough investigation of trade and financial policy as it impacts upon Third World development. A broad range of international case...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45921-1 (Routledge)
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The Premodern Chinese Economy
Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility
Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), Gang Deng examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45864-1 (Routledge)
Islamic Insurance
A Modern Approach to Islamic Banking
Some Muslims believe insurance is unnecessary, as society should help its victims. Muslims can no longer ignore the fact that they live, trade and communicate...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44450-7 (Routledge)
Contributions to Social Ontology
Recent years have seen a dramatic re-emergence of interest in ontology. From philosophy and social sciences to artificial intelligence and computer science, ontology is gaining...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-44238-1 (Routledge)
Expectation, Enterprise and Profit
G.L.S. Shackle made numerous, pioneering contributions to the study of uncertainty in economic life. This volume studies the production process, where resources must be committed...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43650-2 (Routledge)
Twenty-Five Centuries of Technological Change
An Historical Survey
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43675-5 (Taylor & Francis)
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The Economics of Inflation
A Study of Currency Depreciation in Post-War Germany, 1914-1923
The Economics of Inflation provides a comprehensive analysis of economic conditions in Germany under the Great Inflation and discusses inflationary conditions in general. The analysis...2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43462-1 (Routledge)
Essays in the Theory of Economic Fluctuations
2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-43465-2 (Routledge)
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Normative Foundations of the Welfare State
The Nordic Experience
This is a sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system with urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe.Welfare programs and institutions...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42976-4 (Routledge)
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Solving the Riddle of Globalization and Development
In the past two decades many developing countries have embraced the challenge of globalization by rushing to dismantle trade barriers and to promote increasingly liberal market-oriented policies....
2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77031-6 (Routledge)
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Time and Money
The Macroeconomics of Capital Structure
Time and Money argues persuasively that the troubles which characterise modern capital-intensive economies, particularly the episodes of boom and bust, may best be analysed with...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77122-1 (Routledge)
Freedom and Growth
The Rise of States and Markets in Europe, 1300-1750
In discussions on European pre-modern economic growth, the role of individual freedom and of the state has loomed large. This book examines whether different kinds...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77115-3 (Routledge)
The Political Economy of Rule Evasion and Policy Reform
The Political Economy of Rule Evasion and Policy Reform develops the logic underlying the connections between breaking the rules and making the rules. Approaching policy...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77120-7 (Routledge)
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Financial Market Risk
Measurement and Analysis
This new book uses advanced signal processing technology to measure and analyze risk phenomena of the financial markets. It explains how to scientifically measure, analyze...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77113-9 (Routledge)
Calculation and Coordination
Essays on Socialism and Transitional Political Economy
This collection of essays from one of the major Austrian economists working in the world today brings together in one place some of his key...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77109-2 (Routledge)
Classical Macroeconomics
Some Modern Variations and Distortions
John Maynard Keynes failed to correctly interpret classic economic concepts, and dismissed the classical explanations and conclusions as being irrelevant to the world in which...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77110-8 (Routledge)
The Corporation
Growth, Diversification and Mergers
This book reviews the theory of the firm and the large modern corporation. Examining the process of entrepreneurial capitalism in which firms come into existence,...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77111-5 (Routledge)
Information Technology and Development
A New Paradigm for Delivering the Internet to Rural Areas in Developing Countries
Attempts to bring the benefits of information technology in the form of the internet to developing countries have, to date, foundered on the belief that...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40688-8 (Routledge)
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Social Capital and Economic Development
This immensely readable book by Patrick François provides an original insight into the increasingly fashionable topic that is social capital. In a unique, original study,...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40701-4 (Routledge)
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An Economic History of Sweden
This book represents the first recent attempt to provide a comprehensive treatment of Sweden's economic development since the middle of the 18th century. It...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40703-8 (Routledge)
What is Money?
This volume provocatively rethinks the economics, politics and sociology of money and examines the classic question of what is money. Starting from the two dominant...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40707-6 (Routledge)
Involuntary Unemployment
The Great Depression of the 1930s with its dramatic unemployment rates was one of the most striking economic events of the past century. It shook...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40710-6 (Routledge)
Classical Economics and Modern Theory
Studies in Long-Period Analysis
In this thought-provoking book, well known economists Kurz and Salvadori cover original findings and new vistas on old problems. They cover:
- alternative interpretations of classical economists
- new growth...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40637-6 (Routledge)
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Consumption Takes Time
Implications for Economic Theory
Standard economic theory of consumer behaviour considers consumers' preferences, their incomes and commodity prices to be the determinants of consumption. However, consumption takes time and...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40638-3 (Routledge)
Distributional Justice
Theory and Measurement
Introducing the main theories of distributional justice the book covers utilitarianism and welfare economics, moving on to Rawls's social contract and the Sen/Nussbaum capability approach...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40639-0 (Routledge)
The Tradition of Free Trade
In the nineteenth century Adam Smith and others gradually invented a 'tradition' of free trade. This was a towering achievement and has proved to be...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40641-3 (Routledge)
The Economics of Climate Change
This impressive new collection couldn't come at a better time. With global warming now becoming physically noticeable and the Kyoto treaty stalling in its efforts...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40642-0 (Routledge)
Endogenous Development
Networking, Innovation, Institutions and Cities
The beginning of the twenty first century has been characterized by the expansion of economics, politics and institutional relations. Using international case studies, this book...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40645-1 (Routledge)
The Enigma of Globalization
A Journey to a New Stage of Capitalism
Globalization is theorized in this book as an emerging new stage of capitalism. Robert Went takes us on a journey from the historical roots of...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40646-8 (Routledge)
The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism
The Fundamental Institutions of Capitalism presents a radical institutional approach to the analysis of capitalism. Ernesto Screpanti puts forward a number of provocative arguments that...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40650-5 (Routledge)
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Global Economic Institutions
This book critically examines global economic institutions. It presents an accessible fluid history of globalization and explains how global public goods should be defined and...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40681-9 (Routledge)
Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations
Performance, Institutions, Problems and Policies
This comprehensive collection documents the major processes, performance, institutions, problems and policies associated with global political economy. For the first time in a single volume,...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40683-3 (Routledge)
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History of Environmental Economic Thought
This volume presents the ideas of major figures in economics throughout history on key environmental issues such as population growth, resource scarcity and environmental contamination....2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40685-7 (Routledge)
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A History of Monetary Unions
In this comprehensive historical overview, the author writes about monetary unions with an admirable completeness and covers such themes as:*The Gold Standard
*Monetary Unions in Countries...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40686-4 (Routledge)
Marshall's Evolutionary Economics
Alfred Marshall was one of the most important economists ever to have lived. This excellent new book, from a Marshall expert respected the world over,...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40690-1 (Routledge)
The New Economy in Transatlantic Perspective
What's left of the New Economy? This book examines the remains of this well-hyped concept and finds that despite all the mistaken ideas and sexing-up,...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40692-5 (Routledge)
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The New Institutional Economics of Corruption
This book constitutes a thorough analysis of the phenomenon of corruption, as seen from the perspective of New Institutional Economics - one of the most...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40693-2 (Routledge)
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New International Poverty Reduction Strategies
The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) launched a joint initiative at the end of 1999, stating that they intended to set the...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40694-9 (Routledge)
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Political Economy of Public Finance in Britain, 1767-1873
The period between 1767 and 1873 shaped public finance in Britain (and, by extension, many other countries) as we know it today, with the major...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40696-3 (Routledge)
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Reduction, Rationality and Game Theory in Marxian Economics
This book examines the main areas of interest in Marxian economics, paying particular attention to class conflict, analytical Marxism and game theory. Very few books...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40697-0 (Routledge)
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The Revolutionary Russian Economy, 1890-1940
Ideas, Debates and Alternatives
The pre-revolutionary Russian economy was backward and stagnant. Whatever the criticisms of the economy post-revolution, the turnaround in terms of growth and output was staggering....
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40698-7 (Routledge)
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Japan's Foreign Aid
Old Continuities and New Directions
Filling a gap in the existing literature, this book analyzes the distinctive features of Japan’s development aid, especially technical co-operation, in comparison with other donors’...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40613-0 (Routledge)
China Along the Yellow River
Reflections on Rural Society
This text had a major impact in its original Chinese version. Reviewed in the Far East Economic Review as 'one of the richest portraits of...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40614-7 (Routledge)
Alternatives for Environmental Valuation
Environmental cost-benefit analysis was developed by economists in the belief that monetary valuation of the environmental repercussions of economic activity is essential if the "environment...
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The IMF and the Future
The International Monetary Fund has been criticised from both the right and the left of the political spectrum with the right arguing that it is...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40687-1 (Routledge)
Hayek and After
Hayekian Liberalism as a Research Programme
This book offers a distinctive treatment of Hayek's ideas, as a "research programme". It presents a detailed account of aspects of Hayek's intellectual development and...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40684-0 (Routledge)
A "Second Edition" of The General Theory
Volume 1
Keynes always intended to write 'footnotes' to his masterwork The General Theory, which would take account of the criticisms made of it and allow him...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40699-4 (Routledge)
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A "Second Edition" of The General Theory
Volume 2 Overview, Extensions, Method and New Developments
This second volume contains essays which relate to developments in Keynes' scholarship and theorizing in the years since his death and demonstrates the ongoing validity...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40700-7 (Routledge)
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The Pattern of Aid Giving
The Impact of Good Governance on Development Assistance
Practically all donor countries that give aid claim to do so on the basis on the recipient's good governance, but do these claims have a...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40695-6 (Routledge)
Entrepreneurship
A New Perspective
The entrepreneur has been neglected over the years in formal economic theorizing. Previously there has been only eclectic theories such as human capital theory and...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40647-5 (Routledge)
Evolutionary Economics and Creative Destruction
The central theme of this book is competition treated as an evolutionary process in which the focus is upon economic change and not economic equilibrium....2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40648-2 (Routledge)
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The Economics of Innovation, New Technologies and Structural Change
The ongoing process of revising and rethinking the foundations of economic theory leads to great complexities and contradictions at the heart of economics. ‘Economics of...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40643-7 (Routledge)
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Economies of Network Industries
Hans Göttinger examines different types of network industries such as railways, telecommunications and new media, and the economics thereof. An accent on history is something...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40644-4 (Routledge)
An Economic History of London 1800-1914
In 1800 London was already the largest city in the world, and over the course of the next century its population grew rapidly, reaching over...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40640-6 (Routledge)
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Energy, Wealth and Governance in the Caucasus and Central Asia
Lessons not learned
Drawing upon recent progress in development economics and political science, the book provides fresh analysis of the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) countries transition to...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40577-5 (Routledge)
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Exchange Rate Regimes in East Asia
There is a deepening debate in East Asia about the prospects for common exchange rate arrangements, even including the formation of a common currency in...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40589-8 (Routledge)
Labour in Southeast Asia
Local Processes in a Globalised World
In seeking to provoke debate, the book reveals the variety of experiences evident in countries and regions marked by capitalist and (post) socialist regulatory frameworks,...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40599-7 (Routledge)
The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post-Dayton Bosnia
A fresh examination of the political economy of the peacebuilding process in Bosnia-Herzegovina in the aftermath of the country's 1992-95 war.Little progress has been made in transforming...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40792-2 (Routledge)
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Understanding Pensions
With birth rates falling at the same time that average age is rising in the developed world, the pensions time bomb is ticking louder than...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40705-2 (Routledge)
Unpaid Work and the Economy
A Gender Analysis of the Standards of Living
In economics, the voluntary sector is surprisingly understudied. In order to fully understand economics, unpaid and voluntary work needs to be taken into account and...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40706-9 (Routledge)
Towards a Competence Theory of the Firm
This book explores a new theory of the firm produced through an exchange between management theory and economics. In the process economics is seen to...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40702-1 (Routledge)
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Keynes and Hayek
The Money Economy
John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich Hayek had serious differences of opinion when it came to assessing the fractured inter-war world. G. R. Steele picks apart...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40689-5 (Routledge)
The Driving Force of the Market
Essays in Austrian Economics
This book offers a unique insight into the character of Austrian economics. This work also collects the recent work of the leading authorities in this...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77112-2 (Routledge)
Foundations of Economic Method
A Popperian Perspective, 2nd Edition
Many consider Foundations of Economic Method to be Lawrence Boland's best work. This updated edition is radically changed from the original and will be much...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77114-6 (Routledge)
Affirmative Action in the United States and India
A Comparative Perspective
Arguably, two of the most important national experiences with policies of positive discrimination in favor of historically disadvantaged ethnic or caste minority groups are the...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77107-8 (Routledge)
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An Entrepreneurial Theory of the Firm
This original, provocative work makes a thorough and comprehensive enquiry into the relationship that exists between firms and markets, with separate, in-depth examinations of both...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77108-5 (Routledge)
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Schumpeter and the Endogeneity of Technology
Some American Perspectives
Schumpeter's profoundly influential work developed the notion of the endogeneity of technology, and offered illuminating historical analyses of how and why some social systems have...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77121-4 (Routledge)
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Land Rights, Ethno-nationality and Sovereignty in History
The complex relationships between ethno-nationality, rights to land, and territorial sovereignty have long fed disputes over territorial control and landed rights between different nations, ethnicities,...
2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77119-1 (Routledge)
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Development and Democracy
What Have We Learned and How?
Development and Democracy confirms the robust relationship between levels of economic development and democracy, but suggests that globalization is a key variable in determining the...2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40671-0 (Routledge)
The Egyptian Economy, 1952-2000
Performance Policies and Issues
Interviews with former Prime Ministers and Cabinet Ministers along with previously unpublished analysis by the World Bank, IMF and USAID provide entertaining and interesting insights...
2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-48995-9 (Routledge)
Thailand Beyond the Crisis
Thailand Beyond the Crisis includes recent research to give an accurate and up to date picture of the status of Thailand's economic recovery. The Asian...2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40595-9 (Routledge)
Financial Governance in East Asia
Policy Dialogue, Surveillance and Cooperation
The focus of international financial reform in recent years has largely been at the global level, in terms of improving the international financial architecture, and...2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-40590-4 (Routledge)
Industrialization and Globalization
Theory and Evidence from Developing Countries
In a refreshingly accessible style John Weiss presents a survey of industrialization in developing countries since 1945, as well as a study of the predominant...2002 | Paperback: 978-0-415-45863-4 (Routledge)
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