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1. Large Databases in Economic History

   Research Methods and Case Studies

   Edited by Mark Casson, Nigar Hashimzade

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   ‘Big data’ is now readily available to economic historians, thanks to the digitisation of primary sources, collaborative research linking different data sets, and the publication of databases on the internet. Key economic indicators, such as the consumer price index, can be tracked over long...

   To Be Published November 16th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Growth of International Business (RLE International Business)

   Edited by MARK CASSON

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: International Business

   This book integrates the work of economists, management scientists and business historians. It applies the related concepts of transaction costs, internalisation, corporate strategy and market structure to explain the historical process of corporate growth in the international economy. Each chapter...

   Published November 26th 2012 by Routledge
3. Multinationals and World Trade

   Vertical Integration and the Division of Labour in World Industries

   By Mark Casson

   First published in 1986, this work reports the results of the Leverhulme project on mulitnationals and intermediate product trade based at the University of Reading during the academic year 1982/3. Chapter 1 summarises the main results of this project. Part I focusses upon the...

   Published June 6th 2012 by Routledge
4. Hegemony of International Business 1945-1970

   Edited by Mark Casson

   This set is the last of three sets of reprinted books charting the emergence, evolution and recent hegemony of international business. Each set of reprints has a separate introduction by the series editor. The first set, The Emergence of International Business 1200-1800, describes the changing...

   Published October 25th 2000 by Routledge
5. Hegemony of International Business 1945-1970 (POD)

   Edited by Mark Casson

   This set is the last of three sets of reprinted books charting the emergence, evolution and recent hegemony of international business. Each set of reprints has a separate introduction by the series editor. The first set, The Emergence of International Business 1200-1800, describes the changing...

   Published October 25th 2000 by Routledge
6. Evolution of International Business

   1800-1945

   Edited by Mark Casson

   Virtually all modern business has an international component. However the rise of international business is not a uniquely modern phenomenon, it is something that has gathered momentum over many centuries. The great trade fairs of medieval Europe were catalysts for economic growth and they...

   Published January 26th 2000 by Routledge
7. Emergence of International Business 1200-1800

   Edited by Mark Casson

   This set explores such issues as the development of credit and banking, the impetus to world trade given by colonial expansion and the role of the great trading companies, including the East India Company....

   Published June 30th 1999 by Routledge
8. International Competitiveness

   Productivity and Technological Progress

   Edited by Mark Casson

   The twentieth century has seen dramatic increases in the scale and intensity of international competition, focusing on the critical issues of technological change and productivity.By the end of the nineteenth century the UK had clearly lost its economic leadership to the United States, Germany and...

   Published December 9th 1998 by Routledge
9. The Railway Revolution

   Edited by Mark Casson

   This impressive collection of turn of the century material reveals the pivotal role of the railway in the Industrial Revolution, and provides a historical background to the modern debate of privatisation. On a broader scale, the material:* demonstrates the problems of transport co-ordination,...

   Published February 11th 1998 by Routledge
10. Institutions and the Evolution of Modern Business

    Edited by Mark Casson, Mary B. Rose

    The papers in this volume demonstrate that it can be fruitful to apply institutional theory to business history. In addition, the volume shows that the wider study of the institutional environment is inseparable from the study of business. It is clear, however, that although 'institutionalism' in...

    Published December 31st 1997 by Routledge