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Forthcoming Asian Economics Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. An Economic History of Early Modern India

    By Tirthankar Roy

    The death of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 until the annexation of Maratha territories by the British East India Company in 1818 was a period of transition for the economy of India. This book focuses on these transitions, and shows how a study of this period of Indian history contributes to...

    To Be Published June 4th 2013 by Routledge

  2. The Economic Geography of the IT Industry in the Asia Pacific Region

    Edited by Philip Cooke, Glen Searle, Kevin O'Connor

    Series: Regions and Cities

    The development of the information technology (IT) industry in the Asia Pacific region faces two challenges. Firstly, can its established physical, technical, regional and governance infrastructures be adapted to meet the challenges embedded in the set of products and processes created by the IT...

    To Be Published June 11th 2013 by Routledge

  3. Governments and Markets in East Asia

    The Politics of Economic Crises

    By Jungug Choi

    Series: Routledge Malaysian Studies Series

    Governments and Markets in East Asia examines the relationship between economic performance, elite co-operation, and political regime stability in the context of the Asian crisis, and argues that economic crisis is not the cause of greater political harmony or discord, but rather that it...

    To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

  4. The Dynamics of Asian Financial Integration

    Facts and Analytics

    Edited by Michael Devereux, Philip Lane, Cyn-Young Park, Shang-Jin Wei

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    The ongoing global financial crisis has manifested a remarkable degree of global financial integration—and its implications—for emerging Asian financial markets. The current crisis will not and should not deter the progress that the region has made toward financial openness and integration. However...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Foreign Direct Investments in Asia

    Edited by Chalongphob Sussangkarn, Yung Chul Park, Sung Jin Kang

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    This book covers nine countries of ASEAN and the East Asian area, including major Asian countries, and compares their respective policies to attract Foreign Direct Investments (FDI). Through comparative study of FDI promotion policies, this book will give policy makers in the area of FDI promotion...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  6. Time Zones, Communications Networks, and International Trade

    By Toru Kikuchi

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    Advances in digital technology have driven large decreases in the costs of data transfer and telecommunications. There is a consequent increase in many kinds of international trade. One of the fastest-growing parts of this industry is "remote maintenance" whereby Indian companies debug software for...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  7. Multilateralism and Regionalism in Global Economic Governance

    Trade, Investment and Finance

    Edited by Junji Nakagawa

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    Reconciling regionalism and multilateralism is a challenge common to all branches of global economic governance. While the Bretton Woods/GATT (WTO) institutions, decades-old multilateral framework for global economic governance, are facing serious challenges to their effectiveness, regional...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  8. Enterprise Forms and Economic Efficiency

    Capitalist, Cooperative and Government Firms

    By Kazuhiko Mikami

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    The book conducts a comparative study on the form of enterprise, focusing on broadly defined cooperative firms in comparison with conventional capitalist firms. It explores the essential advantages and disadvantages of the different types of firms and attempts to answer why capitalist firms are so...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  9. Public Policy and the Public Interest

    By Lok-sang Ho

    As a book on public policy, this book is unique in addressing explicitly the role of human nature. Only with a good understanding of human nature can policy makers address their foremost needs and anticipate how people may respond to specific designs in policy. This way policy makers can avoid "...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge

  10. Singapore, the Energy Economy

    From The First Refinery To The End Of Cheap Oil, 1960-2010

    By Weng Hoong Ng

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    Singapore might not have survived the 1960s and prospered thereafter had it not built its economy on the foundations of oil refining, trading and support for oil and gas exploration and production. Cheap oil, sound policies and strong government combined to produce the Singapore economic miracle in...

    To Be Published June 29th 2013 by Routledge