Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. Governing the World?

   Cases in Global Governance

   Edited by Sophie Harman, David Williams

   ‘Global governance’ has become a key concept in the contemporary study of international politics, yet what the term means and how it works remains in question. Governing the World: Cases in Global Governance takes an alternative approach to understanding the concept by exploring how global...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Microtrade

   A New System of International Trade with Volunteerism Towards Poverty Elimination

   Edited by Yong-Shik Lee

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   With contributions from well-regarded scholars of international economic law, this book sets out the case for an innovative solution to extreme poverty which utilizes international trade and its legal framework to relieve populations of the poorest countries around the world of extreme poverty. "...

   Published May 23rd 2013 by Routledge
3. Ricardo on Money and Finance

   A Bicentenary Reappraisal

   Edited by Yuji Sato, Susumu Takenaga

   David Ricardo, one of the major figures in the history of economic thought, particularly in the English classical political economy, deployed his activities as economist just two hundreds of years ago. Since then his economics has been generally estimated as the culminating point of the classical...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
4. Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations

   Knowledge and Power in Latin America

   Edited by Mercedes Botto

   Series: Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

   The international trade negotiations that were launched throughout Latin America in the 1990s created significant challenges for developing countries because of their complexity. In order to make informed decisions and successfully legitimize negotiating positions, governments and stakeholders...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
5. WTO/GATS and the Global Politics of Higher Education

   By Antoni Verger

   Series: Studies in Higher Education

   Since the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) was created in 1995, there has been international pressure towards the liberalization of education all over the world, as well as new challenges to the traditional internationalization rationale in the field of higher education. Nevertheless,...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
6. Marx and Living Labour

   By Laurent Baronian

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities. Political economy on the contrary considers the labour...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
7. Non-Mainstream Dimensions of Global Political Economy

   Essays in Honour of Sunanda Sen

   Edited by Byasdeb Dasgupta

   The book is a collection of essays written by scholars of global repute in honour of Professor Sunanda Sen. Each paper is well-researched and offers a new dimension to the understanding of the current global crisis, finance and labour including the epistemological viewpoints regarding the current...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
8. Social Innovation

   New Forms of Organisation in Knowledge–Based Societies

   Edited by Carmen Ruiz Viñals, Carmen Parra Rodríguez

   Series: Routledge/Lisbon Civic Forum Studies in Innovation

   'Social innovation’ can be simply defined as the new ideas and initiatives that make it possible to meet our society’s challenges in areas such as the environment, education, employment, culture, health and economic development. It is currently becoming increasingly important as a central concept...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
9. Working Regions

   Reconnecting Innovation and Production in the Knowledge Economy

   By Jennifer Clark

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples of four ‘working regions’ — regions where research and design functions and manufacturing still coexist in the same cities — the book argues for a new...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
10. International Trade Unionism (Routledge Revivals)

    By Charles Levinson

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations. His earlier work, Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals, 2013)...

    Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge