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11. Principles of Agricultural Economics

    By Andrew Barkley, Paul W. Barkley

    This book showcases the power of economic principles to explain and predict issues and current events in the food, agricultural, agribusiness, international trade, natural resources and other sectors. The result is an agricultural economics textbook that provides students and instructors with a...

    Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
12. Social Fairness and Economics

    Economic Essays in the Spirit of Duncan Foley

    Edited by Lance Taylor, Armon Rezai, Thomas Michl

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This volume brings together papers inspired by the work of Duncan Foley, an extraordinarily productive economist who has made seminal contributions to a wide variety of areas. Foley’s work cannot be easily classified, but one thread that runs through it is a critical examination (along both ethical...

    Published February 20th 2013 by Routledge
13. Migration and Inequality

    Edited by Tanja Bastia

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    The ‘migration-development’ nexus has emerged as an important area of both research and policy over the last ten years. However, most of the interest has focused on the potential that migration holds for poverty alleviation. Relatively little attention has been paid to the relationship between...

    Published February 10th 2013 by Routledge
14. Financial Crisis, Labour Markets and Institutions

    Edited by Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book seeks to explain the global financial crisis and its wider economic, political, and social repercussions, arguing that the 2007-9 meltdown was in fact a systemic crisis of the capitalist system. The volume makes these points through the exploration of several key questions: What kind...

    Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
15. Inheritance and Wealth Inequality in Britain (Routledge Revivals)

    By Colin Harbury, David Hitchins

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Modern Britain is characterised by marked inequalities in the distribution of wealth, which continue to fuel controversy and arouse strong, if adverse, feelings. Originally published in 1979, Inheritance and Wealth Inequality in Britain provides detailed evidence on the relative importance of...

    Published January 13th 2013 by Routledge
16. Digital Interactions in Developing Countries

    An Economic Perspective

    By Jeffrey James

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    Jeffrey James is one of the relatively few academics to have systematically taken on the topic of IT and development. In this timely book he undertakes a methodological critique of prominent topics in the debate. Challenging the existing literature by international and governmental institutions,...

    Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
17. Microeconomic Theory second edition

    Concepts and Connections

    By Michael Wetzstein

    This book introduces the main concepts of microeconomics to upper division undergraduate students or first year graduate students who have undergone at least one elementary calculus course. The book fully integrates graphical and mathematical concepts and offers over 150 analytical examples...

    Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
18. Aging and Economic Growth in the Pacific Region

    Edited by Akira Kohsaka

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    The Pacific region is in the final stage of the demographic transition with declining fertility and expanding life expectancy, where significant changes in population size and age distribution, i.e. "aging" have been and will be witnessed. They are unprecedented and going to affect economic growth...

    Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
19. Producing Prosperity

    An Inquiry into the Operation of the Market Process

    By Randall Holcombe

    Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

    The substantial prosperity that characterizes market economies at the beginning of the twenty-first century is relatively recent in human history. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, economic progress was so slow that people would not have been able to recognize it in their lifetimes, whereas today...

    Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
20. Unintended Outcomes of Social Movements

    The 1989 Chinese Student Movement

    By Fang Deng

    Series: International Library of Sociology

    Why did the 1989 Chinese student movement end in violent confrontation at Tiananmen Square, despite the fact that both the Chinese government and the students very much wanted to avoid violence? This puzzle, which lies at the heart of the tragic events at Tiananmen, is addressed here from a fresh...

    Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge