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31. The Coal Question (Routledge Revivals)

    Political Economy and Industrial Change from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day

    By Ben Fine

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    The coal industry has always occupied a symbolic place in British economic and political life, inspiring debates and arousing passions throughout the last two centuries. This account of the economics of coal, first published in 1990, is unique in its comprehensive three-part approach. First, Ben...

    Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
32. The Future of the Soviet Economic Planning System (Routledge Revivals)

    By David A. Dyker

    On its publication in 1985, this book offered a fresh analysis of the problems faced by the Soviet economy by focussing on the key issues in the economic planning system. David Dyker considers the available options for reform during the 1980s and the most likely developments. Discussing the...

    Published March 31st 2013 by Routledge
33. The Geographical Transformation of China

    Edited by Michael Dunford, Liu Weidong

    Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

    This book presents an account and interpretation of the transformation of the geography of China in the years since the start of China’s policy of reform and opening up as seen through the eyes of Chinese geographers. Each chapter illustrates the ways in which the particular...

    Published March 29th 2013 by Routledge
34. The Political Economy of the Conflict Trade

    Contextualising Illicit Miners and Informal Traders

    By Morten Boas

    Series: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

    The economies of conflict play a crucial part in motivating and sustaining the illicit extraction and trade of diamonds, coltan, gold and other natural resources from conflict zones in Sub-Saharan Africa. This book focuses on the political economy of life and death for ordinary people in extreme...

    Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
35. Industrialization of China and India

    Their Impacts on the World Economy

    Edited by Nobuharu Yokokawa, Jayati Ghosh, Bob Rowthorn

    This book provides new perspectives on recent Asian dynamism which go beyond the mainstream views, by attempting to situate the recent economic expansion within a broader analysis of capitalist accumulation and the various processes that it generates both within and across economies. The...

    Published March 27th 2013 by Routledge
36. Beyond Liquidity

    The Metaphor of Money in Financial Crisis

    Edited by Brad Pasanek, Simone Polillo

    ‘Liquidity’, or rather lack of it, lies at the heart of the ongoing global financial crisis. In this collection of essays, the metaphor of money as liquidity, and the model of crisis it entails, is deliberated by a range of scholars from economics, history, anthropology, literature, and sociology....

    Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
37. The Futures of the City Region

    Edited by Michael Neuman, Angela Hull

    Series: Regions and Cities

    Does the ‘city region’ constitute a new departure in urbanisation? If so, what are the key elements of that departure? The realities of the urban in the 21st century are increasingly complex and polychromatic. The rise of global networks enabled by supranational administrations, both governmental...

    Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
38. Disasters and the Networked Economy

    By J.M. Albala-Bertrand

    Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

    Mainstream quantitative analysis and simulations are fraught with difficulties and are intrinsically unable to deal appropriately with long-term macroeconomic effects of disasters. In this new book, J.M. Albala-Bertrand develops the themes introduced in his past book, The Political Economy of Large...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
39. The Political Economy of Reform Failure

    Edited by Mats Lundahl

    Economists have moved in recent years beyond analyzing the manner in which the macroeconomies of different countries function and prescribing appropriate policies for dealing with domestic and external imbalances. Increasingly, they have sought to understand the complex interaction between...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
40. Social Costs and Public Action in Modern Capitalism

    Essays Inspired by Karl William Kapp's Theory of Social Costs

    By Wolfram Elsner, Pietro Frigato, Paolo Ramazzotti

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    The Social Costs approach to the globalised capitalist market economy has gained new relevance in recent years. The present situation is one of widespread and increasing deterioration of the social, cultural, democratic, and environmental frameworks of advanced capitalist market societies. This...

    Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge