Finance Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. The Risk in Risk Management

   Financial Organizations & the Problem of Conformity

   By Gregory B Vit

   Banks take very large risks by consistently herding in the same perilous directions while believing they are safe and unique. This book presents a risk management framework to understand conformity and deviance within investment banks and other large organizations. It suggests that some groups...

   Published May 12th 2013 by Routledge
3. The Making of Modern Finance

   Liberal Governance and the Gold Standard

   By Samuel Knafo

   Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

   The Making of Modern Finance is a path-breaking study of the construction of liberal financial governance and demonstrates how complex forms of control by the state profoundly transformed the nature of modern finance. Challenging dominant theoretical conceptions of liberal financial governance in...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Means to Prosperity

   Fiscal Policy Reconsidered

   Edited by Per Gunnar Berglund, Matias Vernengo

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   While recent developments in monetary theory have been fast to spread to policy analysis and practice and the media, the same is not true of fiscal policy, and a void has emerged. Issues such as timing, cyclical adjustments, long-term sustainability, and social implications are often seen as...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
5. Financial Services Marketing

   An International Guide to Principles and Practice, 2nd Edition

   By Christine Ennew, Nigel Waite

   This new edition balances the theoretical and the practical for advanced undergraduates, those specialising in financial services at postgraduate level, individuals undertaking professional courses such as those offered by the IFS School of Finance, and employees working within the financial...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
6. Exchange Rates and Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Asia

   Selected Issues and Policy Options

   By Ramkishen Rajan

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   With the rapid growth of China and India and the resurgence of Southeast Asia post-1997–8, emerging Asia has once again become one of the most dynamic regions in the world. This dynamism has in turn been fuelled largely by a carefully calibrated embracement of economic openness to international...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Human Rights, Natural Resource and Investment Law in a Globalised World

   Shades of Grey in the Shadow of the Law

   By Lorenzo Cotula

   Series: Routledge Research in International Economic Law

   In the world’s developing countries, foreign investment in natural resources brings into contact competing interests that are often characterised by unequal balances of negotiating power – from multinational corporations and host governments, through to the local people affected by the influx of...

   Published May 4th 2013 by Routledge
8. Booms, Bubbles and Busts in US Stock Markets

   By David L. Western

   In the US stock market things have changed a great deal since the heady days of the 1980s and we are now entering an era of profound uncertainty, with most analysts predicting trouble ahead. Indeed, the alarming decline of the NASDAQ shows no sign of abating and the fear is that traditional...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge
9. Learning Transnational Learning

   Edited by Åge Mariussen, Seija Virkkala

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   Systems of innovation that are conducted within national borders can preserve inefficient solutions and prevent development. This has led to a feeling that transnational learning strategies are more and more desirable. In practice, the field of transnational learning has been dominated by various...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
10. Foreign Direct Investment, Trade and Economic Growth

    Challenges and Opportunities

    Edited by Shahid Ahmed

    This volume examines the opportunities and challenges in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and trade, particularly service trade, for developing and emerging economies in a globalised world. Using comprehensive case studies from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (...

    Published April 28th 2013 by Routledge India