Forthcoming Public Finance Books

Forthcoming Books

1. Climate Change and the Private Sector

   Scaling Up Private Sector Response to Climate Change

   By Craig Hart

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics

   Climate Change and the Private Sector explores the challenges of transforming our energy infrastructure to become carbon neutral and adapting to climate change in the twenty-first century. It examines the critical role that the private sector must play in these challenges. To transform the global...

   To Be Published July 2nd 2013 by Routledge
2. The Recession and Beyond

   Local and Regional Responses to the Downturn

   Edited by David Bailey, Caroline Chapain

   Series: Regions and Cities

   How has the recession impacted on firms, people and places? How have local and regional authorities responded? This book aims to answer these questions by offering an overview of the impacts of the recession on people and places and how it has affected local authorities in the UK and other OECD...

   To Be Published July 4th 2013 by Routledge
3. The rise and fall of money manager capitalism

   Minsky's half century from world war two to the great recession

   By Eric Tymoigne, L. Randall Wray

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Finance and Stability

   The book studies the trends that led to the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, as well as the unfolding of the crisis, in order to provide policy recommendations to improve financial stability. The book starts with changes in monetary policy and income distribution from the 1970s....

   To Be Published July 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. Masterplanning the Adaptive City

   Computational Urbanism in the Twenty-First Century

   Edited by Tom Verebes

   Computational design has become widely accepted into mainstream architecture, but this is the first book to advocate applying it to create adaptable masterplans for rapid urban growth, urban heterogeneity, through computational urbanism. Practitioners and researchers here discuss ideas from the...

   To Be Published August 8th 2013 by Routledge
5. Public Private Partnerships in International Construction

   Learning from case studies

   By Albert P. C. Chan, Esther Cheung

   Over the last ten years public private partnerships have become ever more popular worldwide, expanding the body of experience among construction professionals, government agencies, and industry. In these economically challenging times, PPP has emerged as a crucial framework for providing...

   To Be Published August 14th 2013 by Routledge
6. Institutions and Development After the Financial Crisis

   Edited by Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   The financial crash of 2007-2008 and the subsequent global economic crisis have raised questions about the viability of capitalism and the desirability of alternative types of economic system. In this context, Keynesian and Marxist ideas in particular have become more popular. These two approaches,...

   To Be Published October 15th 2013 by Routledge
7. On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value-Judgments in Economic Sciences

   By Luigi Einaudi

   Edited by Paolo Silvestri

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   Luigi Einaudi (1874-1961) was a leading liberal economist, economic historian and political figure. This book provides the English-speaking world with a first critical edition of an unpublished version of Einaudi’s most important epistemological essay. The issues analysed here lie at the core of...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
8. A Citizen’s Guide to Federal Deficits and Debt

   The Politics of Taxing, Spending, and Borrowing

   By William Hudson

   Series: Citizen Guides to Politics and Public Affairs

   America is currently involved in one of the worst economic crises of modern times. As alarm increases over how the government will balance the budget, handle the debt, and maintain prosperity for the future, the minutia of debts and deficits remains incomprehensible to many. Why is it so hard to...

   To Be Published December 14th 2013 by Routledge
9. Economic Development and Global Crisis

   The Latin American Economy in Historical Perspective

   Edited by José Luís Cardoso, Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, M.E. Sotelo Romero

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   This edited volume uses a history of economic thought perspective to explore the evolving role of Latin America within the context of today’s globalization, examining in particular the region’s resilience in the face of the global financial crisis. During the global financial meltdown of 2008-9,...

   To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
10. Urban Access for the 21st Century

    Finance and Governance Models for Transport Infrastructure

    Edited by Elliott Sclar, Mans Lonnroth, Christian Wolmar

    This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all. Cities in developing countries have followed a path of dependency on transport systems dominated by car usage and favouring the middle classes. Urban Access for the 21st Century looks at ways in which policies can...

    To Be Published January 2nd 2014 by Routledge