Economics Catalog 2013

After the Bell

Family Background, Public Policy and Educational Success

Edited by Karen Albright, Dalton Conley

Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

Since the publication of the Coleman report in the US many decades ago, it has been widely accepted that the evidence that schools are marginal in the grand scheme of academic achievement is conclusive. Despite this, educational policy across the world remains focused almost exclusively on...

Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge

Architects of the International Financial System

By Anthony Endres

Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

Who were the great thinkers on international finance in the mid-twentieth century? What did they propose should be done to create a stable international financial order for promoting world trade and economic growth? This important book studies the ideas of some of the most innovative economists in...

Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge

The Asymmetries of Globalization

Edited by Pan Yotopoulos, Donato Romano

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

The discourse on globalization has become polarized. Proponents consider globalization as the silver bullet for targeting growth in the world economy and for poor countries specifically, while opponents see it as the poisoned arrow of exploitation and impoverishment of the Third World. Splendidly...

Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge

Banking in Central and Eastern Europe 1980-2006

From Communism to Capitalism

By Stephan Barisitz

Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

Comparative in structure and covering an extensive number of transition countries in its survey, this comprehensive book overviews the development of the banking systems in Central and Eastern European since the communist era until the present time. Taking in a range of countries including Hungary,...

Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge

Beyond Market-Driven Development

Drawing on the Experience of Asia and Latin America

Edited by Costas Lapavitsas

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

Because their economies were regulated, their financial systems ‘repressed’ and their states interventionist, for many years the countries of East Asia challenged the Washington consensus, offering an alternative development paradigm. However, in the 1990’s, Asian capitalism was disrupted following...

Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge

A Bibliography of Female Economic Thought up to 1940

By Kirsten Madden, Michele Pujol, Janet Seiz

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Contributions to female economic thought have come from prolific scholars, leading social reformers, economic journalists and government officials along with many other women who contributed only one or two works to the field. It is perhaps for this reason that a comprehensive bibliographic...

Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge

Capital Controversy, Post Keynesian Economics and the History of Economic Thought

Essays in Honour of Geoff Harcourt, Volume One

Edited by Philip Arestis, Gabriel Palma, Malcolm Sawyer

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Harcourt has made substantial and wide-ranging contributions to economics in general, and to post Keynesian economics in particular. In this volume more than forty leading economists pay tribute to and critically evaluate his work. The contributors represent a wide range of schools in economics,...

Published June 21st 2012 by Routledge

Central Banking in Eastern Europe

By Barry Harrison, Nigel Healey

Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

This book, written by a multinational team of experts, explores the changing face of central banking in Eastern Europe in the light of modern macroeconomic thinking, providing important and novel insights into the design of monetary policy institutions.With its authoritative content, this book will...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

The Changing Economic Geography of Globalization

By Giovanna Vertova

Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among...

Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge

Chinese Capitalism and the Modernist Vision

By Satyananda Gabriel

Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

In the past fifty years, the experience of the Chinese economy has continually challenged the assumptions of laissez-faire economics. It has sustained a strong growth rate, changed the structure of international economic relationships and has become critical to many multinational corporations. Now,...

Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge

Classical Econophysics

By Allin F. Cottrell, Paul Cockshott, Gregory John Michaelson, Ian P. Wright, Victor Yakovenko

Series: Routledge Advances in Experimental and Computable Economics

This monograph examines the domain of classical political economy using the methodologies developed in recent years both by the new discipline of econo-physics and by computing science. This approach is used to re-examine the classical subdivisions of political economy: production, exchange,...

Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge

Clinton and Blair

The Political Economy of the Third Way

By Flavio Romano

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

The former President of the United States, Bill Clinton and, at the time of publication, still current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Tony Blair have described their style of government as a ‘Third Way’. In this important and timely book, Flavio Romano identifies and clarifies the...

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

Consumption as an Investment

By Cosimo Perrotta

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Perrotta explores and charts the changing place of consumption as a source of investment in production and growth within economic writings from ancient history to the present. This ambitious project is carried out with great skill, vigour and originality and will help to bring consumption studies...

Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge

Copayments and the Demand for Prescription Drugs

By Domenico Esposito

Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

Increasing prescription drug cost-sharing by patients - in the form of increasing copayments - is one of the most striking, and controversial, developments in the health sector over recent years. The exact nature and use of copayments by health care insurers continues to be hot topic of debate....

Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge

Creative Industries and Developing Countries

Voice, Choice and Economic Growth

Edited by Diana Barrowclough, Zeljka Kozul-Wright

Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Political Economy

Pushing the frontiers of the new development paradigm, this book guides debates, clarifies new themes and illustrates how the cultural resources of the developing world can become a new way of integrating into the global economy - helping to raise the voices of developing countries, widening the...

Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge

Currency Convertibility

The Gold Standard and Beyond

Edited by Barry Eichengreen, Jaime Reis, Jorge Braga de Macedo

Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

The spread of currency convertibility is one of the most dramatic trends of the late twentieth century. It reflects the desire of policymakers to integrate their economies into the global trading system and to attract financial capital and direct investment from abroad.In this book a team of...

Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge

Developing Countries and the Doha Development Agenda of the WTO

Edited by Pitou van Dijck, Gerrit Faber

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

The Doha Development Agenda held the promise of substantial gains for developing countries. However, the realization of these gains is far from obvious: the interests of various groups of countries differ greatly and technical complexities have hampered further progress since the very start of the...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

Development Dilemmas

By Melvin Ayogu, Don Ross

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

It is widely believed that economic development in much of the world is not happening quickly enough. Indeed, the standard of living in some parts of the world has actually been declining. Many experts now doubt that the solution can be purely technical and economic; it must also be political and...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

Dewey, Pragmatism and Economic Methodology

Edited by Elias Khalil

Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

This book brings together, for the first time, philosophers of pragmatism and economists interested in methodological questions. The main theoretical thrust of Dewey is to unite inquiry with behavior and this book's contributions assess this insight in the light of developments in modern American...

Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge

Economic Development and Social Change

Edited by Yiorgos Stathakis, Gianni Vaggi

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Some of the greatest thinkers in the history of economic thought have been instrumental in advancing the study of development economics. In this volume, leading scholars are brought together to illuminate this tradition, with particular emphasis on the question of growth and development. Divided...

Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge

The Economics of Palestine

Economic Policy and Institutional Reform for a Viable Palestine State

Edited by David Cobham, Nu'man Kanafani

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

This book aims to set the intense political debates on one side in order to do some serious economic analysis. It assumes that a sovereign independent Palestinian state comes into existence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and proceeds to examine the economic policies and institutional reforms...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

The Economics of Social Responsibility

The World of Social Enterprises

Edited by Carlo Borzaga, Leonardo Becchetti

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

This book offers a rethinking of the burgeoning research on not-for-profit organizations and socially responsible economics. Adopting a comparative approach, the chapters explore and reinterpret the impact of social enterprises on the provision of general-interest services, work integration,...

Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge

Economics, Economists and Expectations

From Microfoundations to Macroapplications

By William Darity, Robert Leeson, Warren Young

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

The concept of rational expectations has played a hugely important role in economics over the years. Dealing with the origins and development of modern approaches to expectations in micro and macroeconomics, this book makes use of primary sources and previously unpublished material from such...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

Economists in Cambridge

A Study through their Correspondence, 1907-1946

By Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Annalisa Rosselli

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

The University of Cambridge has produced more Nobel Prize-winning economists than the whole of France. This impressive book collects together largely unpublished correspondence from some of the twentieth century's key figures including Keynes, Robinson, Hayek and Sraffa....

Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge

Encoding Capital

The Political Economy of the Human Genome Project

By Rodney Loeppky

Series: New Political Economy

First published in 2005...

Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge

Environment, Inequality and Collective Action

Edited by Marcello Basili, Maurizio Franzini, Alessandro Vercelli

Series: Routledge Siena Studies in Political Economy

Efficiency is the hallmark of environmental economics, and though economists are concerned with the environment, primarily because it challenges the efficiency of competitive markets, until now, limited attention has been paid to distributional issues. This excellent collection of essays identifies...

Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge

Essays in the History of Economics

Edited by William Henderson, Kirk D. Johnson, Marianne F. Johnson, Warren J. Samuels

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Under the impressive editorship of Warren Samuels et al, this book addresses the state of the history of economic thought today. An important contribution to the study of the history of economics, this eagerly-awaited book will develop an unsurprisingly large following....

Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge

Essays on Balance of Payments Constrained Growth

Theory and Evidence

Edited by John McCombie, Tony Thirlwall

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

There are many theories concerning the relationship between the pace of development and economic growth in different countries. This impressive collection explores the relationship between a country's balance of payments and their rate of economic growth. The evidence and ramifications within the...

Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge

Ethics and the Market

Insights from Social Economics

By Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma, Deborah M. Figart

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

Comprising cutting-edge work on the state of social economics today, this theoretically diverse book includes strong emphasis on the role of ethics, morality, identity, and society in economic theorizing. Much existing economic theory overlooks ethics. Rather than situating the market and values...

Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge

The European Economy in an American Mirror

Edited by Barry Eichengreen, Dieter Stiefel, Michael Landesmann

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

Europe’s economy is under strain due to lagging productivity growth, population ageing, the difficulties of adjustment in an enlarged European Union, and the challenges of globalization. In comparison with America, rates of growth of GDP per capita and labour productivity growth are anaemic,...

Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge

Evolution and Design of Institutions

By Christian Schubert, Georg Von Wangenheim

Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

This book comprises nine papers approaching designed institutions and their interplay with spontaneous institutions from various angles. While the evolution of spontaneous institutions is quite well understood in economic thinking, the development of consciously designed institutions has been...

Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge

Evolution of the Market Process

Austrian and Swedish Economics

Edited by Michel Bellet, Sandye Gloria-Palermo, Abdallah Zouache

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

This impressive volume centres on the relationship between Austrian and Swedish economics. Exploring themes such as capital theory, expectations, policy, market theory and the history of economic thought, this book makes for an interesting read. It will appeal across a wide range of disciplines...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

Evolutionary Economic Geography

Location of production and the European Union

By Miroslav Jovanovic

Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

The purpose of this book is to provide a guided tour through the theoretical foundations of spatial locations of firms and industries in an evolutionary economic framework. It addresses the issues of how a location of business in geographical space is selected and where economic activity may (re)...

Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge

The Experience of Economic Redistribution

The Growth, Employment and Redistribution Strategy in South Africa

By Clarence Tshitereke

Series: African Studies

This book provides an analysis of the country's political economy in transition. It documents the history of the gold mining industry's involvement in shaping the political landscape of South Africa, and shows the degree to which the political transition was induced to put in place a new mode of...

Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge

The Experiment in the History of Economics

Edited by Philippe Fontaine, Robert Leonard

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Throughout the history of economic ideas, it has often been asserted that experimentation is impossible, yet, in fact, history shows that the idea of ‘experimentation’ has always been important, and as such has been interpreted and put to use in many ways. Rich in historical detail, the essays in...

Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge

Financial Crises

Socio-Economic Causes and Institutional Context

By Brenda Spotton Visano

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

This study explores the major patterns of change in the evolution of financial crises as enduring phenomena and analyzes the paradoxical position that crises are at once similar to and different from each other. Brenda Spotton-Visano examines economic, psychological and social elements intrinsic to...

Published July 25th 2012 by Routledge

Financial Markets in Central and Eastern Europe

Stability and Efficiency

Edited by Morten Balling, Frank Lierman, Andy Mullineux

Series: Routledge Studies in the European Economy

The countries of Central and Eastern Europe have been through a profound transition process for more than a decade now. The financial sectors and markets in the region have been subject to major structural reforms including privatization, liberalization and the acquisition by foreign banks of...

Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge

Fiscal Deficits in the Pacific Region

Edited by Akira Kohsaka

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

Fiscal policy is an incredibly important tool for governments across the world, with many countries facing dilemmas in crafting fiscal policies to meet changing demographic needs, greater demands for social welfare and sudden spending due to shocks such as terrorism. This important book looks at...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

Fixing Financial Crises in the 21st Century

Edited by Andrew Haldane

Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

Financial crises have dogged the international monetary system over recent years. They have impoverished millions of people around the world, especially within developing countries. And they have called into question the very process of globalization. Yet there remains no intellectual consensus...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

The Flawed Foundations of General Equilibrium Theory

Critical Essays on Economic Theory

By Frank Ackerman, Alejandro Nadal, Kevin P. Gallagher

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

This book, as the title suggests, explains how General equilibrium, the dominant conceptual framework in mainstream economics, describes a perfectly impossible world. Even with its counterfactual assumptions taken for granted, it fails on many levels. Under the impressive editorship of Ackerman and...

Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge

Foreign Direct Investment and the World Economy

By Ashoka Mody

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

Asking the question of whether Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is 'integrating' the world economy, this comprehensive volume consists of an overview of current FDI research. While the term 'integrating' is often used, the real test should be whether FDI is instrumental in bringing per...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

The Foreign Exchange Market of London

Development Since 1900

By John Atkin

Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

Foreign Exchange is big business in the City of London. At the last official count, turnover on the London foreign exchange market averaged a staggering $504 billion a day. No other financial centre in the world even comes close to matching this total. Thirty one per cent of global foreign...

Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge

Full-Spectrum Economics

Toward an Inclusive and Emancipatory Social Science

By Christian Arnsperger

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Economics is essential in today’s world, and yet mainstream economists are increasingly under criticism for not taking into account sufficiently many dimensions of real life, such as political and moral values, human development, spirituality, and people’s widely shared aspiration to live more...

Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge

Global View on the World Economy

A Global Analysis

By Horst Siebert

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

As globalization continues apace, market segmentations are diminishing, distance is shrinking and the boundaries between nation states are becoming increasingly blurred. National economies are closely interlinked through manychannels and we rarely view things from a single country’s view, adopting...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

Globalisation and the Labour Market

Trade, Technology and Less Skilled Workers in Europe and the United States

Edited by Robert Anderton, Paul Brenton, John Whalley

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

Incorporating new empirical data and using a wide variety of methods such as econometrics, general equilibrium and case studies, this detailed volume provides a thorough investigation into the causes of the deterioration in the relative economic fortunes of less-skilled workers across various...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

Globalization and Self-Determination

Is the Nation-State Under Siege?

By David R. Cameron, Gustav Ranis, Annalisa Zinn

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

Is the nation state under siege? A common answer is that globalization poses two fundamental threats to state sovereignty. The first concerns the unleashing of centrifugal and centripetal forces - such as increasing market integration and the activities of institutions like the IMF, World Bank, and...

Published January 22nd 2012 by Routledge

Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade

History, Theory and Empirical Evidence

By Anwar Shaikh

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. Its proclaimed purpose is to reduce global poverty, its protocols are derived from the orthodox theory of competitive free markets and its policies are enforced by the full weight of the rich countries...

Published March 4th 2013 by Routledge

Good Governance in the Era of Global Neoliberalism

Conflict and Depolitization in Latin America, Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa

Edited by Jolle Demmers, Alex E. Fernández Jilberto, Barbara Hogenboom

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

This new collection critically examines the new global policy of 'good governance'. This catchphrase of aid policy and development thinking has been the subject of too little analysis to date. This book redresses the balance. It places the prefix 'good', and exactly what that means, under the...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

History and Political Economy

Essays in Honour of P.D. Groenewegan

Edited by Tony Aspromourgos, John Lodewijks

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Impressive and authoritative, this essential book brings together a collection of essays in honour of Peter Groenewegen, one of the most distinguished historians of economic thought of a generation. His work on a wide range of economic theorists such as Adam Smith, François Quesnay and Alfred...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

A History of Entrepreneurship

By Robert F Hébert, Albert N. Link

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship. It focuses on the nature and role of the entrepreneur, and of entrepreneurship, as revealed in...

Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge

How Monetary Policy Works

Edited by Lavan Mahadeva, Peter J N Sinclair

Series: CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR'S SYMPOSIUM

For monetary policymakers worldwide, developing a practical understanding of how monetary policy transmits to the economy is a day-to-day challenge. The data such policymakers have is imperfect, the maps they use are continually redrawn. With such uncertainty, understanding this complicated issue...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

Individualism and the Social Order

The Social Element in Liberal Thought

By Charles McCann

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Liberalism is typically misconceived as a philosophy of individualism, which cannot accept that man exists in society and that man's values are shaped by that society.This book attempts to identify the role of community and society in the political and social thought of leading liberal social...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

Inequality and Economic Integration

Edited by Francesco Farina, Ernesto Savaglio

Series: Routledge Siena Studies in Political Economy

Internationally, globalization and increased economic integration has impacted quality of life and individual well-being. Attempts to evaluate the impact on income dispersion from this process have been extremely controversial. This key volume is the first real attempt to build up indices and a...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

Inequality and Power

The Economics of Class

By Eric A. Schutz

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

This book is about the causes and consequences of economic inequality in the advanced market economies of today. It is commonplace that in market systems people choose their own individual economic destinies, but of course the choices people make are importantly determined by the alternatives...

Published June 29th 2012 by Routledge

Innovation in Complex Social Systems

Edited by Petra Ahrweiler

Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

Innovation is the creation of new, technologically feasible, commercially realisable products and processes and, if things go right, it emerges from the ongoing interaction of innovative organisations such as universities, research institutes, firms, government agencies and venture capitalists....

Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge

Institutional Change in the Payments System and Monetary Policy

By Stefan W. Schmitz, Geoffrey Wood

Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

"Central bankers worldwide welcome the recent increase of research on payment systems. This volume, providing an expert overview on this timely subject, should be required reading for us all". - Erkki Liikanen, Governor of the Bank of Finland Monetary policy has been at the centre of economic...

Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge

International Economic Integration in Historical Perspective

By Dennis Patrick McCarthy

Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

International economic integration is not a recent phenomenon; its roots can be traced back to the Roman Empire. This informative volume departs from the conventional short-term analysis and takes a long-term view of the process, offering perspectives that are both detailed and diverse. Author...

Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge

International Labor Mobility

Unemployment and Increasing Returns to Scale

By Bharati Basu

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

Migration of workers within and across national boundaries is an important issue in an age of increasing levels of innovation and invention which economizes cost and helps large scale production.This book analyses the implications of migration for the levels of unemployment and distinguishes...

Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge

International Perspectives on Temporary Work

Edited by John Burgess, Julia Connell

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

The numbers of workers employed on a temporary basis has grown massively over the last few decades. The benefits to firms of hiring workers on a temporary basis are clear and generally can be reduced to their cheaper short term cost. The status of workers employed in this manner however means that...

Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge

The International Trading System

By Alice Landau

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

The World Trade Organization (WTO) is without doubt one of our main instruments of globalization, the controversy which is whipped up by this organization is arguably mainly caused by the mystery which surrounds it.The International Trade System seeks to remove the clouds of misunderstanding that...

Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge

Jean-Baptiste Say and the Classical Canon in Economics

The British Connection in French Classicism

By Samuel Hollander

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

This book explores the perceived paradigmatic conflict within British classical economics between the so called 'Ricardo School' and the contemporary French Economics of Jean-Baptiste Say. Samuel Hollander provides the reader with extensive evidence, utilizing all editions of Say's main texts and...

Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge

Knut Wicksell on the Causes of Poverty and its Remedy

By Mats Lundahl

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Knut Wicksell is arguably the greatest Swedish social scientist of all time, and poverty was a theme that occupied him all his life. Indeed, it was probably Wicksell's interest in poverty that was the critical factor in drawing him away from his purely mathematical background towards a greater...

Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge

Law Reform in Developing and Transitional States

By Tim Lindsey

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

Law reform in developing countries has become an increasingly topical subject in recent years. A critical issue is why so many law reform projects in developing economies are regarded by their sponsors and recipients as unsuccessful. This informative book: examines examples of law...

Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge

Local Industrial Clusters

Existence, Emergence and Evolution

By Thomas Brenner

Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

The key approach taken in this book is that all local economic clusters have something in common - specific case-studies are thus put into wider perspective in a masterly study that will be of keen interest to both economists and geographers....

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

Location and Competition

Edited by Harry Garretsen, Steven Brakman

Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

The 'new economic geography' is one of the most significant developments to have occurred in economics in recent years. The new insights gained from this approach have been successfully applied to issues such as globalization, international integration and policy competition. Contributed to and...

Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge

Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty

Edited by Ashoka Mody, Catherine Pattillo

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going beyond...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policy

Essays in Honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi

Edited by K. Vela Velupillai

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Jean-Paul Fitoussi needs no introduction as one of the world's foremost Macroeconomists of his generation. This celebration of his work includes contributions from Nobel Prize - winning economists Robert W. Clower and Robert Solow as well as Olivier Blanchard and leading economic theorist, Edmond...

Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge

Managing Development

Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy

Edited by Junji Nakagawa

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. Though for some, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth through active involvement in the integrated and liberalized world economy, it also increased their vulnerability to...

Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge

Markets in Fashion

A phenomenological approach

By Patrik Aspers

Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

Interest in contemporary cultural industries has grown in the past decade, as they take on a greater significance in our increasingly consumer-led society. Focusing on the world of fashion photography, this book presents an interdisciplinary approach in which this and other aesthetic markets, such...

Published November 15th 2011 by Routledge

McCloskey's Rhetoric

Discourse Ethics in Economics

By Benjamin Balak

Series: Routledge INEM Advances in Economic Methodology

The rhetoric of economics has long claimed scientific objectivity, however the late, great economist Joan Robinson argued that ‘the purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists.’ This unique...

Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge

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

Mergers and Acquisitions in Asia

A Global Perspective

By Roger Y.W. Tang, Ali M. Metwalli

Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

This book examines recent trends towards mergers and acquisitions in Japan, Greater China and Southeast Asia from 1990 to 2004. Comparisons are made among regions and between countries of particular regions. The economic profiles and investment climates of key countries are discussed and...

Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge

Microfinance

Perils and Prospects

Edited by Jude L. Fernando

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

Microfinance is defined as the financial services offered to the poor for the purpose of promoting small-scale enterprises, and as such it is one of the most important topics in development studies and a burgeoning area in economics. This volume provides a much-needed historical, political and...

Published September 18th 2012 by Routledge

Miracle for Whom?

Chilean Workers Under Free Trade

By Janine Berg

Series: New Political Economy

Miracle for Whom? offers a fresh and insightful perspective to the debate on rising income inequality in Chile, and on the broader question of how free trade affects the demand for workers in developing countries....

Published April 30th 2013 by Routledge

Monetary Policy and Unemployment

The US, Euro-area and Japan

By Willi Semmler

Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

This book pulls together papers presented at a conference in honour of the 1981 Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science, the late James Tobin. Among the contributors are Olivier Blanchard, Edmund Phelps, Charles Goodhart and Marco Buti.One of the main aims of the conference was to discuss what...

Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge

Money and Exchange

Folktales and Reality

By Sasan Fayazmanesh

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Whether a theoretical system is realistic or not has been a concern in economics, particularly in monetary theory, over the past century. Following John R. Hicks’ proposal that a realistic monetary theory could be constructed along an evolutionary path, starting with the workings of a real market,...

Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge

Money and Markets

Essays in Honor of Leland B. Yeager

By Roger Koppl

Series: Routledge Foundations of the Market Economy

Important and celebrated economist Leland Yeager is one of the architects of the 'Virginia School' of political economy that has produced two Nobel laureates (James Buchanan and Ronald Coase) and the Public Choice movement. A number of top class contributors have here been brought together...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

Money and Markets

A Doctrinal Approach

Edited by Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Alberto Giacomin

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

This book brings together fourteen essays by leading authors in the field of economics to explore the relationship between money and markets throughout economic theory and history, providing readers with the key to understanding fundamental issues in monetary theory and other important debates in...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

Network Access, Regulation and Antitrust

Edited by Diana L. Moss

Series: The Economics of Legal Relationships

The rapid growth of network industries has generated much comment amongst academics and policy makers. This timely volume takes an interdisciplinary, case study-based approach to examining network issues and experiences in order to develop recommendations that can inform antitrust, regulatory and...

Published November 1st 2012 by Routledge

The New Industrial Geography

Regions, Regulation and Institutions

Edited by Trevor Barnes, Meric S Gertler

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

Drawing on the theoretical resources of institutional economics, The New Industrial Geography opens new perspectives in economic geography. In its focus on historical and geographical context, institutional embeddedness, and tacit rules and formal regulations, institutional economics is shown to...

Published November 10th 2011 by Routledge

New Socialisms

Futures Beyond Globalization

Edited by Robert Albritton, Shannon Bell, Shannon Bell, Richard Westra

Series: Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

On the Origins of Classical Economics

Distribution and Value from William Petty to Adam Smith

By Tony Aspromourgos

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Examines the origin and early development of the classical theory of distribution up to 1767, stressing the concept of economic `surplus' as a key determinant of economic phenomena....

Published November 3rd 2011 by Routledge

Overcoming Inequality in Latin America

Issues and Challenges for the 21st Century

Edited by Ricardo Gottschalk, Patricia Justino

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

Latin America is faced with the challenge of achieving the Millennium Developmental Goal to halve poverty in the region by 2015. Historically, this region has experienced persistently high levels of inequality and poverty, the causes and consequences of which are analytically examined here....

Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge

Political Economy of Human Rights

Rights, Realities and Realization

By Bas de Gaay Fortman

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Political Economy of Human Rights is the first complete text covering and discussing human rights from a political economy perspective. Confronting international human rights with both global and local economic-political realities, this book entails a full shake-up of the UN led mission for human...

Published June 30th 2012 by Routledge

Politics and Economics in the History of the European Union

By Alan Milward

Series: The Graz Schumpeter Lectures

The Graz-Schumpeter annual lectures have grown in reputation over the years with impressive figures from academia such as Ian Steedman, J. Stanley Metcalfe and Duncan K. Foley contributing their own impressive series of lectures. The books produced as a result of these lectures are no less...

Published October 21st 2012 by Routledge

The Politics of Aid Selectivity

Good Governance Criteria in World Bank, U.S. and Dutch Development Assistance

By Wil Hout

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

The first extended analysis of selectivity policies of important bilateral and multilateral aid donors, this book combines a policy-analytical with a quantitative-empirical approach. Bringing out the conflicts that may exist between foreign assistance agendas and the desire of governments in...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

The Private Sector after Communism

New Entrepreneurial Firms in Transition Economies

By Vladimir Banacek, Mihaly Laki, Jan Winiecki

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

The transformation of state-owned enterprises into privately owned ones is commonly referred to as 'privatization'. Just as important as this process, though sometimes not given the attention it deserves and requires, is the establishment and expansion of new private firms.This book analyzes new...

To Be Published June 19th 2013 by Routledge

Production and Consumption in English Households 1600–1750

By Darron Dean, Andrew Hann Nfa, Mark Overton, Jane Whittle

Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

This economic, social and cultural analysis of the nature and variety of production and consumption activities in households in Kent and Cornwall yields important new insights on the transition to capitalism in England....

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

Property Rights, Economics and the Environment

Edited by Michael D. Kaplowitz

Series: The Economics of Legal Relationships

This book explores how discussions of environmental policy increasingly require scholars and practitioners to integrate legal-economic analyses of property rights issues. An excellent array of contributors have come together for the first time to produce this magnificent book....

Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge

Regional Monetary Policy

By Carlos Javier Rodriguez Fuentes

Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

With the final phase of the European Monetary Union underway, concern has been raised over the regional implications of the European Central Bank (ECB) Monetary Policy. Departing from the standard approach utilized by the ECB, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to explore the...

Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge

Rural Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction Policies

Edited by Frank Ellis, H. Ade Freeman

Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

This important new collection of contributions brings together current thinking on poverty reduction and rural livelihoods in developing countries. As well as leading economists in the field such as Frank Ellis and Chris Barrett, there are a number of contributors from developing countries...

Published November 28th 2011 by Routledge

Russian Path Dependence

A People with a Troubled History

By Stefan Hedlund

Series: Routledge Studies in the European Economy

Russia's transition to a market economy has been tortuous to say the least. However, this book argues that the arguments and counter-arguments that pitch shock therapy against gradualism are wide of the mark and quite pointless.Indeed, the reasons for the warped outcomes can actually be traced back...

Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge

Shipping and Ports in the Twenty-first Century

Edited by David Pinder, Brian Slack

Series: Routledge Advances in Maritime Research

Shipping and port systems are vital to societies and lifestyles around the world. In the late twentieth century, however, assumptions concerning the robustness of these systems were severely shaken by economic shocks triggered by oil crises. This volume explores how many of the consequent...

Published June 28th 2012 by Routledge

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

State Competence and Economic Growth in Japan

By Yoshiro Miwa

Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

Yoshiro Miwa asks whether a state can correct market failures and in particular critically analyses the performance of the Japanese economy as a result of state intervention within it. In order to examine the capacity of the state to promote growth, Miwa examines the Japanese machine tool industry,...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge

State Health Insurance Market Reform

Toward Inclusive and Sustainable Health Insurance Markets

By Joel C. Cantor, Alan C. Monheit

Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

In this volume, leading American health economists provide a critical assessment of the current state of knowledge of insurance market reform that is accessible to both policy-makers and researchers....

Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge

Structuralism and Individualism in Economic Analysis

The "Contractionary Devaluation Debate" in Development Economics

By S. Charusheela

Series: New Political Economy

This book argues that the debates about the appropriate economic policies to follow in the developing world within the field of development economics are at heart debates about the appropriate ontology to ascribe to agents within the developing world....

Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge

The Struggle Over Work

The 'End of Work' and Employment Alternatives in Post-Industrial Societies

By Shaun Wilson

Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

The future of work in advanced industrial democracies is the subject of intense debate and public concern. Despite predictions that working hours would fall and leisure time would rise as society progressed, the opposite has in fact occurred. This new book contains a twofold investigation into 'the...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge