Routledge Revivals 2011

Man and Organization (Routledge Revivals)

The Search for Explanation and Social Relevance

Edited by John Child

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1973, this volume concentrates upon contemporary issues of a theoretical and methodological nature in the study of organizations. The contributors are concerned with contemporary ways of explaining the sociological role of modern organizations and work within them. They...

Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge

Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals)

Historical Change and the Labour Process in the Production of Built Environment

By Linda Clarke

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism. Linda Clarke’s vital work argues that: Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in building as well as a concentration of the labour...

Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge

The Economics of the Industrial Revolution (Routledge Revivals)

Edited by Joel Mokyr

Series: Routledge Revivals

In recent years, scholars from a variety of disciplines have addressed many perplexing questions about the Industrial Revolution in all its aspects. Understandably, economics has become the focal point for these efforts as professional economists have sought to resolve some of the controversies...

Published May 21st 2011 by Routledge

The Impact of Economic Democracy

Profit-sharing and Employee-Shareholding Schemes

By Michael Poole, Glenville Jenkins

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1990, this work examines the link between the economic performance of companies and profit sharing. The relationship is a complex one: industrial relations may be improved by schemes, but good employers are likely to introduce profit sharing in any case; and though attitudes...

Published March 8th 2011 by Routledge

The Making of Neoclassical Economics (Routledge Revivals)

By John F. Henry

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1990, this unique explanation of the rise of neoclassical economics views social change as an engine promoting change in theory. It attempts to develop a theory of the origins, consolidation and rise to dominance of the neoclassical school of thought. In so doing, it addresses...

Published February 28th 2011 by Routledge

Economic Methodology and Freedom to Choose (Routledge Revivals)

By Patrick O'Sullivan

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1987, Professor O'Sullivan's work provides an in depth philosophical examination of the foundations of method in Economics and other human sciences. The argument is unabashedly dialectical in the great Socratic-Platonic tradition, and the reissue will be very welcome to all...

Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge

Multinationals and World Trade (Routledge Revivals)

Vertical Integration and the Division of Labour in World Industries

By Mark Casson

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1986, this work reports the results of the Leverhulme project on multinationals and intermediate product trade based at the University of Reading during the academic year 1982/3. Chapter 1 summaries the main results of this project. Part I focuses upon the theoretical...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

Economic Studies (Routledge Revivals)

Contributions to the Critique of Economic Theory

By David Levine

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1977, David Levine's Economic Studies offers a critique and reconstruction of the theoretical conception of economic life. The premise of the study is that only an investigation of the system of elementary economic relations - value, capital, production - can overcome the...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

Wage-Fixing (Routledge Revivals)

Stagflation - Volume 1

By J. E. Meade

Series: Routledge Revivals: Stagflation

This reissue, first published in 1982, is the first of two volumes on the causes and cure of Stagflation - the two-headed monster that combines mass unemployment with rapid inflation, which affected contemporary economies across the industrially developped world in the 1970s. Professor Meade...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

Demand Management (Routledge Revivals)

Stagflation - Volume 2

By David A Vines, J. M. Maciejowski, J. E. Meade

Series: Routledge Revivals: Stagflation

First published in 1983, this is the second of two volumes on the causes and cure of stagflation – that combination of mass unemployment and rapid inflation that is currently afflicting the mixed economies of the industrially developed world. The authors deplore the unemployment due to the failure...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

Stagflation (2 Volumes) (Routledge Revivals)

By Various

Series: Routledge Revivals: Stagflation

Comprising Wage-Fixing (first published 1982), and Demand Management (first published 1983) this two volume reissued set is a vital and stimulating analysis of the causes and consequences of stagflation – a paralysing combination of mass unemployment and rapid inflation which affected a variety of...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

Alfred Marshall

By David Reisman

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1986, 1987 and 1990, this three volume reissue covers the life and times of leading economic theorist, Alfred Marshall - one of the founders of neoclassical economics. David Reisman's incisive and comprehensive study divides Marshall's work into three key areas:...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

The Economics of Alfred Marshall (Routledge Revivals)

By David Reisman

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1986, The Economics of Alfred Marshall is concerned with the theories of demand, supply, market structure and income distribution which the celebrated author of the Principles of Economics developed while standing on the shoulders of giants. It is thus concerned with hidden...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics (Routledge Revivals)

By David Reisman

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1987, Alfred Marshall: Progress and Politics provides an enlightening insight into Marshall's thoughts on social improvement, adaptive upgrading, policy and polity. He planned books on these subjects which he never subsequently wrote, but the thesis of this work is...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

Alfred Marshall's Mission (Routledge Revivals)

By David Reisman

Series: Routledge Revivals

Alfred Marshall was anxious to do good. Intended by an Evangelical father for the vocation of clergyman, the author of the mould-shaping Principles of Economics remained to the end of his days a great preacher deeply committed to raising the tone of life. First published in 1990, Alfred Marshall’s...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

Confessions of an Economic Heretic

By J. A. Hobson

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1938 this Routledge Revival is a reissue of the autobiography of influential economist J. A. Hobson. A comprehensive work, it details many aspects of his life including his background, influences, ethical principles, philosophy and religion. In a life...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

The Distorted World of Soviet-Type Economies (Routledge Revivals)

By Jan Winiecki

Series: Routledge Revivals

The Soviet Union and Eastern Europe provide unique examples of large-scale relatively highly developed centrally planned economies. In the 1980s economists in both the East and West began to focus with increasingly critical attention on the economies of the Soviet Bloc, in an...

Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge

Types of Economic Theory

By Othmar Spann

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in English 1929, this is a reissue of the nineteenth edition of Othmar Spann's classic history of economic thought, which is strongly influenced by the German Romantic tradition. Spann intended the work to serve as both history of economic thought and a critique of the...

Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge

Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare (Routledge Revivals)

Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare

By E. Mishan

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1981, Professor Mishan’s Economic Efficiency and Social Welfare: Selected Essays on Fundamental Aspects of the Economic Theory of Social Welfare is a collection of 22 pioneering essays written while the author was teaching at the London School of Economics and chosen to indicate...

Published June 28th 2011 by Routledge

Marxism (Routledge Revivals)

Philosophy and Economics

By Thomas Sowell

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1985, Thomas Sowell’s book is a crisp, lucid and commonsensical introduction to Marx’s own writings and to Marxist theory. It combines readability with intellectual rigour and distils more than a quarter of a century of Thomas Sowell’s research and thought on the philosophical...

Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge

The Economics of Defence Spending

An International Survey

Edited by Keith Hartley, Todd Sandler

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1990, this is an authoritative account of defence spending and policy in both developing and developed countries. The book provides case-studies and comparitive materiel for policy-makers, civil servants, and military staffs throughout hte world. It will also be of great use...

Published March 30th 2011 by Routledge

Post-Industrial America (Routledge Revivals)

A Geographical Perspective

By David Clark

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1984, this book analyses contemporary changes in industry, employment, education, science and technology, social attitudes and values in the USA, leading to the emergence of a new geography of post-industrial America. David Clark emphasizes the distributional processes and trends...

Published March 6th 2011 by Routledge

Economic Behaviour (Routledge Revivals)

An Introduction

By Colin Harbury

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1980, Economic Behaviour: An Introduction has been written specifically to speed up the settling-in process of students new to the subject of economics. It starts at the shallow end with the family budget and proceeds via an examination of business decision-taking to the analysis...

Published June 28th 2011 by Routledge

The Theory of Economic Integration (Routledge Revivals)

By Bela Balassa

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1962, The Theory of Economic Integration provides an excellent exposition of a complex and far-reaching topic. Professor Balassa has been remarkably successful in covering so much ground with such care and balance, in a treatment which is neither in any way abstruse nor...

Published June 28th 2011 by Routledge

Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 (Routledge Revivals)

Two Paths to the Twentieth Century

By Patrick O'Brien, Caglar Keyder

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1978, Professor O’Brien’s Economic Growth in Britain and France 1780-1914 is an original and pioneering exercise in comparative and quantitative economic history. It finds a controversial place in the debate on the question of French retardation in the 19th century and as a brave...

Published June 28th 2011 by Routledge

Introduction to Political Economy (Routledge Revivals)

By E. Mishan

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1982, Introduction to Political Economy is a clear and concise introduction to the normative aspects of economics by one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject. In this highly readable book, Professor Mishan takes the student to the heart of the subject without...

Published August 29th 2011 by Routledge

Economic Myths and the Mythology of Economics (Routledge Revivals)

By E. Mishan

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1986, Economic Myths and the Mythology of Economics is a polemical study in which the author focuses on the popular myths and misconceptions that colour our understanding of economic issues. Professor Mishan, the internationally recognised economist and expert in the field of...

Published August 28th 2011 by Routledge

Pornography, Psychedelics and Technology (Routledge Revivals)

Essays on the Limits to Freedom

By E. Mishan

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1980, Pornography, Psychedelics and Technology: Essays on the Limits to Freedom focuses on the crucial connections between technological growth and the more salient features of social malaise in the latter part of the twentieth century. Professor Mishan is one of the few...

Published August 28th 2011 by Routledge

Knut Wicksell: Selected Essays Volumes 1 & 2

Edited by Bo Sandelin

Series: Routledge Revivals: Knut Wicksell

Knut Wicksell was one of the most influential economists of the twentieth century, making major contributions to price theory, monetary theory and capital theory. A prolific and diverse thinker, his ideas were to inspire the Stockholm School, the Austrian School and mainstream neo-classical...

Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge

Knut Wicksell

Selected Essays in Economics, Volume 1

By Bo Sandelin

Series: Routledge Revivals: Knut Wicksell

Knut Wicksell made enormous contributions to capital theory, monetary theory and fiscal policy. However whilst his books are widely available in English, few of his more than 800 articles have ever been translated. This volume, first published in 1997, includes new translations of Wicksell's...

Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge

Knut Wicksell

Selected Essays in Economics, Volume 2

Edited by Bo Sandelin

Series: Routledge Revivals: Knut Wicksell

This book, along with its predecessor, makes most of Wicksell's most important contributions accessible to English speaking readers for the first time. The essays collected here, first published in 1999, focus on money and price theory and include Wicksell's book reviews of Leon Walrus,...

Published October 16th 2011 by Routledge

Was Stalin Really Necessary?

Some Problems of Soviet Economic Policy

By Alec Nove

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1964, Was Stalin Really Necessary? is a thought-provoking work which deals with many aspects of the Soviet political economy, planning problems and statistics. Professor Nove starts with an attempt to evaluate the rationality of Stalinism and discusses the possible political...

Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge

Political Economy and Soviet Socialism (Routledge Revivals)

By Alec Nove

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1979, Political Economy and Soviet Socialism is an integrated selection of papers written over the past 12 years of Russian history, which offers a unique insight into some important and controversial issues. Professor Nove discusses the ideas of some of the leaders of the...

Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge

Efficiency Criteria for Nationalised Industries (Routledge Revivals)

By Alec Nove

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1973, Efficiency Criteria for Nationalised Industries asks by what criteria we should judge the efficiency of nationalised industries, what we mean by saying they should be run commercially and where the public interest should lie. In this work, Professor Nove believes we answer...

Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge

Glasnost' in Action (Routledge Revivals)

Cultural Renaissance in Russia

By Alec Nove

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1991, Glasnost in Action: Cultural Renaissance in Russia is a comprehensive portrait of a society in transition as Professor Nove reflects on the changes taking place in the USSR at that time. While in English, glasnost' means ‘openness’, the author questions what ‘openness’...

Published November 17th 2011 by Routledge

The Soviet Economy (Routledge Revivals)

By Alec Nove

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1961, The Soviet Economy is a well informed work which seeks to acquaint students with the structure and problems of the economy of the USSR. In a balanced and perceptive analysis, Alexander Nove describes the organisation of economic life and of the planning system, analysing...

Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge

Socialism, Economics and Development (Routledge Revivals)

By Alec Nove

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1986, this text brings together a selection of papers written by the great Alec Nove on development economics, Marxist economies, the Soviet economy, and law and politics in the Soviet Union. Reflecting the varied and diverse interests of its distinguished author, the topics...

Published November 16th 2011 by Routledge

Rationalisation and Unemployment (Routledge Revivals)

An Economic Dilemma

By J. A. Hobson

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1930, John Hobson’s study deals with the economic dilemmas generated in the early twentieth century by the advent of mass production. Namely the over-production and surfeit of goods and the resultant failure of the expansion of markets leading to record levels of mass...

Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge

An Economic History of Modern France

By Francois Caron

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1979, this richly documented study of French development from the early nineteenth century to the present day is of particular importance to students both of history and economics. Francis Caron moves as confidently through the fields of current economic policy and modern...

Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge

The Fall and Rise of the Asiatic Mode of Production (Routledge Revivals)

By Stephen Dunn

Series: Routledge Revivals

This reissue was first published in 1982. It deals specifically with the ‘Asiatic mode of production’ described by Karl Marx in his basic evolutionary model for human society. The term defines a special form of society marked by state ownership of the means of production and extensive...

Published January 25th 2011 by Routledge

The London and New York Stock Exchanges 1850-1914 (Routledge Revivals)

By Ranald Michie

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1987, this is a reissue of the first book to offer a detailed comparison of two of the foremost stock exchanges in world before 1914. It is not only an exercise in comparative economic history but it also relates these institutions to wider world...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

Venture Capital

International Comparions

By Milford B. Green

First published in 1990, this is the first text to offer a goegraphicand regional study of venture capitalism. Although the importance of this type of capitalism in creating and nurturing small firms has long been recognized, it does not have a uniform global character. Drawing on previously unused...

Published March 30th 2011 by Routledge

Evolutionary Macroeconomics (Routledge Revivals)

By John Foster

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1987, Evolutionary Macroeconomics offers an evolutionary approach to macroeconomics as an alternative to contemporary new classical and Keynesian macroeconomics. In order to develop such an approach, an alternative view of the micro-foundations of macroeconomics is presented....

Published June 28th 2011 by Routledge

Insurance for Unemployment

By Michael Beenstock, Valerie Brasse

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1986, Insurance for Unemployment proposes a radical approach to the reform of unemployment and social insurance. The book develops the ethical, economic and actuarial case for the proposed reforms, whereby the individual pays the contributions which reflect the unemployment risk...

Published July 25th 2011 by Routledge

The World Economy in Transition (Routledge Revivals)

By Michael Beenstock

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1984, Michael Beenstock develops in The World Economy in Transition an original, stimulating and accessible analysis of the world economy in its many aspects, and this second edition includes a chapter on the International Banking Crisis in line with the author’s Transition...

Published June 28th 2011 by Routledge

National Income and Economic Growth (Routledge Revivals)

By Kenneth Kenkichi Kurihara

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1961, Kenneth K. Kurihara’s National Income and Economic Growth makes a pioneering effort to integrate national income accounting, income-employment theory and growth analysis as a unified whole. In his belief that growth economics is taught most effectively as a dynamic...

Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge

Money, Credit and the Economy (Routledge Revivals)

By Richard Coghlan

Series: Routledge Revivals

The Theory of Money and Finance, by the same author, provided an introduction to the basic theory and concluded by introducing the idea of monetary disequilibrium, with the money supply process operating through bank credit creation. First published in 1981, this book develops that theme and...

Published June 28th 2011 by Routledge

British Management Thought (Routledge Revivals)

A Critical Analysis

By John Child

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1969, British Management Thought is an indispensable text for anyone with a critical interest in the development of British management philosophy, from management teachers, through to informed managers, sociologists and historians. Utilizing detailed documentary evidence, Dr...

Published March 13th 2011 by Routledge

The Development of the Economies of Continental Europe 1850-1914 (Routledge Revivals)

By Alan Milward, S. Saul

Series: Routledge Revivals

This work, first published in 1977, is a reissue of a trailblazing work; the first textbook of economic history to deal comprehensively with the economic development of the whole continent in this period and to do so from a continental rather than a British perspective. But it is more than...

Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge

The Wasting of the British Economy (Routledge Revivals)

By Sidney Pollard

Series: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1982, this book examines the problem and looks at the causes of the repeated crises which the country has undergone since the war. The basic cause is stated to be the failure to invest in the modernisation of the British capital equipment and the consequent loss of...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge

The Economic Development of Continental Europe 1780-1870

By Alan Milward, S. B. Saul

Series: Routledge Revivals

Upon its initial publication in 1973 this was the first textbook to present a unified view and comprehensive treatment of the economic development of Europe from a continental rather than a British perspective. At the same time, it is more than mere textbook: it is an interpretive analysis of a...

Published July 27th 2011 by Routledge

The Decline of the British Motor Industry (Routledge Revivals)

The Effects of Government Policy, 1945-79

By Peter Dunnett

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1980, this book considers the British motor industry over the period between 1945 and 1979, analysing the ways in which the industry suffered a considerable decline in the post-war era, when compared to motor industries of other countries or to most other British...

Published May 17th 2011 by Routledge

The World Shipping Industry

By Ernst Gabriel Frankel

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1987, this book surveys the state of the world shipping industry worldwide and the problems confronting it. It reviews the expanding role of developing countries in shipping and evaluates the contribution of shipping to development. The changes in the institutional and...

Published February 27th 2011 by Routledge

Urban Dynamics

Designing an Integrated Model

By C.S. Bertuglia

Series: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1990, this work analyses the use of contemporary computer models to simulate urban systems. The work deals with the two significant traditions of model-building: firstly the building of integrated models following the seminal research of Lowry first published in 1964, but...

Published March 8th 2011 by Routledge

History and Society

Essays by R.H. Tawney

By R.H. Tawney

Edited by J.M. Winter

Series: Routledge Revivals

R. H. Tawney believed that the subject of economic history raises questions which touch the fundamental concerns of all thinking people. By setting economic development firmly within the framework of cultural and political life, he provided an alternative to the recent fragmentation of economic...

Published August 28th 2011 by Routledge

The Awakening Giant (Routledge Revivals)

Continuity and Change in Imperial Chemical Industries

By Andrew Pettigrew

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in 1985, this book is about Imperial Chemical Industries’ response to the changing social, political, business and economic environment over the past twenty years. Using personal interviews and archival material, Andrew Pettigrew examines the evolution of business strategy,...

Published March 23rd 2011 by Routledge

People Without Rights (Routledge Revivals)

An Interpretation of the Fundamentals of the Law of Slavery in the U.S. South

By Andrew Fede

Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in September 1992, the book traces the nature and development of the fundamental legal relationships among slaves, masters, and third parties. It shows how the colonial and antebellum Southern judges and legislators accommodated slavery’s social relationships into the common law,...

Published April 14th 2011 by Routledge