Economics, Finance, Business & Industry Paperbacks

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1. Economic Prospects - East and West (Routledge Revivals)

   A View from the East

   By Jan Winiecki

   First published in 1987, this is an analysis of the contemporary breakdown of political and economic systems within the Eastern European communist countries. Rather than passively following the developments of this crisis, the author seeks instead to identify the reasons for failure and to examine...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. 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
3. French Accounting History

   New Contributions

   Edited by Yves Levant, Olivier de la Villarmois

   French Accounting History: New Contributions illustrates the lively research activity in the field of accounting and management history in France, thus contributing to the dissemination of French research on an international scale. Based on a collection of diverse papers by French historians in...

   Published May 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Origins of Economic Thought in Modern Japan

   By Chuhei Sugiyama

   By throwing light on economic thought in the period of the Japanese Enlightenment, this book will make clear what led to the institutionalization of business and economic education, the birth of the pioneer business enterprise and of serious economic journalism and the reasons behind the success of...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Ephemeral Civilization

   Exploding the Myth of Social Evolution

   By Graeme Snooks

   The Ephemeral Civilization is an astonishing intellectual feat in which Graeme Snooks develops an original and ground-breaking analysis of changing sociopolitical forms over the past 3,000 years. Snooks challenges the prevailing theories of social evolutionism with an innovative approach which also...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Americanisation of European Business

   Edited by Ove Bjarnar, Matthias Kipping

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Business History

   This book examines the mechanisms and channels through which American managerial know-how and US management models were transferred to Europe after 1945, as well as the actual influence on European industries, companies and regions in the 1950s and 1960s. It explores the role of the European...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
7. Going Multinational

   The Korean Experience of Direct Investment

   Edited by Frédérique Sachwald

   Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

   At the beginning of the 1990s, Korean firms embarked on an impressive wave of direct investment abroad. This dramatic multinationalization was considered as yet another sign of Korea's remarkable economic performance, especially as a high proportion of the foreign ventures were located in advanced...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
8. Friedrich Engels

   Young Revolutionary

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
9. Structural Adjustment, the Environment and Sustainable Development

   By David Reed

   Series: Environmental and Resource Economics Set

   This is a pioneering study which should serve as a model for future research and will to a wide audience' Dharam Ghai, Director United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Structural Adjustment and the Environment (Earthscan, 1992) was the first book to fully examine the effects of '...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
10. Critical Path Analysis in Practice

    Collected papers on project control

    Edited by Gail Thornley

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have...

    Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge