Economic Theory & Philosophy

Originally published in 1989 this book gives an overview of the empirical work on new technology objectives, together with an analysis of managemen...

Over the past several years, productivity improvement has become an increasingly vital economic issue for economies and individual firms. This book...

Introducing the main theories of distributional justice the book covers utilitarianism and welfare economics, moving on to Rawls's social contract ...

As the world grapples with increased globalization and technological change, Friedrich List’s work appears more relevant than ever before. His theo...

This study, first published in 1979, analysed the international trend towards "industrial democracy" in the industrial relations practices in Europ...

Originally published in 1983, this comparative study of day-to-day industrial relations in two closely matched factories in Britain and Germany, th...

Shmanske and Kahane have brought together nearly all of the important authors in the quickly growing field of Sports Economics to contribute chapte...

In many European countries, the process of financialisation has been exacerbated by the project of closer EU integration and accelerated as a resul...

Prices permeate contemporary life. From the cost of basic foodstuffs in developing countries to the pay of CEOs in rich ones, the question of the p...

This book is a series of vignettes about changes to Australian institutions, organisations and systems that have significantly improved economic an...

In this thought-provoking book, well known economists Kurz and Salvadori cover original findings and new vistas on old problems. They cover: altern...

The phenomenon of entrepreneurship has attracted researchers from a variety of disciplines and a diverse number of analytical approaches. Currently...

The global financial crisis of 2008 was resolved over the course of two years after the collapse of the US housing bubble, but the world economy di...

To properly understand the nature of the digital economy we need to investigate the phenomenon of a "ubiquitous computing system" (UCS). As defined...

Alternative strategies of economic development have received little attention in the literature. Academics rarely compare certain strategic feature...

At a time when both scholars and the public demand explanations and answers to key economic problems that conventional approaches have failed to re...

This book addresses the functioning of financial markets, in particular the financial market model, and modelling. More specifically, the book prov...

This volume celebrates the innovative and rapidly growing area of economic research known as meta-regression analysis (MRA). Shows how MRA enab...

The emerging conflict between the US and China has an inherent tendency towards a development of deglobalization. It is the historical prerequisite...

Examining the innovations of economic policy in the UK, France and Germany in the 1960s, this book originally published in 1968, assesses the degre...

This book, originally published in 1977, is a comparative study of worker participation in France, Belgium, Luxembourg and Britain. The first part ...

Stephen Shmanske and Leo Kahane have brought together nearly all of the important authors in the quickly growing field of Sports Economics to contr...

The second edition of Behavioral Economics: The Basics summarizes behavioral economics, which uses insights from the social sciences, especially ps...

The book presents a high-impact re-reading of core topics in the Marx and Marxist debates including: value theory, the commodity nature of money, c...