Economics

The popular perception of globalisation is rooted in its image of dissolving senses of distance and boundaries. It is so preoccupied with the techn...

This edited volume addresses the 2007/2009 financial crisis as the occasion to engage critically with the corpus of Susan Strange’s work, in order ...

Presents the author's alternative monetary theory and macroeconomics to both the quality theory and Keynes's work. This text reveals Means's view o...

Following Grawe's seminal first book, this volume answers the question: How can a college or university prepare for forecasted demographic disrupti...

Most people believe capitalism is a compromise with selfish human nature. As Adam Smith put it, "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the...

This book provides a first-hand account of business analytics and its implementation, and an account of the brief theoretical framework underpinnin...

Now in its fourth edition, Finance: The Basics is a clear and practical introduction to the world of finance. It thoroughly explains essential fina...

First published in 1990, International Bond Markets analyses how the markets in public-sector debt have developed and how they operate in a number ...

"Stop slacking off!"Your parents may have said this to you when you were deep into a video-gaming marathon. Or maybe your roommate said it to you w...

John Maynard Keynes expected that around the year 2030 people would only work 15 hours a week. In the mid-1960s, Jean Fourastié still anticipated t...

Italian cinema triumphed globally in the 1960, with directors such as Rossellini, Fellini, and Leone, and actors like Sophia Loren and Marcello Mas...

The world is dealing with a historical turning point. The old ways of doing things do not seem to suffice anymore. Solutions aiming at permanent an...

Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and...

In the completely revised second edition of this highly praised book, Susumu Yabuki, one of Japan's leading China experts, and Stephen M. Harner, A...

Do professions really place duty to society above clients' or their own interests? If not, how can they be trusted? While some public relations (PR...

Site of the world's busiest and most lucrative harbor throughout the first half of the twentieth century, the Port of New York was also the histori...

Written over a period of twenty years the papers included here reflect the changing circumstances around the study of accounting history.

This core textbook is the definitive overview of the Japanese economy. It charts its history from the period before the Meiji restoration and its a...

One of the most original and prolific economists of the twentieth century, Joan Robinson (1903–83) is widely regarded as the most important woman i...

This book, first published in 1978, provides an analysis of British monetary policy and considers what techniques of monetary control were most app...

The essays in this edited collection, first published in 1986, focus on important debates surrounding the central Marxian problem of the transforma...

Against a background of extraordinary growth in the popularity of betting and gaming across many countries of the world, there has never been a gre...

This volume empirically investigates different issues of public sector economics. It covers country groups as diverse as the OECD and developing/em...

In Development as Freedom Amartya Sen quotes the eighteenth century poet William Cowper on freedom: Freedom has a thousand charms to show, That...

“This work is a profound and fundamental contribution to the issues addressed.”—Sociology  “Vital to an understanding of peasant politics.”—Library...

Frank Machovec argues that the assumption of perfect information has done untold economic damage. It has provided the rationale for active state in...

The last decades have witnessed a significant shift in policy competencies away from central governments in Europe. The reallocation of competencie...

Adam Smith's name has become synonymous with free market economics; The Wealth of Nations is taken as the definitive account of the benefits of fre...

Unequivocal Justice challenges the prevailing view within political philosophy that broadly free market regimes are inconsistent with the basic pri...

The international financial community blamed the Asian crisis of 1997–1998 on deep failures of domestic financial governance. To avoid similar cris...

The struggle for world leadership between China and the United States, resulting in Russia's war with Ukraine, among other things, underscores the ...

Social Marketing shows how marketing techniques can be used to social ends and tackle the immense challenges humankind faces. Social inequalities h...

Examine the costs and benefits of fiscal wars between Brazilian statesLatin American Business examines Brazil’s use of fiscal incentives to attract...

The Handbook of Gender and Work provides a comprehensive overview and synthesis of the literature and knowledge about gender and work. It equips th...