Economics

The exceptional weakness of the American labor movement has often been attributed to the successful resistance of American employers to unionizatio...

How often do working-class children obtain college degrees and then pursue professional careers? Conversely, how frequently do the children of doct...

A multi-disciplinary overview providing new theories, critical analyses and the latest reasearch on this very fashionable topic. Includes chapters ...

The Japanese presence in Southeast Asia is treated variously with either suspicion or encouragement. Japan and Malaysian Development critically ass...

This volume deals with a range of contemporary issues in Indian and other world economies, with a focus on economic theory and policy and their lon...

A Different Vision: Race and Public Policy, Volume 2 brings together for the first time the ideas, philosophies and interpretations of North Ameri...

Liu Shucheng is a famous Chinese economist who has a major impact on the study of China's macroeconomics and quantitative economics. Selecting some...

Today we often look to our leaders in business, government, or the social sector, to make effective decisions in a complex world. Whether they are ...

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

A major force in East Asia's remarkable economic growth and industrial transformation, foreign direct investment has been growing at 14?15 percent ...

In an increasingly globalised world manifested in greater economic integration, human capital is an important factor. One of the key sources of hum...

Russell provides a groundbreaking critique of the orthodox position on the nature of New Deal reforms as well as an innovative analysis of the unra...

Understand the dynamics of East-West relationships in business to make better decisionsThe Eastern expansion of the European Union has increased in...

The Economics of Time and Ignorance is one of the seminal works in modern Austrian economics. Its treatment of historical time and of uncertainty h...

What are the forces that are driving firms and industries to globalize their operations? This volume explores how specific industries have organize...

With global concerns over rising oil prices, this book examines the major issues facing the economies of the Arab Gulf today, covering all six of t...

In the mid-nineteenth century the business cycle was increasingly recognised as a recurrent phenomenon. This edition contains key texts from the ra...

As the Indian economy integrates into global circuits of production, exchange and accumulation, the burdens of adjustment are shared unequally by d...

The relations between Turkey and Germany deserve to be called unique because of their depth and extent. This book offers an interdisciplinary appro...

In this age of globalization, countries and corporations are under increasing pressure to adopt and follow international labor standards. This book...

Doctrines of Development sets out a critique of the idea of practice of development by exploring the history of development theory and action from ...

Economics is often accused of being "a-ethical"--lacking a moral perspective--if not altogether immoral. Its detractors criticize economic models o...

This short book introduces the main ideas of statistical inference in a way that is both user friendly and mathematically sound. Particular emphasi...

This supplementary volume to Beveridge’s important work Voluntary Action sets out some of the important material on which the Report is based, and ...

In a small, locally owned Trinidadian factory that produces household goods, 80 percent of the line workers are women, almost all black or East Ind...

A comprehensive study highlighting gender differences in the forces that propel international migrations

As the linchpin of the global financial system, the International Monetary Fund provides the balance of payments support, chiefly to developing cou...

This volume comprises selected papers presented at the 12th Winter School on Stochastic Processes and their Applications, which was held in Siegmun...

Banking on Knowledge is one of the first studies of how the World Bank is reinventing itself as the 'Knowledge Bank'. The book addresses how intern...

This study assesses income and poverty effects of vegetable commercialization in Kenya with a special focus on gender issues and evaluates the perf...

For much of the second half of the twentieth century, the Asian economic "miracle" has fueled the greatest expansion of wealth for the largest popu...

An annual prize is awarded for the best paper appearing in Accounting Education: an international journal, and this book contains the prize-winning...

Originally published in 1970; with a second edition in 1989. Empirical Bayes methods use some of the apparatus of the pure Bayes approach, but an a...

Originally published in 1981, Woman’s Worth takes up the challenge to the male preserve of economics – which was raised nearly a century ago by Cha...

Handbook of Empirical Economics and Finance explores the latest developments in the analysis and modeling of economic and financial data. Well-reco...

This study, first published in 1996, investigates the effects that local labor market conditions may have on the economic status of women and black...

Exit from Globalization moves from theory to practice: from questions of where incorrigible knowledge of substantive economic life derives and how ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has driven businesses to adopt new business practices rapidly, enhance product development and services, has helped to...

This book discusses the idea that there is a specific Islamic form of entrepreneurship. Based on extensive original research amongst small and medi...

The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and ...

The new and updated edition of this widely used text is equally useful for undergraduate and graduate students of international business. Its stude...

Employers Can Reduce Their Employees' Health Care Costs by Thinking Out of The BoxEmployee health care costs have skyrocketed, especially for small...

'Business Economics: Theory and Application' is an undaunting and accessible text that focuses on the real world of business and how this relates t...

Project Skills describes the best of the accepted project management techniques, taking the guesswork out of deciding which ones to apply at which ...