Economics

The Oxford Handbook of Banking (4th edition) provides an overview and analysis of developments and research in banking written by leading researche...

This new edition of Civil Engineering: Supervision and Management updates and revises the best practical guide for on-site engineers. Written from ...

Self-Evaluation and Psychotherapy in the Market System examines the ways in which the competitive, hierarchical nature of todays market system cont...

This title was first published in 2000: Steven Nivin analyzes a process vital to economic development - technological change. He furthers understan...

Microeconomics in Context lays out the principles of microeconomics in a manner that is thorough, up to date, and relevant to students. Like its co...

The book is a collection of essays written by scholars of global repute in honour of Professor Sunanda Sen. Each paper is well-researched and offer...

In the past businesses have viewed water as a minimal operational cost and not a strategic issue. However, water has now emerged as a critical issu...

Does the non-farm sector offer new hope for rural Africa? In the face of economic crisis and restructuring across Africa, small-scale enterprise ha...

This title was first published in 2002. This compelling text provides fresh insight into an area that is often touched upon, but rarely examined in...

This title was first published in 2003. This prominent and commanding volume collates the best research available on China's agricultural trade. Cr...

Title first published in 2003. In recognition of the power of organised labour, the ANC Government elected in 1994 granted South Africa's unions un...

In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we fin...

The idea of comparing rewards with others has a long and persistent presence in the social sciences, and can be found in many psychological, social...

Introduction to Statistical Decision Theory: Utility Theory and Causal Analysis provides the theoretical background to approach decision theory fro...

An outstanding work, written to celebrate the seventieth birthday of Jagdish Bhagwati; the foremost defender of free trade and its role in developi...

Power Partnering is a brilliant yet refreshingly simple approach that breaks innovative thinking and acting down into four distinct contexts, allow...

Recently, the issue of inequality has regained attention in economic and political debates. Although this interest is welcome, the debate is still ...

From artificial intelligence to identity theft, from what we once thought of as unshakeable institutions to increasing concerns about privacy and s...

This book provides an overview of Hong Kongs role as an international financial centre, focusing especially on how Hong Kong has contributed signif...

Intermediate Microeconomics: A Tool-Building Approach is a clear and concise calculus-based exposition of current microeconomic theory that is esse...

Does the European Union need closer fiscal integration, and in particular a stronger fiscal centre, to become more resilient to economic shocks? Th...

Slavery helped finance the Industrial Revolution in England. Plantation owners, shipbuilders, and merchants connected with the slave trade accumula...

Community forestry focuses on the link between forest resources and livelihoods and contributes to forest conservation and reforestation. It is wid...

This title was first published in 2001. The dynamics of New Firm Formation (NFF) are central to the phenomenon of economic growth and development. ...

Natural resources management has two principal dimensions : Science-illuminated (earth, space, hydrological, pedological, information, etc. sci...

This title was first published in 2000: Marking the centenary of Seebohm Rowntrees first study of poverty in York, this volume examines the modern ...

During the past 25 years the burden of managing economic policy for competitiveness has devolved to cities and to urban regions. National governmen...

This book provides an updated, concise summary of forecasting air travel demand methodology. It looks at air travel demand forecasting research and...

China faces the problem of collaboration deficiency in local governance of metropolitan areas. With the evolution of regional spatial structure in ...

This book proposes that entrepreneurial practice is often considered an applicable paradigm. An applicable paradigm - which focus too much on plann...

This book looks at the rationale behind the Belt and Road Initiative by China, and attempts to explain the motivation from economical and historica...

Providing human service through markets is inherently problematic. Quality care is critical and unsatisfactory human service greatly influences peo...

Why are some regions and cities so good at attracting talented people, creating high-level knowledge, and producing exciting new ideas and innovati...

Existing literature has looked at many factors which have shaped Chinese pension reforms. As Chinas pension reform proceeds in an expanding and loc...

The book provides new vistas on Karl Marxs political economy, philosophy and politics on the occasion of his 200th birthday.Often using hitherto un...

How do we advance? As individuals, families, and businesses? As societies, nations, and a species? In a world where its said there is nothing new u...