Economics

The clash of cultures, coupled with rapid technological advances, seems to be pushing us in paradoxical directions. On the one hand, the world seem...

Transportation Network Companies and Taxis: The Case of Seattle is a modern economic case history and thorough analysis of the devastating impact o...

There is a striking scarcity of work conducted on rural labour markets in the developing world, particularly in Africa. This book aims to fill this...

Karl Popper and Friedrich von Hayek are remembered as two of the twentieth centurys greatest proponents of open society. However, over the years, H...

Rising as a global power and regarding the existing world order unjust and unreasonable enough to meet the interests of both itself and other emerg...

This title was first published in 2003. Most European cities have experienced problems in certain neighbourhoods that are termed deprived or exclu...

The theory of costs is a cornerstone of economic thinking, and figures crucially in the study of human action and society. From the first day of a ...

This book examines artists engagements with design and architecture since the 1980s, and asks what they reveal about contemporary capitalist produc...

The British referendum on continuing membership of the European Union (EU) in June 2016 represented a turning point in the relationship between the...

Henry Hellers short account of the history of capitalism combines Marxs economic and political thought with contemporary scholarship to shed light ...

Executive search, headhunting, is now one of the archetypal new knowledge intensive professional services, as well as a labor market intermediary b...

Thomas Piketty is a fine example of an evaluative thinker. In Capital in the Twenty-First Century, he not only provides detailed and sustained expl...

Milton Friedman was arguably the single most influential economist of the 20th-century. His influence, particularly on conservative politics in Ame...

Strategic Management in Public Organizations: European Practices and Perspectives offers the first wide-ranging survey and assessment of strategic ...

The integration of renewable energy resources into the electricity grid presents an important challenge. This book provides a review and analysis o...

Amartya Sen uses his 1999 work Development as Freedom to evaluate the processes and outcomes of economic development. Having come to the conclusion...

Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a countrys economic organization and its corporate governance system. Mo...

In the last decade, nonunion employee representation (NER) has become a much discussed topic in the fields of human resource management, employment...

Friedrich Hayeks 1944 Road to Serfdom is a classic of conservative economic argument. While undeniably a product of a specific time in global polit...

This volume compares the planning of economic conditions under the very different political systems of Soviet Russia, Fascist Germany and Italy and...

Originally written as a series of pamphlets and at a time of high unemployment, this volume discusses free trade, monetary policy, wages and employ...

This title was first published in 2001. John Kirton, Joseph Daniels and Andreas Freytag present an indispensable and authoritative collection of pa...

Across Europe there is a rapidly changing context for undertaking regional development. In the 20th century, development of the former planned econ...

This title was first published in 2002: Analyzing labour market trends in sub-Saharan Africa since 1970, this volume employs data collected from th...

The working poor of the world are observed to engage in long hours in hard jobs and to work more if wages are further reduced. Mainstream economics...

Facilities Management sets out a new framework for the discipline of facilities management which challenges many of the norms and which sets out ne...

This title was first published in 2003. In this volume of essays - based on papers delivered to 2001 conference, International Banking and Financia...

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, the viability of globalised financial capitalism was called into question. The resulting fear and uncer...

Following drastic shifts in the spatial organization of goods production, increasingly fierce competition now forces firms also to look critically ...

In the new economy where value drivers are shifting from tangible to intangibles resources, brands are the most familiar asset. They are well known...

Global diversity and inclusion management practice is in a state of arrested development. Leaders and practitioners are caught in grooves which are...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of central banks, and aims to demystify them for the general public, which is the only way to have a rati...

This book combines the human development approach and innovation economics in order to explore the effects that structural economic change has on h...

Adam Smiths contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his ...

Regional associations have become major players in international politics and economics. The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), composed of Russia, Kaz...

The four worlds as we know them today, the North, West, South and East, are out of balance. The West and the North generally dominate on a global s...