Economics

Quantitative Methods for Finance and Investments ensures that readers come away from reading it with a reasonable degree of comfort and proficiency...

This book explores how culture shapes foreign economic policy in post-Soviet states. After the Soviet empire fragmented, some of the newly emerged ...

A Course in Monetary Economics is an insightful introduction to advanced topics in monetary economics. Accessible to students who have mastered the...

Arguing that the ultimate resource is the human imagination coupled to the human spirit, Julian Simon led a vigorous challenge to conventional beli...

Published originally in 1990 to critical acclaim, Robert Wade's Governing the Market quickly established itself as a standard in contemporary polit...

The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership - the Barcelona Process - aims to create integration in the Mediterranean Basin so as to encourage economic deve...

Game theory, the formalized study of strategy, began in the 1940s by asking how emotionless geniuses should play games, but ignored until recently ...

The book gives practical instruction and guidance in the use of accounting for effective control and higher profit in hotel and catering operations...

Today neoliberals argue that we should let ourselves be guided by market forces and that there is little we can do to stem the flow of economic glo...

This volume is about the emerging development trajectories of rural labour relations in India, based on studies from its regions and states. Its ov...

The global financial crisis of 1997-8 revealed that emerging market nations as well as the developed economies are vulnerable to the forces of glob...

This introductory textbook examines the role of the Third World and the processes of development from the study of international politics and argue...

Traditionally, economists have attributed consistency and rational calculation to the action of ‘economic man’. In a powerful challenge to orthodox...

The tasks of macroeconomics are to interpret observations on economic aggregates in terms of the motivations and constraints of economic agents and...

Perspectives on Las Américas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcati...

This concise and timely book, written by one of the world's leading authorities on China, argues that the country is at a crossroads in its develop...

Governance in the global economy is a topic of enormous importance. Despite the triumph of free trade, many actors still try to protect important s...

Global Backlash is the first book to move beyond the monolithic portrayal of the globalization protests that have escalated since Seattle and are n...

Investors have too often extrapolated from recent experience. In the 1950s, who but the most rampant optimist would have dreamt that over the next ...

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the nature and impact of globalization, as well as an original analysis focusing on economic inter...

In this thought-provoking new book, Anthony Smith analyses key debates between historians and social scientists on the role of nations and national...

This book surveys recent developments in the rapidly expanding field of asymptotic distribution theory, placing special emphasis on the problems of...

This introduction will serve as a 'first stop' for those interested in Japan, its role in the Pacific Asian region and, in turn, that region's role...