Business & economics / Economics

Industrial Economic Regulation: A Framework and Exploration

by Roger Sugden

Leading industrial economists focus on the processes by which governments in market economies take actions to influence economic activity in firms and industries. They examine the basis of regulation, assessing...

Joseph A. Schumpeter: Historian of Economics: Perspectives on the History of Economic Thought

by Laurence S. Moss

Joseph A. Schumpeter was one of the great economists of the twentieth century. His History of Economic Analsyis is perhaps the greatest contribution to the history of economics, providing a magisterial account...

History of Environmental Economic Thought

by Erhun Kula

This volume presents the ideas of major figures in economics throughout history on key environmental issues such as population growth, resource scarcity and environmental contamination. Throughout, the historical...

Global Restructuring of the Steel Industry

by Anthony D'Costa

Drawing upon case studies of the steel industry in the US, Japan, South Korea, Brazil and India, this book explains how and why the steel industry has shifted from advanced capitalist countries to late industrializing...

Rice: The Primary Commodity

by A.J.H. Latham

Rice: The Primary Commodity de-mystifies the trade, outlines its workings and the problems which confront it.

A.J. Latham outlines the history and cultivation of rice, and the research programmes which have done...

Labour Market Efficiency in the European Union: Employment Protection and Fixed Term Contracts

by Thomas Kruppe, Ralf Rogowski & Klaus Schömann

The deregulation of labour law in the European Union was thought to be a spur to lasting growth of employment and an increase in labour market efficiency. This book reveals that the results of such policies...

The Theory of the Individual in Economics: Identity and Value

by John B Davis

The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy. All strands of thought at heart come down to a particular theory of the individual. Economics, though, is guilty of taking this...

The Accumulation of Capital

by Rosa Luxemburg

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group...

Private Sector After Communism

by Jan Winiecki, Vladimir Banacek & Mihaly Laki

The transformation of state-owned enterprises into privately owned ones is commonly referred to as 'privatization'. Just as important as this process, though sometimes not given the attention it deserves and...

Rediscovering Sustainability: Economics of the Finite Earth

by A.R.G. Heesterman & W.H. Heesterman

This thought-provoking book summarises the present sustainability predicament and maps out financial and economic strategies. Rediscovering Sustainability helps bridge the gap in understanding between scientists...

Urban and Regional Development Trajectories in Contemporary Capitalism

by Flavia Martinelli, Frank Moulaert & Andreas Novy

This book re-evaluates a rich scientific heritage of space- and history-sensitive development theories and produces an integrated methodology for the comparative analysis of urban and regional trajectories within...

Gender and the European Labour Market

by Francesca Bettio, Janneke Plantenga & Mark Smith

The book presents state of the art research on women's current position in European labour markets. It combines analysis of the latest trends in employment, occupational segregation, working time, unpaid work,...

Widening Income Distribution in Post-Handover Hong Kong

by Hon-Kwong Lui

Before the handover to China in 1997, Hong Kong's economic growth was very strong and the unemployment rate dropped to a record low of 2.2 per cent. In recent years, the widening income dispersion in Hong Kong...

The Aig Story

by Maurice R. Greenberg & Lawrence A. Cunningham

Selected as one of Motley Fool’s  "5 Great Books You Should Read"

In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham...

The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable

by James Owen Weatherall

A young scholar tells the story of the physicists and mathematicians who created the models that have become the basis of modern finance and argues that these models are the solution to—not the source of—our...

EXERGY: Energy, Environment and Sustainable Development

by Ibrahim Dincer & Marc A. Rosen

This book deals with exergy and its applications to various energy systems and applications as a potential tool for design, analysis and optimization, and its role in minimizing and/or eliminating environmental...

The Leaderless Economy: Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It

by Peter Temin & David Vines

The Leaderless Economy reveals why international financial cooperation is the only solution to today's global economic crisis. In this timely and important book, Peter Temin and David Vines argue that our current...

Awkward Embrace: The United States and China in the 21st Century

by Daniel Blumenthal & Phillip Swagel

In Awkward Embrace, Phillip Swagel applies his experience at the Treasury Department to show the reader why America’s economic relationship with China has been a beneficial one and details what needs to happen...

"The Law," "The State," and Other Political Writings, 1843-1850

by Frederic Bastiat

Frédéric Bastiat was a keen observer and analyst of political and economic problems and a passionate proponent of liberal economic theory. “The Law,” “The State,” and Other Political Writings (1843–1850),...

Monetary and Economic Policy Problems Before, During, and After the Great War

by Ludwig Von Mises

The present volume is devoted to some of Mises's earliest writings. As with the second volume in the series, the articles that compose this book include Mises's policy memoranda, essays, and speeches that were...