Business & economics / Economics

The Group of Seven: Finance Ministries, Central Banks and Global Financial Governance

by Andrew Baker

We are now in the era of the G8, although the G7 still exists as a grouping for Finance Ministers. Why do G7 finance ministries and central banks co-operate? What are the implications of this co-operation for...

Infrastructure Development in the Asia Pacific Region

by Akira Kohsaka

In the past, undersupply of public infrastructure was blamed for low productivity growth in the United States in the 1970s, while greater private sector participation was emphasized for infrastructure development...

Managing Development: Globalization, Economic Restructuring and Social Policy

by Junji Nakagawa

Globalization in the 1990s provided both opportunities and challenges for developing and transition economies. Though for some, it offered the chance to achieve economic growth through active involvement in...

Small Firms and Innovation Policy in Japan

by Cornelia Storz

This new book discusses the extent to which the Japanese economy encourages entrepreneurship and innovation.

Although Japan has a strong reputation as an innovator, some people argue that this reputation is...

Liberalism against Liberalism: Theoretical Analysis of the Works of Ludwig von Mises and Gary Becker

by Javier Aranzadi

The defence of the market and economic freedom have been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind that the...

Economic Myths and the Mythology of Economics (Routledge Revivals)

by E. J. Mishan

First published in 1986, Economic Myths and the Mythology of Economics is a polemical study in which the author focuses on the popular myths and misconceptions that colour our understanding of economic issues....

The Rhetoric of the Right: Language Change and the Spread of the Market

by David George

This study seeks to demonstrate the subtle ways in which changes in the language associated with economic issues are reflective of a gradual but quantifiable conservative ideological shift.

In this rigorous...

Alternative Theories of Competition: Challenges to the Orthodoxy

by Jamee K. Moudud, Cyrus Bina & Patrick L. Mason

The history of policymaking has been dominated by two rival assumptions about markets. Those who have advocated Keynesian-type policies have generally based their arguments on the claim that markets are imperfectly...

Transport Policy

by Kerry Hamilton

Transport in the European Community is undergoing a new revolution. The completion of the Channel Tunnel and a network of high-speed railways, the expansion of the road system, and the improvement of urban transport...

Routledge Dictionary of Economics

by Donald Rutherford

Compiled to meet the needs of students and professionals in economics, finance, accountancy and business, this wide-ranging, international Dictionary is for everyone who wants an up-to-date resource to the world...

Regional Development through Ecological Business: Unique Cases in Japanese Rural Regions

by Makoto Hirano

Regional disparity is one of the current pressing social issues. Many countries lack basic infrastructures of establishing a new business or industrial cluster. The book argues that existing arguments which have...

Mergers, Acquisitions and Global Empires: Tolerance, Diversity and the Success of M&A

by Ko Unoki

Companies that have acquired other enterprises through mergers and acquisitions (M&A) have in essence become entities that are akin to the global "empires" of history. In this book, the author weaves a unique...

Capitalism at a Dead End: Job Destruction, Overproduction and Crisis in the High-Tech Era

by Fred Goldstein

Explaining how the recent U.S. economic crisis, which quickly spread around the world, marked a turning point in the history of capitalism, this book contends that the system will not bounce back and will not...

George Osborne: The Austerity Chancellor

by Janan Ganesh

George Osborne is the youngest Chancellor of the Exchequer in over a century and the author of the most radical austerity programme since the war. He is also the government’s political brain and a man with...

The Costs of Crime and Justice

by Mark A Cohen

In The Costs of Crime and Justice, Mark Cohen presents a comprehensive view of the financial setbacks of criminal behaviour. Victims of crime might incur medical costs, lost wages and property damage; while...

Management of the National Debt of the United Kingdom 1900-1932

by Jeremy Wormell

This impressive and pioneering work describes and analyses the management of the national debt of the United Kingdom from the Boer War (1899-1902) to the period of the Great Depression in the early 1930s. It...

German Economy in the Twentieth Century

by Hans-Joachim Braun

The twentieth century has seen Germany transformed from imperial monarchy, through Weimar democracy, National Socialist dictatorship, to finally divide into parliamentary democracy in the West and socialist...

Rich and Poor Countries: Consequence of International Economic Disorder

by Javed Ansari & Hans Singer

This 4th edition has been revised to take account of the onset of world recession and the fall in commodity prices that have brought increasing poverty to some of the world's poorest countries.

Japan's Trade Policy: Action or Reaction?

by Yumiko Mikanagi

This book explores the process of policy-making in Japan providing a valuable insight for academics and policy-makers into Japan's massive trade surpluses and the resultant mounting international pressure to...

Alliance Capitalism and Global Business

by Professor John H Dunning & John H. Dunning

John Dunning is the leading authority in the field of international business. His latest work analyses:

* future developments in global business

* a comparison of US and Japanese investment in Europe

* competitiveness,...