Economics, Finance, Business & Industry Handbooks

New and Published Handbooks

1. Handbook of Test Security

   Edited by James A. Wollack, John J. Fremer

   High stakes tests are the gatekeepers to many educational and professional goals. As such, the incentive to cheat is high. This Handbook is the first to offer insights from experts within the testing community, psychometricians, and policymakers to identify and develop best practice guidelines for...

   Published March 25th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education

   Edited by Larisa V. Shavinina

   The Routledge International Handbook of Innovation Education is the international reference work on innovation education and potentially opens an entirely new direction in education. The overall goal of the handbook is to address the question of how to develop innovators in general and how to...

   Published March 24th 2013 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication

   Edited by Paul M. Pedersen

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Sport Communication is the only book to offer a fully comprehensive and in-depth survey of the contemporary discipline of sport communication. It explores communication within, through, and for sport in all its theoretical, conceptual, cultural, behavioral, practical and...

   Published March 13th 2013 by Routledge
4. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private Partnerships

   Edited by Piet de Vries, Etienne B. Yehoue

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   A public-private partnership (PPP) is a contractual arrangement with appropriate risk sharing between public and private partners for the delivery of public infrastructure or services, which is intended to create value-for-money to the taxpayer. The Routledge Companion to Public-Private...

   Published February 25th 2013 by Routledge
5. Routledge Handbook of Major Events in Economic History

   Edited by Randall Parker, Robert Whaples

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Handbook of Major Events in Economic History aims to introduce readers to the important macroeconomic events of the past two hundred years. The chapters endeavour to explain what went on and why during the most significant economic epochs of the nineteenth, twentieth and early...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
6. Routledge Handbook of Media Law

   Edited by Monroe Price, Stefaan Verhulst, Libby Morgan

   Featuring specially commissioned chapters from experts in the field of media and communications law, this book provides an authoritative survey of media law from a comparative perspective. The handbook does not simply offer a synopsis of the state of affairs in media law jurisprudence, rather it&...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History

   Edited by Robert Whaples, Randall Parker

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   The Routledge Handbook of Modern Economic History aims to introduce readers to important approaches and findings of economic historians who study the modern world. Its short chapters reflect the most up-to-date research and are written by well-known economic historians who are authorities on their...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Routledge Companion to Identity and Consumption

   Edited by Ayalla A. Ruvio, Russell W. Belk

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   "Tell me what you eat, I'll tell you who you are," said Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Today, "You are what you consume" is more apt. Barbara Krueger’s ironic twist of Descartes - "I shop therefore I am" - has lost its irony. Such phrases have become commonplace descriptions of our identity in the...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption

   Edited by Russell W. Belk, Rosa Llamas

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   The first generation that has grown up in a digital world is now in our university classrooms. They, their teachers and their parents have been fundamentally affected by the digitization of text, images, sound, objects and signals. They interact socially, play games, shop, read, write, work,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State

    Edited by Bent Greve

    Series: Routledge International Handbooks

    ‘The welfare state’ in all its many forms has had a profound role in many countries around the world since at least the Second World War. The Routledge Handbook of the Welfare State explores the classical issues around the welfare state, but also investigates its key concepts, along with how these...

    Published November 22nd 2012 by Routledge