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1. Transport Economics

   Edited by David Hensher

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   An effective transport infrastructure—and its associated services—are widely regarded as key components of an efficient, equitable, and sustainable society. But the link between transport provision (especially car ownership) and growing global levels of, for example, social exclusion, congestion,...

   Published October 25th 2011 by Routledge
2. Urban and Regional Economics

   Edited by Philip McCann

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   Urban and regional economics encompasses both the economics of geography and spatial economics to focus on the growth, behaviour, and economic performance of cities and regions. Over the last two decades, urban and regional economics has grown dramatically—both as a taught subject and as an active...

   Published September 7th 2011 by Routledge
3. Economic Reform in Modern China

   Edited by Wei Zhang

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   It is more than three decades since China initiated its economic reform and open-door policies. During that period, China has successfully transformed itself from an inefficient centrally-planned economy to a fast-growing market-orientated economy. To the rest of the world, China has emerged from...

   Published May 26th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Great Depression

   Edited by Geoffrey E. Wood, Forrest Capie

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   The Great Depression had a devastating effect on much of the world’s developed economies. (For example, at its nadir, around one-quarter of the US workforce was unemployed. And, in Britain, exports virtually halved by 1933 as international trade collapsed.) The political and cultural consequences...

   Published November 15th 2010 by Routledge
5. Agricultural Economics

   Edited by Gail L. Cramer

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   The application of the principles of economics to the production of crops and livestock—and to land usage more generally—is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study, and this new four-volume collection in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Economics, meets...

   Published October 5th 2010 by Routledge
6. Twentieth-Century Economic History

   Edited by Lars Magnusson

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   The study of economic phenomena over time is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study, and this new four-volume collection in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Economics, meets the need for an authoritative, up-to-date, and comprehensive reference work...

   Published June 8th 2010 by Routledge
7. Islamic Banking and Finance

   Edited by Amer al-Roubaie, Shafiq Alvi

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   Islamic banking refers to a financial system which is consistent with principles of Islamic law (or ‘sharia’) and guided by Islamic economics. In particular, Islamic law prohibits ‘riba’ or usury, the collection and payment of interest. Additionally, Islamic law prohibits investing in businesses...

   Published May 13th 2010 by Routledge
8. Feminist Economics

   Edited by Drucilla Barker, Edith Kuiper

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   Edited by a leading scholar in the field, this is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Economics. It is a four-volume collection of historical and contemporary work in the flourishing field of feminist economics, an innovative and dynamic area of scholarship that...

   Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
9. Feminist Economics

   Edited by Drucilla Barker

   Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

   Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
10. Public Sector Economics

    Edited by Richard W. Tresch

    Series: Critical Concepts in Economics

    How does government taxing and spending affect an economy, and how can we determine whether government policies promote a society’s economic objectives? What economic activities should governments undertake? Should they do less? How should an optimal tax system be designed? What information is...

    Published October 5th 2009 by Routledge