Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy

   Choices, Constraints and Opportunities in the Market Economy

   By Morris Altman

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book provides a theoretical framework to better understand how firms, economies and labor markets have evolved. This is done in a reader-friendly fashion, without complex mathematical arguments and proofs. Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy shows how high wage economies help make firms...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Capability Approach

   Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Edited by Francesca Panzironi, Katharine Gelber

   Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

   This book provides a unique laboratory of ‘capabilities in practice’ in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the application of the capability approach in development practice and public policy from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Economics of Climate Change and the Change of Climate in Economics

   Edited by Kevin Maréchal

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   Climate change is without question the single most important issue the world faces over the next hundred years. The most recent scientific data have led to the conclusion that the globally averaged net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming and that continued greenhouse gas...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
4. Economic Geography

   By William P. Anderson

   Economic geographers study and attempt to explain the spatial configuration of economic activities, including the production of goods and services, their transfer from one economic agent to another and their transformation into utility by consumers. The spatial configuration, which includes both...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
5. Routledge Handbook of World-Systems Analysis

   Edited by Salvatore Babones, Christopher Chase-Dunn

   Series: Routledge International Handbooks

   World-systems analysis has developed rapidly over the past thirty years. Today's students and junior scholars come to world-systems analysis as a well-established approach spanning all of the social sciences. The best world-systems scholarship, however, is spread across multiple methodologies and...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
6. The Microfinance Impact

   By Ranjula Bali Swain

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   Financial inclusion through microfinance has become a powerful force in improving the living conditions of poor farmers, rural non-farm enterprises and other vulnerable groups. In its unique ability to link the existing extensive network of India’s rural bank branches with the Self Help Groups (SHG...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
7. The Global Economic Crisis and the Developing World

   Implications and Prospects for Recovery and Growth

   Edited by Ashwini Deshpande, Keith Nurse

   Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics

   The world economy is currently in the throes of a global economic crisis reminiscent of the great depressions of the 1930s and the 1870s. As back then, the crisis has exposed the major structural imbalances in financial and credit markets in addition to global trade forcing many governments,...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
8. Environmental Finance and Development

   By Sanja Tišma, Ana Maria Boromisa, Ana Pavičić Kaselj

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   This book focuses on environmental financing in the process of alignment with the EU. Based on comparative analysis of national environmental strategies and financial needs, and their links with strategic development documents in five selected countries (Bulgaria, Romania, Slovenia, Croatia,...

   Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Manufacturing Enterprise in Asia

   Size Structure and Economic Growth

   By Dipak Mazumdar, Sandip Sarkar

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Issues relating to the size of firms in manufacturing are central to the discussion of development strategies. This book offers an interpretation of growth trajectories in selected Asian economies in terms of the size-structure of enterprises in the manufacturing sector of these economies. The book...

   Published May 22nd 2012 by Routledge
10. Social Networks, Innovation and the Knowledge Economy

    Edited by Isabel Salavisa, Margarida Fontes

    Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

    In this book, the authors illustrate how social networks can play a very significant role in the technological catch up process in moderate innovative countries. Using an innovative approach to the study of entrepreneurship in knowledge-intensive sectors, the book analyses the role of...

    Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge