Economics, Finance, Business & Industry Books

New and Published Books

1. Technological Change and Network Effects in Growth Regimes

   Exploring the Microfoundations of Economic Growth

   By Torsten Heinrich

   Series: Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics

   In this new volume it is argued that network effects are much more common than usually assumed, and that they have a profound impact on many aspects of economic systems, especially technological change and economic growth. The analysis and modelling of this interrelationship is the central focus of...

   Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Labour-Intensive Industrialization in Global History

   Edited by Gareth Austin, Kaoru Sugihara

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   The prevailing view of industrialization has focussed on technology, capital, entrepreneurship and the institutions that enabled them to be deployed. Labour was often equated with other factors of production, and assigned a relatively passive role. Yet it was labour absorption and the improvement...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
3. Financial Crisis, Labour Markets and Institutions

   Edited by Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book seeks to explain the global financial crisis and its wider economic, political, and social repercussions, arguing that the 2007-9 meltdown was in fact a systemic crisis of the capitalist system. The volume makes these points through the exploration of several key questions: What kind...

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge
4. India’s National Security

   Annual Review 2012

   Edited by Satish Kumar

   Published January 30th 2013 by Routledge India
5. Federalism of Wetlands

   By Ryan Taylor

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies

   This book investigates the consequences of redundant state and federal environmental regulations in the United States. Drawing on the most exhaustive statistical analysis of US federal wetland permits ever constructed, the book uncovers the disjointed world of wetland regulation. The author starts...

   Published January 29th 2013 by Routledge
6. Good Governance, Scale and Power

   A Case Study of North Sea Fisheries

   By Liza Griffin

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   In recent years there have been several alarming predictions about the future of the planet’s fish stocks. As a result, many national governments and supranational institutions, including the European Union, have instituted reforms designed to mitigate the crisis. This book examines the discourse...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
7. Climate Economics

   The State of the Art

   By Frank Ackerman, Elizabeth Stanton

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   Climate science paints a bleak picture: The continued growth of greenhouse gas emissions is increasingly likely to cause irreversible and catastrophic effects. Urgent action is needed to prepare for the initial rounds of climatic change, which are already unstoppable. While the opportunity to avert...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
8. Chinese Family Business and the Equal Inheritance System

   Unravelling the Myth

   By Victor Zheng

   Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

   This book disputes the traditional argument that the equal inheritance system hinders the growth of Chinese family business, approaching this not only in terms of economic capital, but also in terms of human capital such as education and leadership, and social networks. Zheng argues that most of...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
9. The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia

   Inheritance of Loss

   By Susan Engel

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   This book explores the history, structure and current operations of the World Bank, which despite being the largest development organisation and the largest development research body in the world with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing economies, has rarely received the critical...

   Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge
10. China, Oil and Global Politics

    By Philip Andrews-Speed, Roland Dannreuther

    Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series

    China’s rapid economic growth has led to a huge increase in its domestic energy needs. This book provides a critical overview of how China’s growing need for oil imports is shaping its international economic and diplomatic strategy and how this affects global political relations and behaviour....

    Published January 28th 2013 by Routledge