Macroeconomics 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. Monetary Policy and Central Banking in the Middle East and North Africa

   Edited by David Cobham, Ghassan Dibeh

   Series: Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa

   This book examines monetary policy, central banking and exchange rate regimes in the Middle East and North Africa. Part I covers central banking and monetary policy, while Part II covers monetary policy and exchange rate regimes. Some chapters focus on the monetary frameworks of particular...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Macroeconomic and Monetary Policy Issues in Indonesia

   By Akhand Akhtar Hossain

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   Following the acquisition of its sovereignty from the Netherlands in 1949, Indonesia experienced serious economic and political problems during the 1950s and 1960s, before entering a three-decade-long period of rapid economic growth. Hard-hit by the financial crisis of the late 1990s, Indonesia...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. International Business in China

   Understanding the Global Economic Crisis

   Edited by Robert Taylor

   This book deals with a number of contentious issues in Chinese management as China emerges as a global economic player, with a greater role in international business during a global economic crisis. This step is in tandem with an economically driven foreign policy. Since the 1980s, Chinese...

   Published May 13th 2012 by Routledge
5. Economic Co-Operation in the Gulf

   Issues in the Economies of the Arab Gulf Co-Operation Council States

   By Badr El Din A. Ibrahim

   Series: Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Economies

   With global concerns over rising oil prices, this book examines the major issues facing the economies of the Arab Gulf today, covering all six of the Arab Gulf Cooperation Council (AGCC) states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Providing a detailed account...

   Published May 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. China's Climate Policy

   By Gang Chen

   Series: China Policy Series

   To understand China’s climate change policy is not easy, as the country itself is a paradox actor in global climate political economy: it used to take very suspicious stand on the scientific certainty of climate change, but recently it has become a signatory and firm supporter of the...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
7. Multinational Corporations and European Regional Systems of Innovation

   By John Cantwell, Simona Iammarino

   Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition

   In globalising economies, particularly those going through a process of economic integration such as those economies within the EU, regions forge an increasing number of linkages with other locations within and across national borders. This is largely carried out by the technological efforts of...

   Published April 30th 2012 by Routledge
8. Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy

   A Keynesian Perspective

   By Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Reiner Franke, Willi Semmler

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   The financial instability and its spillover to the real sector have become a great challenge to macro-economic theory. The book takes a Keynesian theoretical perspective, representing an attempt to revive what Keynes stressed in his General Theory, namely the role of the financial market in...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
9. Environment and Employment

   A Reconciliation

   Edited by Philip Lawn

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   Mounting evidence suggests that GDP growth is damaging the natural environment and unlikely to be ecologically sustainable in the long-run. At the same time, an annual GDP growth rate of around three percent is regarded as the minimum necessary to prevent unemployment from escalating. Clearly, a...

   Published April 19th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Soviet Middle East (Routledge Revivals)

    A Model for Development?

    By Alec Nove, J. A. Newth

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    First published in 1967, The Soviet Middle East provides an analysis of the economic and political status of the national republics of Central Asia and Transcaucasia, which were, at the time of the book’s initial publication, a part of the Soviet Union. The authors analyse their economic...

    Published April 18th 2012 by Routledge