International Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
2. The 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
3. The History of Bankruptcy

   Economic, Social and Cultural Implications in Early Modern Europe

   Edited by Thomas Max Safley

   Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

   This volume takes up bankruptcy in early modern Europe, when its frequency made it not only an economic problem but a personal tragedy and a social evil. Using legal, business and personal records, the essays in this volume examine the impact of failure on business organizations and practices,...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
4. Global Finance in Emerging Market Economies

   By Todd Knoop

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

   Emerging market economies have accounted for three quarters of world economic growth and more than half of world output over the last decade. But the energy and ideas inherent in emerging economies cannot generate growth by themselves without resources to support them — and first among these...

   Published January 27th 2013 by Routledge
5. Towards International Government (Routledge Revivals)

   By J.A. Hobson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   First published in 1915, Towards International Government considers the consequences of war for global diplomacy and the alliance system. Hobson argues that, to reduce armaments and the possibility of another world war, an organisational structure of international government must be put into place....

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
6. An Economic Geography of Oil (Routledge Revivals)

   By Peter Odell

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   An Economic Geography of Oil, first published in 1963, analyses the reasons behind the spatial distribution of the different sectors of the world oil industry. In the first part of the book, Peter Odell examines the pattern of the world supply of oil, showing the important changes that took place...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
7. Capital Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals)

   By Charles Levinson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Inflation is the economic plague of the modern world, completely undermining conventional theory and policies for its containment, and setting governments, management and labour on a dangerous collision course. Its alarming spread is only paralleled by the expansion of multinational corporations,...

   Published January 23rd 2013 by Routledge
8. 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 19th 2012 by Routledge
9. Crises of Global Economies and the Future of Capitalism

   Reviving Marxian Crisis Theory

   Edited by Kiichiro Yagi, Nobuharu Yokokawa, Hagiwara Shinjiro, Gary Dymski

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   Recent events in the global financial markets and macro economies have served as a strong reminder for a need of a coherent theory of capitalist crisis and analysis. This book helps to fill the gap with well-grounded alternative articulations of the forces which move today's economic dynamics, how...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Assessing the Capitalist Peace

    Edited by Gerald Schneider, Nils Petter Gleditsch

    Researchers have recently reinvigorated the idea that key features associated with a capitalist organization of the economy render nation states internally and externally more peaceful. According to this adage, the contract intensity of capitalist societies and the openness of the economy are among...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge