Finance Books

New and Published Books

1. 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
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. Commodity Risk Management

   Theory and Application

   By Geoffrey Poitras

   Commodity Risk Management goes beyond just an introductory treatment of derivative securities, dealing with more advanced topics and approaching the subject matter from a unique perspective. At its core lies the concept that commodity risk management decisions require an in-depth...

   Published January 24th 2013 by Routledge
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Spatial-Economic Metamorphosis of a Nebula City

   Schiphol and the Schiphol Region During the 20th Century

   By Abderrahman El Makhloufi

   Series: Routledge Studies in Human Geography

   This book analyses the long term spatial-economic metamorphosis of Schiphol and the Schiphol region as archetypal for a wider international phenomenon of urban development of metropolises across the world. It study the origins and course of urban development process by identifying and explaining...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. Tax Systems and Tax Reforms in South and East Asia

    By Luigi Bernardi, Angela Fraschini, Parthasarathi Shome

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

    This book examines the present status, recent tax reforms and planned tax policies in some South and East Asia countries since the 1990s. The evidence is presented in a user friendly manner, but at the same time uses technically sophisticated methods. The main countries studied are China, India,...

    Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge