Investment & Securities Books

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1. Law and Power in Foreign Investment in Africa: Shades of Grey in the Shadow of the Law

   By Lorenzo Cotula

   In many parts of sub-Saharan Africa, economic liberalisation, improved transport and communication systems and the global demand for food, energy and commodities have fostered foreign investment in mining, petroleum and agriculture for food, fuel and agro-industrial commodities. In 2008 foreign...

   March 2011 | 978-0-415-60990-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

2. Socially Responsible Investing

   By Donald Schepers

   Of increasing importance in the last decade, socially responsible investing (SRI) can be described as the important financial aspect of the broader corporate social responsibility (CSR) area. In both Europe and the US pressure is being exerted not only from individual investors, but increasingly by...

   January 2011 | 978-0-415-39034-7 | Paperback (Routledge)

3. Retirement Security in the Great Recession

   Edited by Christian Weller

   Few events have posed as many challenges for retirement and retirement policy as the crisis of the late 2000s. At the end of the last decade, the United States experienced the Great Recession—a combination of unprecedented wealth losses and historically high unemployment increases that marked the...

   September 2010 | 978-0-415-58903-1 | Hardback (Routledge)

4. The South Sea Bubble: An Economic History of its Origins and Consequences.

   By Helen Paul

   The book is an economic history of the South Sea Bubble. It combines economic theory and quantitative analysis with historical evidence in order to provide a rounded account. It brings together scholarship from a variety of different fields to update the existing historical work on the Bubble. Up...

   August 2010 | 978-0-415-46973-9 | Hardback (Routledge)

5. Promoting Informal Venture Capital: The Evolution of Policy and Practice

   By Richard Harrison, Colin Mason

   The field of entrepreneurial finance and venture capital in general, and informal venture capital or business angel financing in particular, has become a major focus of academic research and policy debate internationally, with strong interest not only in Europe and North America but also in the...

   June 2010 | 978-0-415-87964-4 | Hardback (Routledge)

6. Classical Econophysics

   By Allin F. Cottrell, Paul Cockshott, Gregory John Michaelson, Ian P. Wright, Victor Yakovenko

   This monograph examines the domain of classical political economy using the methodologies developed in recent years both by the new discipline of econo-physics and by computing science. This approach is used to re-examine the classical subdivisions of political economy: production, exchange,...

   May 2009 | 978-0-415-47848-9 | Hardback (Routledge)
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   Personal Finance and Investments: A Behavioural Finance Perspective

   By Keith Redhead

   In this book, the author draws from finance, psychology, economics, and other disciplines in business and the social sciences, recognising that personal finance and investments are subjects of study in their own right rather than merely branches of another discipline. Considerable attention is...

   2008 | 978-0-415-42862-0 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Making Business Districts Work: Leadership and Management of Downtown, Main Street, Business District, and Community Development Org

   By Marvin D Feit, David Feehan

   Unprecedented, broad coverage of downtown and community development topics from a practitioner’s viewpoint!Making Business Districts Work: Leadership and Management of Downtown, Main Street, Business District, and Community Development Organizations is the essential desk reference for...

   2006 | 978-0-7890-2391-9 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Concise Encyclopedia of Real Estate Business Terms

   By Robert E Stevens, David L Loudon, William E. Roark

   An invaluable resource for real estate professionals and studentsConcise Encyclopedia of Real Estate Business Terms puts the terms used every day in the marketing and study of real estate at your fingertips. With a simple A-to-Z format, this comprehensive reference guide gets right to the point,...

   2006 | 978-0-7890-2342-1 | Paperback (Routledge)

10. Law and Investment in China: The Legal and Business Environment after China's WTO Accession

    By Vai Io Lo, Xiaowen Tian

    The Chinese market is appealing, but the Chinese legal system is very complicated. A basic understanding of Chinese law is absolutely crucial for companies investing in this fast-growing and potentially huge market. Since China is moving toward a socialist market economy and is increasingly...

    2006 | 978-0-415-40615-4 | Paperback (Routledge)