Economics Books

New and Published Books

1. Ricardo on Money and Finance

   A Bicentenary Reappraisal

   Edited by Yuji Sato, Susumu Takenaga

   David Ricardo, one of the major figures in the history of economic thought, particularly in the English classical political economy, deployed his activities as economist just two hundreds of years ago. Since then his economics has been generally estimated as the culminating point of the classical...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Non-Mainstream Dimensions of Global Political Economy

   Essays in Honour of Sunanda Sen

   Edited by Byasdeb Dasgupta

   The book is a collection of essays written by scholars of global repute in honour of Professor Sunanda Sen. Each paper is well-researched and offers a new dimension to the understanding of the current global crisis, finance and labour including the epistemological viewpoints regarding the current...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Social Innovation

   New Forms of Organisation in Knowledge–Based Societies

   Edited by Carmen Ruiz Viñals, Carmen Parra Rodríguez

   Series: Routledge/Lisbon Civic Forum Studies in Innovation

   'Social innovation’ can be simply defined as the new ideas and initiatives that make it possible to meet our society’s challenges in areas such as the environment, education, employment, culture, health and economic development. It is currently becoming increasingly important as a central concept...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
4. Working Regions

   Reconnecting Innovation and Production in the Knowledge Economy

   By Jennifer Clark

   Series: Regions and Cities

   Working Regions focuses on policy aimed at building sustainable and resilient regional economies in the wake of the global recession. Using examples of four ‘working regions’ — regions where research and design functions and manufacturing still coexist in the same cities — the book argues for a new...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
5. International Trade Unionism (Routledge Revivals)

   By Charles Levinson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations. His earlier work, Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals, 2013)...

   Published May 19th 2013 by Routledge
6. Economics and HIV

   The Sickness of Economics

   By Deborah Johnston

   Series: Routledge International Studies in Health Economics

   This book explains how, and why, economics has been applied to a terrible pandemic, using a range of examples mostly drawn from the region most affected, sub-Saharan Africa. Part I shows that microeconomic approaches have found fertile ground in a public health approach that ‘blames’ individual...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
7. Marx and Living Labour

   By Laurent Baronian

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities. Political economy on the contrary considers the labour...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
8. Human Capital Formation and Economic Growth in Asia and the Pacific

   Edited by Wendy Dobson

   Series: PAFTAD (Pacific Trade and Development Conference Series)

   The entire planet looks to Asian and other emerging markets to sustain growth momentum as traditional markets in the USA and Europe struggle with the slow and arduous processes of deleveraging after the global financial crisis. At the same time, there is growing recognition in Asia that the sources...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
9. Waste Management in Spatial Environments

   Edited by Alessio D'Amato, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   The increasing scarcity of land and the ever-rising amount of waste produced worldwide, coupled with the consequent change of focus by policy makers from waste disposal and recovery to waste prevention is boosting research in the 'economics of waste'. This volume addresses waste-management and...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
10. Economic Prospects - East and West (Routledge Revivals)

    A View from the East

    By Jan Winiecki

    First published in 1987, this is an analysis of the contemporary breakdown of political and economic systems within the Eastern European communist countries. Rather than passively following the developments of this crisis, the author seeks instead to identify the reasons for failure and to examine...

    Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge