Globalisation

north-south perspectives

Rather than claim that there exists a common concept of globalization that all parties can agree to, this book seeks to examine some of the conceptions and the way in which they render different interpretations of particular aspects of globalization. The last two decades have ...

Global economic decay

war, future crises and changes in global governance

What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century? This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations of the global political economy. It brings together economic theory, political economy, peace and conflict research, philosophy and historical ...

Japanese economic development

markets, norms, structures

What are the possibilities for and conditions of global security in the 21st century? This book provides an innovative study of future wars, crises and transformations of the global political economy. It brings together economic theory, political economy, peace and conflict research, philosophy and historical ...

The economics of urban transportation

This timely new edition of Kenneth A. Small's seminal textbook" Urban Transportation Economics", co-authored with Erik T. Verhoef, has been fully updated, covering new areas such as parking policies, reliability of travel times, and the privatization of transportation services, as well as updated treatments ...

Organization theory and the public sector

instrument, culture and myth

Public sector organizations are fundamentally different to their private sector counterparts. They are multi-functional, follow a political leadership, and the majority do not operate in an external market. In an era of rapid reform, reorganization and modernization of the public sector, this book offers a ...

Paradoxes from A to Z

Michael Clark's bestselling Paradoxes from A to Z is a lively and refreshing introduction to some of the famous puzzles that have troubled thinkers from Zeno and Galileo to Lewis Carroll and Bertrand Russell. He invites you to ponder Achilles and the Tortoise, The ...

The politics of maritime power

a survey

Ed. Andrew T.H. Tan. Since the crucial maritime battles that were fought during the Second World War in both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans and the post-war period, which saw a naval standoff between a vast US navy and a growing Soviet navy, the ...

Development and globalization

a Marxian class analysis

Through a series of concrete examples, this collection shows how Marxian class analysis can be used to challenge existing modes of thought and produce new insights about the problems of capitalist development.

The Study of World Politics

Vol. I. theoretical and methodological challenges

The Enlightenment world

"The Enlightenment World" offers an informed, comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the European Enlightenment (circa. 1720-1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. This prestigious collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and spans early formations up to both contemporary and ...

Microfinance

perils and prospects

Microfinance is defined as the financial services offered to the poor for the purpose of promoting small-scale enterprises, and as such it is one of the most important topics in development studies and a burgeoning area in economics. This volume provides a much-needed historical, political ...

Regional monetary policy

With the final phase of the European Monetary Union underway, concern has been raised over the regional implications of the European Central Bank (ECB) Monetary Policy. Departing from the standard approach utilized by the ECB, this book provides a comprehensive theoretical framework to explore the ...

Making Chicago price theory

Friedman-Stigler correspondence 1945-1957

Milton Friedman and George J. Stigler shaped economics as we know it today - their Chicago School laid the groundwork for much of the neoclassical tradition in economic analysis. This book brings together a collection of letters from these two Noble laureates from the post-war years ...

Universities, innovation and the economy

Universities are increasingly expected to be at the heart of networked structures contributing to society in meaningful and measurable ways through research, the teaching and development of experts, and knowledge innovation. While there is nothing new in universities' links with industry, what is recent is ...

The changing economic geography of globalization

reinventing space

The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways ...

Cultural heritage

critical concepts in media and cultural studies

"Cultural Heritage" is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, "Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies". Edited by Laurajane Smith of the University of York, UK, this four- volume collection brings together the essential Anglophone literature of heritage studies. Encompassing both contemporary ...

Competition and profitability in European financial services

strategic, systematic and policy iusses

From roman provinces to medieval kingdoms

From a prestigious figure in late antique and medieval studies, this collection of essays by leading scholars provides a thorough reassessment of the medieval era which questions how, when and why the Middle Ages began, and how abruptly the shift from Roman Empire to Barbarian ...

Liberalism against liberalism

theoretical analysis of the works of Ludwig von Mises and Gary Becker

The defence of the market and economic freedom has been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind that the first two economists are the maximum exponents of the ...

The history of company

the development of the business corporation 1700-1914

The company is core to the development of the last 300 years. This two-part collection of rare texts explores the changing economic, social and political role of the Anglo-American firm. Focusing on its formative development between the later seventeenth and the early twentieth centuries, the ...