Studies in applied economics

Léon Walras was one of the key thinkers behind the development of marginal utility theory and introduced the notion of general equilibrium theory - hugely influential to this day. This book is the first English edition of one of Walras's most important contributions: the Études ...

History of globalization

world trade networks, 1920-2000

This book charts the history of the process of globalization over the twentieth century leading up to the time that the term was first coined towards the end of the millennium.

Encyclopedia of world trade

from ancient times to the present

Written for high school or beginning undergraduate students, this four-volume reference valiantly attempts to provide a historical framework for the perhaps overly broad concept of world trade. Entry topics were selected on trade organizations, influential people, commodities, events that affected trade, trade routes, navigation, religion...

Encyclopedia of criminology

While the primary focus of the work is on American criminology and contemporary criminal justice in the United States, extensive global coverage of other nations' justice systems is included, and the increasing international nature of crime is explored thoroughly. Thorough and wide-ranging, the Encyclopedia covers ...

The development of China's stockmarket, 1984-2002

equity politics and market institutions

As China's government manages a transition away from the socialist plan, how does it build the regulatory institutions it needs to manage the new market economy? Without the correct institutions, laws and agencies that implement the laws in place, the remarkable growth witnessed in ...

Rethinking ethnicity

majority groups and dominant minorities

How are dominant ethnic groups, whether majority groups or dominant minorities, responding to the pressures of a global era? Are such groups in decline or are they successfully negotiating or resisting the challenge of new global values? The impact of liberal globalization and multiculturalism means ...

Political theory of global justice

a cosmopolitan case for the world state

Cosmopolitan thinkers challenge the widely held belief that we owe more to our co-citizens than to those in other countries. This book offers a moral argument for world government, claiming that not only do we have strong obligations to people elsewhere, but that accountable integration ...

Globalisation, global justice and social work

This book tackles the effects of the past decade's neoliberalism and globalisation on world-wide social work. The book also grapples with the implications for social work practice of the global social justice/anti-corporate and more.

Doing business in China

Introduction to statistics with SPSS

a guide to the processing, analysing and reporting of (research) data

The new politics of Islam

pan-islamic foreign policy in a world of states

Regionalization of globalised innovation

locations for advanced industrial development and disparities in participation

While processes of innovation are increasingly realised globally, they can also take a highly regionalised expression. In this book, the global networks that link regions are set against the local aspects of innovation. With contributions from international experts, this book examines local 'Islands of Innovation ...

General equilibrium

problem and prospects

Certain leading figures in the world of economics have called the usefulness of general equilibrium theory into question. This volume brings together leading economic theorists with important contributions to the ongoing debate

Warfare and society in the Barbarian West

450-900

The Babylonians

an introduction

For centuries, Babylon has been a symbol of the decadent city par excellence, signifying a deep mistrust of urbanization in general. In the Bible, the city has only negative connotations; and while later classical writers admired the city's size and splendour, they deplored some ...

Lawyers' language

how and why legal language is different

Trotsky

Geoarchaeology in action

studies in soil micromorphology and landscape evolution

Geoarchaeology in Action provides much-needed 'hands on' methodologies to assist anyone conducting or studying geoarchaeological investigations on sites and in landscapes, irrespective of date, place and environment. The book sets out the essential features of geoarchaeological practice and geomorphological processes, and is deliberately aimed at ...

The Routledge atlas of Jewish history

The accumulation of capital

Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs. In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers. Her body was recovered days later from ...