Commerce & Économie / Sciences économiques

Rice: The Primary Commodity

de A.J.H. Latham

Rice: The Primary Commodity de-mystifies the trade, outlines its workings and the problems which confront it.

A.J. Latham outlines the history and cultivation of rice, and the research programmes which have done...

Labour Market Efficiency in the European Union: Employment Protection and Fixed Term Contracts

de Thomas Kruppe, Ralf Rogowski & Klaus Schömann

The deregulation of labour law in the European Union was thought to be a spur to lasting growth of employment and an increase in labour market efficiency. This book reveals that the results of such policies...

The Theory of the Individual in Economics: Identity and Value

de John B Davis

The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy. All strands of thought at heart come down to a particular theory of the individual. Economics, though, is guilty of taking this...

The Accumulation of Capital

de Rosa Luxemburg

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...

Private Sector After Communism

de Jan Winiecki, Vladimir Banacek & Mihaly Laki

The transformation of state-owned enterprises into privately owned ones is commonly referred to as 'privatization'. Just as important as this process, though sometimes not given the attention it deserves and...

Industrialization of China and India: Their Impacts on the World Economy

de Nobuharu Yokokawa, Jayati Ghosh & Bob Rowthorn

This book provides new perspectives on recent Asian dynamism which go beyond the mainstream views, by attempting to situate the recent economic expansion within a broader analysis of capitalist accumulation...

Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction

de Julian Reiss

Philosophy of Economics: A Contemporary Introduction is the first systematic textbook in the philosophy of economics. It introduces the epistemological, metaphysical and ethical problems that arise in economics,...

Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth

de David Korten

Agenda for the New Economy provides the most fundamental and far-reaching critique yet published of what is really wrong in our economic system and the path forward to creating a new economic system that better...

CIM Revision Cards 05/06: Marketing Fundamentals

de Marketing Knowledge

Designed specifically with revision in mind, the CIM Revision Cards provide concise, yet fundamental information to assist students in passing the CIM exams as easily as possible. A clear, carefully structured...

A Neo-Classical Theory of Economic Growth (Routledge Revivals)

de James E. Meade

First published in 1960, this seminal work illuminates the interrelations of the various approaches to the theory of economic growth. Professor Meade seeks to understand the factors which determine the speed...

Theories of Value from Adam Smith to Piero Sraffa

de Ajit Sinha

This book presents a comprehensive account of more than 200 years of controversy on the classical theories of value and distribution. The author focuses on four, perhaps most critical, classics, viz., Adam Smith's...

The Entrepreneur in Microeconomic Theory: Disappearance and Explanaition

de Humberto Barreto

Throughout the history of economic thought, the entrepreneur a wide variety of roles. Once cast as a fundamental agent in production, distribution and growth theories, he has now surprisingly disappeared from...

Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty

de Ashoka Mody & Catherine Pattillo

In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the...

Stone Age Economics

de Marshall Sahlins

Stone Age Economics is a classic of economic anthropology, ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively. This collection of six influential essays is one of Marshall Sahlins'...

The Limits to Scarcity: Contesting the Politics of Allocation

de Lyla Mehta

Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation, social conflict and the resource crunch...

Servitization, IT-ization and Innovation Models: Two-Stage Industrial Cluster Theory

de Hitoshi Hirakawa, Kaushalesh Lal & Shinkai Naoko

This book looks at two-stage industrial cluster theory and new innovation models in view of IT-ization and servitization of products. The formation of industrial clusters such as export processing zones and...

Between the Crashes: Reflections and insights on UK politics and global economics in the aftermath of the financial crisis

de Mark Field

City of London MP Mark Field had a ringside seat in 2008 as the global financial system was sucked into a spiral of crisis. With one foot in the Westminster Village and the other in his central London constituency,...

Heavens on Earth: How to Create Mass Prosperity

de J. P. Floru

The world's economy is in crisis. Public spending has reached dizzying heights, national debts are crippling governments and economic growth is lacklustre or non-existent. It has been suggested that this is...

Au Revoir, Europe: What if Britain left the EU?

de David Charter

Forty years ago, Britain joined the club of European nations. The idea was to guarantee peace and prosperity on the continent through ‘ever closer union’ following centuries of terrible wars. But after four...

Short Circuit: Strengthening Local Economies for Security in an Uncertain World

de Richard Douthwaite

With the deregulation of international trade and a free movement of capital, the world economy is more unstable than ever and liable to economic collapse. So precarious is it that it should no longer be relied...