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VC01-97 Political Economy, 4-Vols/Set.
  Schofield, Norman/ 9780415576130
 
 
PC01-59 Mining and the State in Brazilian Development.
  Triner, Gail D/ 9781848930681
 
  Mining and the State examines the fundamental economic institutional structure of Brazil through the prism of its mineral endowment. This study breaks new ground, offering insights into four areas: it reveals the importance of minerals in the economic governance of Brazil; it presents a nuanced interpretation of the economic role of the Brazilian state; it focuses on the interactions between multiple institutions, thereby allowing a wider scale study than has previously been done; and it integrates political and economic ideologies with legal theory. In an environment in which economic governance and non-renewable resource allocation are again emerging as important public issues, the issues addressed in this book resonate loudly.
PC01-58 Global Trade and Commercial Networks: Eighteenth-Century Diamond Merchants.
  Vanneste, Tijl/ 9781848930872
 
  At the heart of this study on cross-cultural trade lies a concrete case-study of a network of diamond-traders operating in the early eighteenth century. This network was only successful due to the trust placed in each trader. This trust was formed, over time, by the exchange of correspondence, allowing commercial friendships and a system of reciprocity to emerge. Such trusted exchange also allowed a system of credit ¡V used for almost all trading agreements as well as becoming important in itself ¡V to develop. All the traders examined in this study are outsiders: an English Catholic in Antwerp, Sephardic Jews in London and French Huguenots in Lisbon. Traditionally, such diasporas have been seen as key to the development of a globalized economy. Vanneste argues that whilst this is generally correct, it is nonetheless hard to reconcile the idea of such intricate, trusted relationships with people who are detached from their surrounding societies. Vanneste suggests that these diasporas must be embedded in the social environment of the host society in a more profound way than previously assumed, and that such cohesion allowed the development of trusted trading networks and an early modern globalization.
PC01-57 Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875-1914.
  Sweeney, Stuart/ 9781848930476
 
  If there is one part of the British Empire with its reputation still largely intact it is the Indian railways. However, the balance sheet of Indian railways has been skewed over time to exaggerate its benefits and minimize its shortcomings. The costs to India in spending scarce resources on railways in preference to irrigation, sanitation and education have been immense. Sitting at the heart of the raj¡¦s project to ¡¥improve¡¦ India, the construction of railways began as a ¡¥liberal¡¦ experiment in 1853, its aims: to promote trade and commerce, to distribute food to famine-stricken regions, and to facilitate the movement of troops. Rather than being a paean to free trade, however, the money came from taxes levied on the native tax-base who were sparsely represented politically, and financiers who held a disproportionate influence over Imperial decision-makers in London. Furthermore, the new markets created by exports of Indian foodstuffs priced them out of the reach of many local people. Sweeney¡¦s study focuses in on what was the largest investment project of the British Empire and debunks prevailing ideas about the British Indian experience.
PC01-56 Economic Development of Africa, 1880-1939, 5-Vols/Set.
  Sunderland, David/ 9781848930636
 
  One of the main motives for British imperialism in Africa was economic gain. This collection examines the ways in which Britain developed Africa, and, in so doing, benefited her own economy. In addition, it explores the impact development had on African societies and the economic roles of Africans. Topics examined will include: agricultural production of foods and non-foods; the marketing of produce; white settlement of farm lands; the emergence of trade, mining, industry and banking; African enterprise; and the supply of labour and working conditions.
PC01-55 Development of the Art Market in England, The.: Money as Muse, 1730-1900.
  Bayer, Thomas M/ 9781848930438
 
  European art markets did not evolve simultaneously or secularly. Instead, their growth was often fragmented and haphazard. The exception was England, which in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed the development of a modern art market uninterrupted by wars on native soil and aided by relatively steady economic growth. As art emerged as an exchangeable commodity, dealers and institutions engaged in it were forced to improve their respective exchange qualifications, and the unprecedented explosion of styles that started in the latter part of the nineteenth century can be attributed to the influence of the institutional art dealer. This book gives a comprehensive account of the history and underlying economics of the modern art market in eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Britain. Bayer and Page argue that economics shaped and developed visual culture to the extent that we should no longer restrict market issues to narrative discussions of dealers¡¦ involvements in the careers of specific artists. Economic, econometric and statistical analyses of two specifically created, and particularly rich, data sets that record over 42,000 auction and dealer-based sales of paintings in London between 1720 and 1910 reveal hitherto unknown transaction patterns and trade modus operandi that offer unprecedented insight into the operations of the art market.
PC01-54-1 Coal in Victorian Britain, Part I: Volumes 1-3.
  Benson, John/ 9781848930605
 
  It is almost impossible to exaggerate the role that the coal industry played in nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. Coal, along with cotton, was the driving force of the British industrial revolution. By the time the First World War broke out in 1914, nearly two-thirds of all the coal entering world trade was mined in Britain, and coal mining accounted for one in ten of Great Britain¡¦s entire occupied male population. The rapid expansion of coal mining had a profound impact not just upon the British economy but upon the social, cultural, religious, industrial and political life of the country. This six-volume, reset collection provides scholars with a wide variety of sources relating to the Victorian coal industry. It is no longer possible to think of the nineteenth and early twentieth-century industry in terms simply of an unending ¡V and unchanging ¡V confrontation between grasping coal owners and militant miners locked together in an incessant stream of toxic strikes and debilitating lockouts. The collection takes into account the recent developments in the historiography of coal mining, showing that miners and their families did not live bleakly narrow lives in featureless, single-industry communities cut off from the rest of society. Coal is a topic that has been, remains, and will continue to be of significant interest to those concerned with the causes, course and consequences of industrialization and de-industrialization. Sources are rare and have been selected so as to reflect both the diversity of, as well as the changes taking place within, the coal industry, the communities which serviced it, and the industrial relations practices which emerged to regulate it during the course of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
PC01-53 Camille Gutt and Postwar International Finance.
  Crombois, Jean F/ 9781848930582
 
  As a businessman, financier, diplomat, minister, and the first Managing Director of the IMF (International Monetary Fund), Camille Gutt (1884¡V1971) was involved in all the important financial negotiations that took place between the 1920s and the 1950s. Key to this, of course, is the role which he played during the Second World War, when foreign policy and financial interest were often at odds. Using Gutt¡¦s personal archives as his starting point, Crombois examines the rise and fall of financial diplomacy as a largely private enterprise, with Gutt¡¦s life as a case-study. He examines how financial diplomacy and official diplomacy differed, and confronts the confusion between private and public interests, the high level of informality in the financial sector, and the growth of postwar self-identification with national interests.
Reform and Development of China's Economy.
  Cheng, Siwei/ 9789814298308
 
  This book presents the thoughts and reflections of the highly regarded Chinese scholar and statesman, Cheng Siwei. It brings together the author¡¦s research on financial reform, capital markets, banking reform, agricultural finance, venture investment and free trade in contemporary China.
Growth without Crisis: China's Modern Financial System.
  Renmin University of China/ 9789814298322
 
  This book establishes the concept of 30-year economic ¡§crisis-free growth¡¨ in China, and explores the fiscal and financial reasons for success. It focuses on the relationship between economic growth, fiscal decentralization, local government behavior and taxation. In addition, this book examines the theory of the formation of RMB equilibrium exchange rate and identifies the political-economic mechanism of exchange rate reform as one of the main reasons for China¡¦s economic growth.
China's Exchange Rate Variation: Impact of Structural Changes on Industry.
  Gu, Kejian/ 9789814298346
 
  This book analyses China¡¦s current industrial restructuring as part of its economic development and globalization, and argues that the momentum of China¡¦s industrial restructuring has its roots in the external sector. It explores the external effects of industrial structural changes in an open economic condition, especially the RMB exchange rate variation and its effects on China¡¦s economy.
Innovative Capability of Chinese Enterprises.
  Yi, Zhihong/ 9789814298360
 
  In recent years, China has seen the advantages of building an innovation-oriented nation. Through research and case studies, this book provides a thorough analysis of the sustainable development model of independent innovation for Chinese enterprises.
Structural Economics in China: A Three-Dimensional Framework for Balanced Growth.
  Xiang, Junbo/ 9789814298384
 
 
Evolution and Growth of China's Wholesale Industry since 1978.
  Ma, Longlong/ 9789814298407
 
 
VC01-96 Great Depression, The., 4-Vols/Set.
  Wood, Geoffrey E/ 9780415573511
 
 
VC01-95 Development, 110-Vols/Set.
  / 9780415584142
 
 
VC01-94 Housing Economics, 4-Vols/set.
  Marsh, Alex/ 9781849200189
 
 
VC01-93 21st Century Economics, 2-Vols/set.
  Free, Rhona C/ 9781412961424
 
  Interest in economics is at an all-time high. Among the challenges facing the nation is an economy with rapidly rising unemployment, failures of major businesses and industries, and continued dependence on oil with its wildly fluctuating price. Americans are debating the proper role of the government in company bailouts, the effectiveness of tax cuts versus increased government spending to stimulate the economy, and potential effects of deflation. Economists have dealt with such questions for generations, but they have taken on new meaning and significance. Tackling these questions and encompassing analysis of traditional economic theory and topics as well as those that economists have only more recently addressed, 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook is intended to meet the needs of several types of readers. Undergraduate students preparing for exams will find summaries of theory and models in key areas of micro and macroeconomics. Readers interested in learning about economic analysis of an issue as well students embarking on research projects will find introductions to relevant theory and empirical evidence. And economists seeking to learn about extensions of analysis into new areas or about new approaches will benefit from chapters that introduce cutting-edge topics. To make the book accessible to undergraduate students, models have been presented only in graphical format (minimal calculus) and empirical evidence has been summarized in ways that do not require much background in statistics or econometrics. It is thereby hoped that chapters will provide both crucial information and inspiration in a non-threatening, highly readable format.
VC01-90 Urban and Regional Economics, 4-Vols/Set.
  McCann, Philip/ 9780415487740
 
 
VC01-89 Twentieth-Century Economic History, 4-Vols/Set.
  Magnusson, Lars/ 9780415496070
 
  The study of economic phenomena over time is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study, and this new four-volume collection in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Economics, meets the need for an authoritative, up-to-date, and comprehensive reference work synthesizing the voluminous literature from twentieth-century economic historians. Indeed, the sheer scale of the research output-and the breadth of the field-makes this collection especially welcome. It answers the need for a comprehensive collection of classic and contemporary contributions to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important scholarship from a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives. The collection is organized into ten principal parts. Part 1 explores theory and methodology and the role of economic history as either an alternative to mainstream economics, or as a 'help discipline'. Part 2 gathers the key research on growth in economic history. The third and fourth parts cover the causes and social consequences of the Industrial Revolution, while Part 5 brings together the best and most influential work on the feudal and early modern economy. Part 6 deals with free trade, mercantilism, and imperialism. Part 7 focuses on the Great Depression, while Part 8 collects research on world economic history and the slave economy. The final part collects a fascinating miscellany of crucial issues, including taxation and gender. Twentieth-Century Economic History is edited by Lars Magnusson, a leading scholar in the field. The collection is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.
VC01-87 Economic Reform in Modern China, 4-Vols/Set.
  Zhang, Wei/ 9780415560689
 
 
VC01-85 Experimental Economics, 4-Vols/Set.
  Velupillai, K. Vela/ 9780415451277
 
  The first volume in the collection (¡¥Classics, Foundations, and Individual Decision Making¡¦) brings together the best work covering all the major themes that have come to define the scope of the subject. Volume II (¡¥Games, Bargaining, Auctions, and Voting¡¦), meanwhile, collects the key research on the various ways in which experiments have been devised to study decision processes in the context of interactive behaviour. The work gathered in Volume II reflects, in particular, the importance of the Game Theoretic tradition in Experimental Economics. Volume III (¡¥Markets, Mechanisms, Learning, and Information¡¦) examines the most explicitly dynamic vision of Experimental Economics by grouping together the pioneering and frontier contributions in the study of markets (at the field and laboratory levels), in the design of experimentally implementable mechanisms, in the inference problems associated with¡Xoften in Bayseian settings¡Xlearning, and in the complex role of information asymmetries in market behaviour. Finally, Volume IV is titled ¡¥Public Goods, Industrial Organization and Institutions¡¦ and it brings together the best research on these perennially fascinating and productive research areas in Experimental Economics. This final volume completes a picture that begins in Volume I at an individual level, where institutional contexts are abstracted away. Here, the key contributions to Experimental Economics where such abstraction is impossible are brought together. With comprehensive introductions to each volume, newly written by the editor, which place the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Experimental Economics is an essential collection destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.
VC01-49 Women's Economic Writing 1760-1900, 6-Vols/Set.
  Seiz, Janet/ 9780415340397
 
  This collection presents six volumes of significant economic writing by women between the mid 18th century and the early twentieth century. The writings are organized thematically and among the topics included are: * Political Economy for the Masses * Women's Economic Lives * Poverty and the Condition of the Working Class * Slavery, Race and Empire * Socialism
SC01-392 Cents and Sustainability: Securing Our Common Future by Decoupling Economic Growth from Environmental Pressures.
  Smith, Michael H./ 9781844075294
 
  With some still arguing for significantly slowing economic growth in order to reduce pressures on the environment, this new book, Cents and Sustainability, shows that it is possible to reconcile the need for economic growth and environmental sustainability through a strategy to decouple economic growth from environmental pressures, combined with a renewed commitment to achieve significant environmental restoration and poverty reduction. Beginning with a brief overview of some of the most pressing environmental challenges of our time, the book then explains 'decoupling theory', overviews a number of factors that can undermine and even block efforts to decouple in both developed and developing countries, and then discusses a number of key considerations to assist the development of national 'decoupling strategies'. The book then focuses on presenting evidence to support greater action, not just on climate change, but also on decoupling economic growth from the loss of biodiversity and the deterioration of natural systems, freshwater extraction, waste production, and air pollution. In the lead up to the 2012 United Nations Earth Summit and beyond, Cents and Sustainability will be a crucial guide to inform and assist nations to develop strategies to significantly reduce environmental pressures, strengthen their economy, create jobs and reduce poverty.
SC01-391 Multi-Dimension of Industrial Relations in the Asian Knowledge-Based Economies, The.
  Siengthai, Sununta/ 9781843342649
 
 
SC01-387 Information Asymmetries and the Creation of Economic Value.
  Roels, Joop A./ 9781607504788
 
  What do Darwin¡¦s theory of evolution and the second law of thermodynamics contribute to our understanding of the world in which we live? More than you think: the combination of both produces what is called a general systems theory of evolution. The second law of thermodynamics has been popularly formulated as:¡§Systems that are left alone develop in a direction of increasing disorder¡¨. While buildings that are left alone develop into ruins, the reverse process requires the input of solid and skilled labor. On the other hand, evolution clearly proceeds in the direction of increased complexity. Ordered systems, such as human kind, evolved apparently spontaneously out of an initially unordered state. "Information Asymmetries and the Creation of Economic Value" has the challenging ambition of investigating the relationship between the former theories and the storage, processing and transfer of information to grasp the dynamics of economies, markets and industries, adding a practical side to the pure theory. This book develops a conceptually and mathematically consistent framework for existing concepts used in organizational economics. And it does so in a way accessible to readers that are not familiar with modeling approaches, overcoming the lack of consistency and accessibility that is common in econophysics and complementing, thus, existing approaches in the literature. An essential read for those that finally want to be able to understand and use evolutionary approaches to organizations, whether they are familiar with the subject or not.
SC01-383 State of the World 2010: Transforming Cultures from Consumerism to Sustainability.
  Worldwatch Institute/ 9781849710541
 
  Many of the environmental and social problems we face today are symptoms of a deeper systemic failing: a dominant cultural paradigm that encourages living in ways that are often directly counter to the realities of a finite planet. This paradigm, typically referred to as the 'consumer culture', has already spread to more than two billion individuals and has led to consumption levels that are vastly unsustainable. If this culture spreads further there will be little possibility of solving climate change or other environmental problems that are poised to dramatically disrupt human civilization. It will take a sustained, long-term effort to redirect the institutions that shape our consumer culture towards a culture of sustainability. These institutions include schools, the media, businesses and governments. By bringing about a cultural shift that makes living sustainably as 'natural' as a consumer lifestyle is today, not only will this address urgent crises like climate change, it could also tackle other symptoms like extreme income inequity, obesity, and social isolation that are not typically seen as environmental problems. State of the World 2010 will paint a picture of what this sustainability culture could look like, and how we can and already are making the shift.
PC01-52 Federal Banking in Brazil: Policies and Competitive Advantages.
  Mettenheim, Kurt E von/ 9781848930650
 
  This study is the first in a decade to provide an overview of banking in Brazil. It is argued that the big three federal banks have long provided essential policy alternatives and, since the liberalization of the industry in the 1990s, have realized competitive advantages over private and foreign banks. Based on archival research and extensive analysis of recent bank performance, the case studies ¡V a commercial investment bank, a savings bank and a development bank ¡V reveal an unacknowledged aspect of Brazilian development and the unexpected reform and modernization of these large financial institutions in contemporary Brazil.
PC01-51 Convergence and Divergence of National Financial Systems: Evidence from the Gold Standards, 1871-1971.
  Baubeau, Patrice/ 9781851966486
 
  Coming out of the Codisyna project which looked at national financial systems during the Gold Standard years of 1871¡V1971, this collection of essays aims to form a focused, original and constructive approach to examining the question of convergence and divergence in Europe. With contemporary as well as historical relevance, this study will appeal to historians and economists as well as those with a professional or scholarly interest in the world of banking and finance.
PC01-50 Benjamin Franklin and the Invention of Microfinance.
  Costello, Michele/ 9781848930346
 
  In life, Benjamin Franklin sought to manage debt, organize credit, build capital and promote virtue. After death, he continued this work by leaving a codicil to his last will and testament, bequeathing ¢G2,000 to Boston and Philadelphia and to the commonwealths of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania with explicit instructions on how they should utilize the money over the course of the following two hundred years. Franklin designed that the money be used to provide loans to young married artisans to enable them to start small businesses and thereby promote a higher standard of living and a strong moral community. Although the managers put in charge of the endowment did not lend as effectively as Franklin had hoped, the loans did aid numerous small businessmen. Without fully realizing it, Franklin invented an idea that would come to fruition some two centuries later in the global microfinance movement. This study traces the development of that idea and simultaneously enlightens a neglected aspect of American financial history. Advocates of microfinance today will find much of interest in this study, including pitfalls to avoid and old ideas that may bear resuscitation.
 

 

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