Financialization At Work

Key Texts and Commentary

Edited by Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud, Sukhdev Johal, Adam Leaver, Karel Williams

Crisis with US sub-prime mortgages, paralysis in global credit markets and the run on Northern Rock - all wake-up calls to the growing influence of...

Published May 9th 2008 by Routledge.

Sex Markets

A Denied Industry

By Marina Della Giusta, Maria Di Tommaso, Steinar Strøm

Empirical and mathematically rigorous, this book provides a study of the economics of prostitution rather than focusing on the sociological and cultural themes. Using economic...

Published March 19th 2008 by Routledge.

By Bruce Hollingsworth, Stuart J. Peacock

This book provides a concise synthesis of leading edge research in the theory and practise of efficiency measurement in health and health care. Whilst much...

Published February 7th 2008 by Routledge.

Economics of the Law

A Primer

By Wolfgang Weigel

There is an ever-increasing interest in the question of how and why legal norms can effectively guide human action. This compact volume demonstrates how economic tools...

Published February 7th 2008 by Routledge.

Edited by John C. Wood, Michael C. Wood

Alfred D. Chandler (1918–2007) was the founder of modern business history. He was a critical early influence on strategic management and is famous for the...

Published December 24th 2007 by Routledge.

National Currencies and Globalization

Endangered Specie?

By Paul Bowles

Globalization and money – two concepts inextricably linked. In many ways the speed with which financial resources traverse the globe, the opportunities which this provides...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

By Andrew Tylecote, Francesca Visintin

There is much debate regarding which countries’ economies have the best economic systems to encourage economic growth and technological change. This book is a major...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

Economic Development, Institutional Reform, and Social Welfare in the Western Balkans

By William Bartlett

The countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and the province of Kosovo - form a core European...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

Health Economics

An International Perspective

By Barbara McPake, Charles Normand

Beginning with a look into simple models of supply and demand within health care, this key text moves on to techniques of cost-benefit analysis, and then compares differing...

Published December 20th 2007 by Routledge.

The Evolution of Regionalism in Asia

Economic and Security Issues

Edited by Heribert Dieter

This edited volume looks at regional integration processes in Asia. Whilst integration in the region, defined as Southeast and East Asia, is not a new...

Published December 13th 2007 by Routledge.