Understanding the Social Dimension of Sustainability

Edited by Jesse Dillard, Veronica Dujon, Mary C. King

The imperative of the twenty-first century is sustainability: to raise the living standards of the world's poor and to achieve and maintain high levels of social...

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96465-4 (Routledge)

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Edited by Thomas Boylan, Ruvin Gekker

Following Amartya Sen’s insistence to expand the framework of rational choice theory by taking into account ‘non-utility information,’ economists, political scientists and philosophers have recently...

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-43580-2 (Routledge)

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Middle East and North Africa 2009

Edited by Europa Publications

Now in its fifty-fifth edition, this title continues to provide the most up-to-date geo-political and economic information for this important world area.

Key Features

• covers the Middle...

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-1-85743-472-9 (Routledge)

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The Effects of Religion on Education, Work, and the Family

By Evelyn Lehrer

Using the tools of economics, this book analyses how religion affects decisions and outcomes in a wide range of areas, including education, employment, family size,...

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-70194-5 (Routledge)

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Chinese Economic Development

By Chris Bramall

This book outlines and analyzes the economic development of China between 1949 and 2007. Rather than being narrowly economic, the book addresses many of the...

October 2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-37348-7 (Routledge)

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Labour Migration and Social Development in Contemporary China

Edited by Rachel Murphy

Since the mid-1980s, mass migration from the countryside to urban areas has been one of the most dramatic and noticeable changes in China. Labour migration...

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46801-5 (Routledge)

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Agrobiodiversity Conservation and Economic Development

Edited by Andreas Kontoleon, Unai Pascual, Melinda Smale

This book reflects current developments in the economics of agrobiodiversity and focuses its attention on the role agrobiodiversity can have for economic development. As a...

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46505-2 (Routledge)

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Location of production and the European Union

By Miroslav Jovanovic

The purpose of this book is to provide a guided tour through the theoretical foundations of spatial locations of firms and industries in an evolutionary...

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-42346-5 (Routledge)

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Arms Across Asia

Edited by Geoffrey Till, Emrys Chew, Joshua Ho

This edited volume examines the impact of globalisation on the economies, security policies and military-industrial complexes of the Asia-Pacific region.

The work is structured into three...

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-44048-6 (Routledge)

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Economics at the cutting edge

Edited by Steven Pressman

This book describes the important contributions of several contemporary economic figures including recent Nobel Laureates. Describing their work and putting it into an historical perspective,...

October 2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77501-4 (Routledge)

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