The Adam Smith Review Volume 3

By Vivienne Brown

Adam Smith’s contribution to economics is well-recognised but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his works. The Adam Smith...

Published November 15th 2007 by Routledge.

The Political Economy of Saudi Arabia

By Tim Niblock, Monica Malik

With Saudi Arabia being of immense importance both politically and economically in the Middle East, this book provides a much needed, broad ranging survey of...

Published November 8th 2007 by Routledge.

David Hume's Political Economy

Edited by Margaret Schabas, Carl Wennerlind

Hume’s Political Discourses (1752) won immediate acclaim and positioned him as an authoritative figure on the subject of political economy. This volume of thirteen new...

Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge.

Critical Concepts in the Environment

Edited by Chuck Mason, Erwin Bulte

Environmental economics is dedicated to the analysis of externalities (i.e. the side-effects or consequences of industrial or commercial activities that are not reflected in market...

Published October 31st 2007 by Routledge.

Created in China

The Great New Leap Forward

By Michael Keane

This book examines China’s creative economy—and how television, animation, advertising, design, publishing and digital games are reshaping traditional understanding of culture. Since the 1950s China...

Published October 30th 2007 by Routledge.

A New Framework for Global Sustainability

Edited by Roy E. Allen

This book presents ‘human ecology economics’ as a new and more comprehensive interdisciplinary framework for understanding ‘world conditions and human systems’. This book helps economists...

Published October 11th 2007 by Routledge.

Queer Economics

A Reader

Edited by Joyce Jacobsen, Adam Zeller

An important new book, bringing together into one volume many of the salient early articles in the field as well as important recent contributions, this...

Published October 11th 2007 by Routledge.

Reigniting the Labor Movement

Restoring means to ends in a democratic Labor Movement

By Gerald Friedman

A century of union growth ended in the 1980s. Since then, declining union membership has undermined the Labor Movement’s achievements throughout the advanced capitalist world....

Published October 4th 2007 by Routledge.

Encounters with Identity/Difference

By Nitasha Kaul

It is possible to be ‘irrational’ without being ‘uneconomic’? What is the link between ‘Value’ and ‘values’? What do economists do when they ‘explain’? We...

Published October 4th 2007 by Routledge.

Regulation, Rent-Seeking and Policy Failure

By Jeff Tan

In recent years, privatisation has fallen out of favour in many countries because the underlying political factors have not been well understood. This book examines...

Published September 27th 2007 by Routledge.