Capitalism

By Victor D. Lippit

This imaginative and ambitious book rethinks the nature of capitalism. Lippit, a leading heterodox economist in the USA, here delivers a comparative study of different...

Published January 19th 2007 by Routledge.

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Social Capital, Trust and the Industrial Revolution

1780–1880

By David Sunderland

The first text to examine the concept of trust and the role that it played on the Industrial Revolution, this book is a key resource...

Published January 18th 2007 by Routledge.

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Innovation Diffusion in the New Economy

The Tacit Component

By Barbara Jones, Bob Miller

This book unites discussions of the philosophical and scientific basis of tacit knowledge.

The authors give an overview of the theories of tacit knowledge and explain...

Published January 11th 2007 by Routledge.

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The New Urban Economics

And Alternatives

By H.W. Richardson

Published December 21st 2006 by Routledge.

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The Government and Misgovernment of London

By William A. Robson

Published December 21st 2006 by Routledge.

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Equilibrium in Economics

Scope and Limits

Edited by Valeria Mosini

General Equilibrium Theory, which became the dominating paradigm after the Second World War, is founded on the postulated existence, uniqueness, and stability of equilibrium in economic...

Published December 21st 2006 by Routledge.

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Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade

History, Theory and Empirical Evidence

By Anwar Shaikh

The world has become a human laboratory for the momentous social experiment called neoliberalism. Its proclaimed purpose is to reduce global poverty, its protocols are...

Published December 21st 2006 by Routledge.

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Markets, Deliberation and Environment

By John O'Neill

What is the source of our environmental problems? Why is there in modern societies a persistent tendency to environmental damage? From within neoclassical economic theory...

Published December 14th 2006 by Routledge.

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Normative Foundations of the Welfare State

The Nordic Experience

By Nanna Kildal, STEIN KUHNLE

This is a sharp analysis of the unique Nordic welfare system with urgent lessons for governments and societies across the globe.
Welfare programs and institutions...

Published December 8th 2006 by Routledge.

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Economics and the Mind

By Barbara Montero, Mark D. White

Economics is often defined as the science of choice or human action. But choice and action are essentially mental phenomena, an aspect rarely mentioned in...

Published November 24th 2006 by Routledge.

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