A Cultural History of Finance (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

Product DescriptionThe world of finance is again undergoing crisis and transformation. This book provides a new perspective on finance through the prism of popular and formal culture and examines fascination and repulsion toward money, the role of governments and individuals in financial crises and how the Crisis of 2008, like others since 1720, repeat the [...]

The Entrepreneurial State in China: Real Estate and Commerce Departments in Reform Era Tianjin (Routledge Studies on China in Transition)

Product DescriptionJane Duckett uses research on the northern city of Tianjin during the 1990s to examine how individual departments of the Chinese state are establishing their own businesses, and why…. More >>
The Entrepreneurial State in China: Real Estate and Commerce Departments in Reform Era Tianjin (Routledge Studies on China in Transition)

Applied Public Relations: Cases in Stakeholder Management (Routledge Communication Series)

Product DescriptionApplied Public Relations provides readers with the opportunity to observe and analyze how contemporary businesses and organizations interact with key groups and influences. Through the presentation of cases covering a wide variety of industries, locations, and settings, authors Kathy Brittain McKee and Larry F. Lamb examine how real organizations develop and maintain their relationships, [...]

The End of Finance: Capital Market Inflation, Financial Derivatives and Pension Fund Capitalism (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Product DescriptionThis volume examines whether the present “era of finance” represents the best possible way of organizing economic affairs, arguing the ensuing economic instability and inefficiency create the preconditions for the end of the dominance of finance…. More >>
The End of Finance: Capital Market Inflation, Financial Derivatives and Pension Fund Capitalism (Routledge Frontiers of Political [...]

The Finance of British Industry, 1918-1976 (Economic History (Routledge))

Product DescriptionHow has British industry financed itself in the past? With the current debate on industry’s financial strategy, this study of the past sixty years is a particularly timely contribution to the discussions on the future financing of industry. This book gives, for the inter-war years, a detailed examination of the main sources [...]

Economics of the Law: A Primer (Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance)

Product DescriptionThere 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 can be used to examine this question and scrutinize these legal norms. Indeed, this is one of the first text to be based on civil law instead of [...]

Routledge German Dictionary of Business, Commerce and Finance Worterbuch Fur Wirtschaft, Handel und Finanzen: Deutsch-Englisch/Englisch-Deutsch German-English/English-German … Bilingual Specialist Dictionaries)

Product DescriptionThis dictionary consists of some 50,000 terms and references and 4,000 abbreviations in both German and English. Over 40 subject areas are covered, including: – Accountancy – Banking – Computing – Economics – Finance – General Commerce – Human Resource Management – Import/Export – Industry – Insurance – Law – Management [...]

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era: Systems, State Finance, and the Shadows of Futurity (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)

Product DescriptionSympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance. Through readings of authors such as David Hume, Adam Smith, William Wordsworth, and P.B. Shelley, this volume establishes [...]

Macroeconomic Dimensions of Public Finance: Essays in Honour of Vito Tanzi (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)

Product DescriptionThere is no magic formula for balancing fiscal policy and economic performance. As a scholar and policy advisor, Vito Tanzi has made a major contribution to identifying links between public finance and macro- and microeconomic consequences. His findings bear relevance in both developing and industrialized economies. The essays in this volume and its companion, [...]

Fiscal Decentralization and Local Public Finance in Japan (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy)

Product DescriptionThe intergovernmental fiscal issue is highly relevant given the worldwide movement toward more decentralized governance in both industrial and developing countries.  Over the course of five decades Japan has developed a robust system of decentralized governance.  This book investigates fiscal decentralization and local finance in Japan with a view to understanding how the process [...]

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