Critical Concepts in Economics
About the Book Series
With a rich backlist of popular Economics titles on current areas of research, the Critical Concepts in Economics series spans a wide range of titles, with titles including China and Globalization, The Great Depression and Feminist Economics. Upcoming titles to look out for include Islamic Economics and Human Capital.
Economic Development of India
1st Edition
Edited
By Pulin B. Nayak
April 17, 2015
The development experience of India has been a matter of much interest in recent years. India is home to a sixth of the world’s population, and about a third of the country is acknowledged to be living below the officially determined poverty line. After more than six decades of planned economic ...
China's Macroeconomic Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Yueh
March 26, 2015
China’s Macroeconomic Policy is a key collection of articles that showcase how economic policies have changed—and are changing still—in the world’s second largest economy, in a way that will affect the global economy. From exchange rates to fiscal policy, Chinese reforms have developed gradually to...
Time Series Econometrics
1st Edition
Edited
By Terence Mills
March 26, 2015
In the memorable words of Ragnar Frisch, econometrics is ‘a unification of the theoretical–quantitative and the empirical–quantitative approach to economic problems’. Beginning to take shape in the 1930s and 1940s, econometrics is now recognized as a vital subdiscipline supported by a vast—and ...
The Economics of Natural Resources
1st Edition
Edited
By Barry Field, Gardner Brown
January 07, 2015
The principles that underpin the economics of natural resources and the many associated issues and controversies that the topic generates are dizzying in their complexity. Now, to help advanced students and researchers make sense of an explosion of scholarship, Routledge announces The Economics of ...
Panel Data Econometrics
1st Edition
Edited
By Badi Baltagi
November 05, 2014
In the memorable words of Ragnar Frisch, econometrics is ‘a unification of the theoretical–quantitative and the empirical–quantitative approach to economic problems’. Beginning to take shape in the 1930s and 1940s, econometrics is now recognized as a vital subdiscipline supported by a vast—and ...
Information Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By David Sappington, Michael Baye
July 30, 2014
How does information affect economic relations? What of the strategic issues surrounding the use of information: the make-buy-or-copy decision; the working and failure of markets; and the important role of outguessing each other in a macroeconomic context? Now, to help advanced students and ...
The Economics of Labor
1st Edition
Edited
By George J. Borjas
July 23, 2014
The branch of economics concerned with the allocation of resources in the labor market addresses some of the most difficult issues facing governments and policy-makers at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The range of dizzying questions it seeks to answer include: what is the impact of ...
Human Capital
1st Edition
Edited
By Pedro Teixeira
April 28, 2014
In recent decades, human capital has become one of the most popular and influential research programmes in the academy. Its influence is not limited to economics, but has proved to be significant to many other social sciences; indeed, it has infused social and political debates about education and ...
e-Commerce Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By David VanHoose
February 04, 2014
The economic principles that underpin commercial transactions via electronic networks, and the many associated economic issues and controversies that e-commerce generates, are dizzying in their complexity. Now, to help advanced students and researchers make sense of an explosion of scholarship, ...
Islamic Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Shafiq Alvi, Amer al-Roubaie
August 29, 2013
The editors of this new collection write: Western economists define economics as the branch of knowledge or science which investigates how scarce resources are best allocated into competing claims upon them. These claims are socially and culturally determined. Islamic economics and its principles ...
The Rise of Econometrics
1st Edition
Edited
By Duo Qin
January 07, 2013
In the memorable words of Ragnar Frisch, econometrics is ‘a unification of the theoretical–quantitative and the empirical–quantitative approach to economic problems’. Beginning to take shape in the 1930s and 1940s, econometrics is now recognized as a vital subdiscipline supported by a vast—and...
China and Globalization
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda Yueh
December 04, 2012
How China continues its integration with the global economy is one of today’s crucial questions, both for China’s own growth prospects and for the rest of the world contending with the still numerous developmental challenges of the world’s second-largest economy. In the first thirty years after it ...