Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance
About the Book Series
The fields of economics and finance are constantly expanding and evolving. This growth presents a significant challenge to readers trying to keep up with the latest important insights. Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance presents short books on the latest big topics, leveraging cutting edge research from scholars globally.
Individually, each title in the series provides coverage of a key topic, whilst collectively, the series forms a comprehensive collection across the whole spectrum of economics and finance.
Resilient Global Supply Chains and Geopolitical Risk: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Aleksandra Kania
May 12, 2026
Global supply chains, long seen as engines of efficiency and economic integration, have been increasingly disrupted by recent crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, and shifts in trade and industrial policy. These developments have raised costs, increased uncertainty, and reduced...
Dollar Dominance: Fundamentals, Nature and Present Structure
1st Edition
By Junji Tokunaga
May 06, 2026
This book critically analyzes the US dollar’s dominance as an international currency through an analysis of US dollar gross balance sheets in the shadow banking system at global, systematically important banks. It begins by drawing upon Minsky and Kindleberger’s financial fragility hypothesis, ...
The Geoeconomics of Global Value Chains: Navigating Geopolitical Complexity and Industrial Policy Shifts
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska
May 01, 2026
The post-Cold War era was widely associated with the Washington Consensus, which promoted economic efficiency, specialization, and trade liberalization as pathways to growth and social welfare. Globalization facilitated the rise of geographically dispersed production networks, known as global value...
Proactivity in Economics: Between Resourcefulness and Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
February 27, 2026
Between plain resourcefulness and full-blooded entrepreneurship lies a middle ground of proactivity which, as this book argues, is a concept that allows economists to make better sense of activity where an individual takes greater agency over their personal outcomes through the existing employment ...
Geopolitics, China and the Global Supply Chain: Issues and Implications
1st Edition
By Sarah Chan
February 06, 2026
In an era of increasing geopolitical turmoil, this book looks at the impact of geopolitics on global supply chains and examines the role of China in East Asia’s regional economic integration. It evaluates the impact of geoeconomic fragmentation along different dimensions such as trade, FDI and ...
Financial Resilience and the Sustainable Development Goals
1st Edition
Edited
By Magdalena Zioło, Bruno S. Sergi
February 03, 2026
Financial resilience is a concept that is gaining importance in the context of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risk and can be considered from the perspective of any entity operating in the market economy, from households to local government units. This book presents the concept of ...
Crowdfunding European Business
1st Edition
By Antonella Francesca Cicchiello
December 26, 2025
This book questions the ability of crowdfunding (especially in the lending and equity-based models) to contribute to the development of European businesses, and therefore, to the relaunch of the European economy. Following a mainly micro (firm-based) approach, the study investigates the advantages ...
Financial Security and Household Life Insurance: Bridging the Gap
1st Edition
By Joanna Dębicka, Anna Jędrzychowska
December 15, 2025
This book offers a comprehensive understanding of a novel approach to household security following the loss of an adult member, introducing the concept of Bridging Household Life Insurance. It addresses the financial and functional instability that families face after the death of a spouse or ...
The Circular Economy and SMEs
1st Edition
Edited
By Fahimeh Khatami
December 03, 2025
Circularity is a practice that not only increases efficient industry performance but it focuses on resource management, waste reduction, innovation, stakeholder engagement, and operational excellence, also contribute to sustainable business and enhanced competitiveness. This book focuses on the ...
Customer Data Sharing Frameworks: Twelve Lessons for the World
1st Edition
By Anton Didenko, Natalia Jevglevskaja, Ross P. Buckley
November 28, 2025
The proliferation of open banking and open finance regimes across the globe demonstrates an ever-increasing interest of policymakers in empowering customers to take control of their data through innovative data sharing frameworks. These frameworks mostly operate within a single (e.g., financial ...
Corporate Short-Term Financing in Europe: The Role of Trade Credit and Bank Loans in Liquidity Management
1st Edition
By Julia Koralun-Bereźnicka
November 26, 2025
Corporate Short-Term Financing in Europe offers a thorough analysis of how European companies manage liquidity, with a particular focus on trade credit and bank credit as key instruments. Drawing on rich cross-country data, this book examines the relationship between trade credit and short-term ...
Artists Labour Market, Cultural Policy and Creative Economy: A Triangular Model in Poland
1st Edition
By Dorota Ilczuk, Anna Karpińska, Emilia Cholewicka
September 29, 2025
Focusing on artists and creators, this shortform book analyses the labour market in the creative economy in the context of cultural policies. Based on a series of studies involving Polish artists spanning 10 years, the book identifies the key factors needed to understand contemporary labour markets...