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.
The Digital Transformation of Banking
1st Edition
By Bilal Sucubaşı, Andrijana Bojadzievska Danevska, Savica Dimitrieska, Elena Parnardzieva Stanoevska
August 31, 2025
The banking sector is evolving rapidly due to technological advancements, regulatory changes, and shifting customer expectations. This book addresses these changes by comprehensively analysing key areas where technology intersects with banking. It provides a detailed and insightful examination of ...
International Trade, Regulation and the Global Economy: The Impact of Anti-Competitive Market Distortions
1st Edition
By Shanker Singham
August 18, 2025
The barriers between the voluntary exchange of willing buyers and willing sellers have progressively been reduced through trade liberalisation, competition and better property rights protection. However, the world has done significantly less well in reducing barriers involving competition and ...
The Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Performance: Finance, Governance and Risk
1st Edition
By Elżbieta Bukalska, Anna Wawryszuk-Misztal, Tomasz Sosnowski
July 30, 2025
Financial management encompasses a set of complex activities that should be performed by a professional financial manager. Some financial decisions are riskier than others, and as such can result in higher or lower profitability. This risk-return trade-off is the key aspect of financial management....
Monetary Policy and Inflation: Quantity Theory of Money
1st Edition
By Mateusz Machaj
June 27, 2025
Recent years have seen a return to high inflation that has sparked debate about the causal role of monetary policy in significant price increases, especially in the context of the quantity theory of money. This book builds upon a long-accepted tradition of quantity theory of money in explaining ...
The Economics of ObamaCare
1st Edition
By Łukasz Jasiński
October 09, 2024
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as ObamaCare or PPACA), which was signed into US law in 2010, generated a lot of noise from both supporters and detractors. This book argues that the changes introduced by ObamaCare were, in the long history of government ...
Economic Innovations: Creating New Instruments to Improve Economic Life
1st Edition
By Beth Webster, Bill Scales
January 29, 2024
This book is a series of vignettes about changes to Australian institutions, organisations and systems that have significantly improved economic and social well-being for Australians. Economic system innovations have had a profound impact on our lives, from the invention of banking in the middle ...
Public Policy and the Impact of COVID-19 in Europe: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions
1st Edition
By Magdalena Tomala, Maryana Prokop, Aleksandra Kordonska
January 29, 2024
This book analyses Europe’s COVID-19 response provided by governments and societies, to assess its influence on the economy from both a short- and long-term perspective. The authors argue that there are three key factors that determine how successful a given country is. The first is the ...
Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies: The Need to Prioritise Human Development
1st Edition
By Maurizio Pugno
January 29, 2024
Economic growth is generally regarded by governments and most ordinary people as a panacea for all problems, including issues caused by the COVID pandemic. But this raises an important question: is further growth in advanced economies able to increase well-being once people’s basic subsistence ...
Markets vs Public Health Systems: Perspectives from the Austrian School of Economics
1st Edition
By Łukasz Jasiński
September 25, 2023
Problems related to the functioning of public healthcare systems encourage the search for alternative solutions, for example to ensure improved access to medical services. However, these proposals also require appropriate theoretical support to better present and apply them. This book draws on ...
Environmentally Sustainable Industrial Development in China
1st Edition
By Yanqing Jiang, Xu Yuan
May 31, 2023
There is a growing concern among Chinese researchers and policymakers about China’s industrial development being unsustainable and the irreversible depletion of natural resources and deterioration of the ecological environment. The relationship between industrial development, pollution and the ...
Economics, Education and Youth Entrepreneurship: International Perspectives
1st Edition
By Marian Noga, Andrzej Brzeziński
January 09, 2023
The aim of this book is to justify the importance of economic knowledge for every human being in a country with an economic system based on the market mechanism, and to explain and debunk the myths and stereotypes related to economic education and its effectiveness, particularly among young people....
The Economics of Intellectual Property and Openness: The Tragedy of Intangible Abundance
1st Edition
By Bartłomiej Biga
January 09, 2023
This book focuses on the economic aspects of intellectual property (IP). It includes considerations of the wider category of intangible assets. However, the primary focus is devoted to patents which the author argues are the most vivid example of the Tragedy of Intangible Abundance (TIA). TIA ...