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.
Cash, Corruption and Economic Development
1st Edition
By Vikram Vashisht
June 30, 2021
Have you ever asked yourself what gives comfort to someone who demands and accepts a bribe, sells drugs or commits professional crimes for money? The majority of these people are not wealthy, and they accept small amounts of money every day from their victims.Cash, Corruption and Economic ...
Cities, Economic Inequality and Justice: Reflections and Alternative Perspectives
1st Edition
By Edwin Buitelaar, Anet Weterings, Roderik Ponds
June 30, 2021
Increasing economic inequality in cities, and the spatial translation of that into more segregated neighbourhoods, is top of the political agenda in developed countries. While the overall living standards have increased in the last century, the focus has now shifted from poverty to economic ...
Cryptocurrencies: A Primer on Digital Money
1st Edition
By Mark Grabowski
June 30, 2021
Already in just a decade of existence, cryptocurrencies have been the world’s best-performing financial asset, outperforming stocks, bonds, commodities and currencies. This comprehensive yet concise book will enable the reader to learn about the nuts and bolts of cryptocurrencies, including their ...
Knowledge Infrastructure and Higher Education in India
1st Edition
By Kaushalesh Lal, Shampa Paul
June 30, 2021
This short book examines the availability and adoption of new education technologies in higher education institutions in India. It provides a summary of the activities in which such technologies are being used and the catalytic factors for such adoptions. The book also evaluates the impact on ...
Microfinance: Research, Debates, Policy
1st Edition
By Bernd Balkenhol
June 30, 2021
As microfinance is increasingly being absorbed into broader debates on financial inclusion and sustainable development, there is a growing number of professionals operating in international relations and development who are often confronted with sweeping statements about the alleged benefits and ...
Reinventing Accounting and Finance Education: For a Caring, Inclusive and Sustainable Planet
1st Edition
By Atul Shah
June 30, 2021
There is a growing acknowledgement of the role played by finance theory and experts in the 2008 global banking crash, and their ongoing contributions to risks in the financial system. Some argue that finance theory is deeply ideological and the academy has been captured and corrupted by financial ...
The Essentials of M&A Due Diligence
1st Edition
By Peter Howson
June 30, 2021
How can you be sure you are buying the company you think you are? Are you sure it is as good as the seller says? How can you be certain unexpected costs and obligations will not suddenly appear once you are the owner and responsible for them? How best can you arm yourself for the negotiations? Have...
What Drives China’s Economy: Economic, Socio-Political, Historical and Cultural Factors
1st Edition
By Qing-Ping Ma
June 30, 2021
The spectacular economic growth experienced by China since 1978 has often been hailed as the "China Miracle". Many economists have tried to understand the forces behind China’s phenomenal growth and the explanations can be divided into two broad schools of economic thought — one school of thought ...
International Macroeconomics for Business and Political Leaders
1st Edition
By John Marthinsen
March 31, 2021
International Macroeconomics for Business and Political Leaders explains the fundamentals of international macroeconomics in a very efficient and approachable text. It explores key macro concepts such as growth, unemployment, inflation, interest, and exchange rates. Crucially, it also examines how ...
The Vision of a Real Free Market Society: Re-Imagining American Freedom
1st Edition
By Marcellus Andrews
March 31, 2021
Free market capitalism has created a divided American society. Conservative economic and social policy thinking drove the Right’s Project from 1980 to its collapse in 2008, leaving the world in ruins and fascism on the march. The Vision of a Real Free Market Society challenges the Left to create ...
Ethics and Responsibility in Finance
1st Edition
By Paul H. Dembinski
June 30, 2020
From the mid-1970s until the crisis in 2007, the world of finance enjoyed thirty euphoric years as the general public, businesses and governments put their blind trust in financial techniques, professions and institutions. Shaken up by a structural crisis and a crisis of legitimacy, today’s ...
The Malaysian Banking Industry: Policies and Practices after the Asian Financial Crisis
1st Edition
By Rozaimah Zainudin, Chan Sok-Gee, Aidil Rizal Shahrin
June 30, 2020
The book provides students and academics in finance and banking with the most recent updates and changes in the Malaysian banking sector post-AFC period. The book explores the evolution of banking policies and practices after the "Tomyam Goong Crisis" and investigates the health of ...