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 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 ...