Routledge Library Editions: Economics and Society
Intervention in the Mixed Economy: The Evolution of British Industrial Policy 1964–72
1st Edition
By Stephen Young, A.V. Lowe
November 21, 2025
Intervention in the Mixed Economy (1974) examines the problem of state intervention in mixed economies by analysing some of the most important aspects of British industrial policy of the early 1970s. The discussion concentrates on the private sector and focuses on the increase in intervention in ...
Investment Economics
1st Edition
By J.L. Carr
November 21, 2025
Investment Economics (1969) examines the process of investment decision-making in firms, looking at the theory of investment and the details of investment theory in business practice. The study of investment theories, prompted by the government and by nationalised industries, led many businesses to...
Marketing in a Competitive Economy
1st Edition
By Leslie W. Rodger
November 21, 2025
Marketing in a Competitive Economy (1965) is a scientific study of marketing in the Western world, taking as a starting point a competitive economy and freedom for consumers. As marketing moved from an exercise in profitably disposing of excess goods, to being primarily concerned with producing ...
Planning and Economic Growth
1st Edition
By A.K. Das-Gupta
November 21, 2025
Planning and Economic Growth (1965) is an analysis of the problem of unemployment in an over-populated, under-developed economy, and of the relation of investment to employment. It goes on to look at the effect of planned economic development on relative prices, in terms of intersectoral ...
Politics and Production in the Early Nineteenth Century
1st Edition
By Clive Behagg
November 21, 2025
Politics and Production in the Early Nineteenth Century (1990) breaks new ground in understanding the culture of the workplace. It addresses debates in social history concerning the nature of the labour process under early capitalism and the language of politics, and it draws these debates together...
Public Opinion, Ideology and State Welfare
1st Edition
By Peter Taylor-Gooby
November 21, 2025
Public Opinion, Ideology and State Welfare (1985) provides a comprehensive explanation of the patterns of ideas about the welfare state held by both academics and by the general public. It argues that the crisis in the welfare state in the 1980s was misunderstood by most writers in the UK – both on...
Readings in Business Cycles and National Income
1st Edition
By Alvin H. Hansen, Richard V. Clemence
November 21, 2025
Readings in Business Cycles and National Income (1953) is a collection of original texts on economics, recessions and employment, looking at the ways that business cycles can affect a nation’s economy, spending power and employment rates....
Routledge Library Editions: Economics and Society
1st Edition
By Authors Various
November 21, 2025
Routledge Library Editions: Economics and Society is a 40-volume set that collects together a range of out-of-print titles that examine the role and impact of economics in society – from the funding of welfare states to foreign investment, levels of employment and unemployment, from trade unions ...
Social Clauses and International Trade: An Economic Analysis of Labour Standards in Trade Policy
1st Edition
By Göte Hansson
November 21, 2025
Social Clauses and International Trade (1983) provides a comprehensive survey of working standards in international trade: the clauses in international trade agreements that call for minimum standards for those working to produce the goods being traded. The author looks at the historical background...
Social Economics
1st Edition
By J. Harry Jones
November 21, 2025
Social Economics (1922) argues that the organisation of economic society is better based on cooperation than competition as it examines the nature and types of industrial organisation, the world of finance, trade unions and labour organisation, and pay for work....
State Enterprise: Business or Politics?
1st Edition
By David Coombes
November 21, 2025
State Enterprise (1971) examines nationalized industries and their political control. It looks at their objectives, and the guidance given to the politicians tasked with running these industries, as well as the qualifications needed, and the performance demanded of them. Many of the contributions ...
State Responsiveness and State Activism: An Examination of the Social Forces and State Strategies that Explain the Rise in Social Expenditures in Britain, France, Germany and Italy, 1870–1968
1st Edition
By Jerald Hage, Robert Hanneman, Edward T. Gargan
November 21, 2025
State Responsiveness and State Activism (1989) provides a unique comparative account of some of the most fundamental social changes that have taken place in the western world and the role played in these changes by the state. It evaluates which models – economic, modernization, political ...