Routledge Library Editions: Economics and Society
State and Economy in Contemporary Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Colin Crouch
November 21, 2025
State and Economy in Contemporary Capitalism (1979) bridges the gap between practiced concerns and the abstract nature of theories surrounding the function of the state in advanced capitalist societies. Representing different intellectual traditions and ideological standpoints, the contributors are...
States of Emergency: British Governments and Strikebreaking since 1919
1st Edition
By Keith Jeffrey, Peter Hennessy
November 21, 2025
States of Emergency (1983) examines the co-ordinated Government planning in Britain to counter major strikes in vital industries, an effort that began in earnest during the aftermath of the First World War. Contingency planning by Whitehall ministers and officials aims to calculate the point at ...
Technological Growth and Social Change: Achieving Modernization
1st Edition
By Stanley A. Hetzler
November 21, 2025
Technological Growth and Social Change (1969) examines the changes to society brought about by rapid developmental changes. The failure of traditional concepts to explain a rapidly changing social world calls for a redirection of effort, for the opening of new avenues of inquiry. This book ...
Technology and the Welfare State: The Influence of Technological Change upon the Development of Health Care in Britain and America
1st Edition
By Stephen Uttley
November 21, 2025
Technology and the Welfare State (1991) explores the relationship between technological innovation, welfare and levels of economic activity. Drawing on a wide literature spanning many disciplines, it explores the influence of technological change upon the development of health service production in...
The Allocation of Resources: Theory and Policy
1st Edition
By Kenneth D. George, John Shorey
November 21, 2025
The Allocation of Resources (1978) examines the main problems associated with resource allocation, such as those arising from economies of scale, externalities, short- and long-run market adjustments, and government intervention in various sectors of the economy....
The Coming of the Welfare State
1st Edition
By Professor Lady Williams
November 21, 2025
The Coming of the Welfare State (1967) explains the climate of opinion which created the old harsh Poor Law and how it changed so that welfare began to be part of the discussion around poverty. It sets the Welfare State in the context pf society, politics and economics....
The Economics of Human Happiness
1st Edition
By Collin Brooks
November 21, 2025
Economics of Human Happiness (1933) is a loose treatise on how to be happy and civilized. The function of applied economics is to make wants coincident and the average citizen doesn’t vote for a particular fiscal system but rather for a possibility of greater happiness. This book examines the ...
The Economics of the Australian Service Sector
1st Edition
Edited
By K.A. Tucker
November 21, 2025
Economics of the Australian Service Sector (1977) assesses the crucial role of service activities in contributing to gross product or absorbing the workforce. It shows how these activities are of great importance to the Australian economy and how they affect structural change, economic efficiency ...
The History of Trade Union Organisation in the North Staffordshire Potteries
1st Edition
By W.H. Warburton
November 21, 2025
The History of Trade Union Organisation in the North Staffordshire Potteries (1931) is an account, by a potter and trade unionist, of trade unionism in the pottery industry of North Staffordshire. It describes the efforts of a century to create a stable organisation capable of negotiating on equal ...
The Industrial Crisis: Its Causes and Its Lessons
1st Edition
By Lieut.-Colonel K.E. Edgeworth
November 21, 2025
The Industrial Crisis (1933) examines the causes and effects of the Stock Market Crash of 1929, looking at the political causes and ramifications as well as the economic ones. It looks at the varied factors – industrial output, inflation, investments, loans and debt – and attempts to draw lessons ...
The Political Economy of Tolerable Survival
1st Edition
Edited
By Maxwell Gaskin
November 21, 2025
The Political Economy of Tolerable Survival (1981) deals with economic issues such as inflation and unemployment in their social and political context and attempts both to isolate and suggest solutions to the problems which confront society. Worsening economic conditions lead to social tensions ...
The Price Level: A Further Problem in National Planning
1st Edition
By Lieut.-Colonel K.E. Edgeworth
November 21, 2025
The Price Level (1935) looks at the mechanisms used by the government to control the trade balance and price level during the nineteenth century, and sets out the reasons why these measures were no longer suitable in the twentieth century. It examines the monetary problems and suggests new ways to ...