Routledge Library Editions: Economics and Society
The Retail Environment
1st Edition
By Ken Jones, Jim Simmons
November 21, 2025
The Retail Environment (1990) takes a fresh look at the American retailing system. It describes and explains retailing, with a particular emphasis on the problem of store location, and combines a spatial approach to consumer demand with a corporate and institutional view of supply. Linking the ...
The U.S.S.R.: An Economic and Social Survey
1st Edition
By S.P. Turin
November 21, 2025
The USSR (1948) examines the social and economic make-up of the Soviet Union in the years following the Second World War. It was a time of rapid industrial development as the economy expanded, and also a time when millions of demobbed servicemen desired rewards for the wartime sacrifices – the ...
Trade Signs and their Origin
1st Edition
By Cecil A. Meadows
November 21, 2025
Trade Signs and their Origin (1957) surveys the history and usage of traders’ signs in Britain. The use of distinguishing signs, badges or emblems on shops is an interesting social and economic factor that spread in the Middle Ages, as traders identified and advertised their shops to an illiterate ...
Tradefull Merchants: The Portrayal of the Capitalist in Literature
1st Edition
By John McVeagh
November 21, 2025
Tradefull Merchants (1981) surveys the range of English literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries and explores the successive new lights in which the commercial character has been depicted in poetry, drama and fiction, and thus in society at large. As capitalism began to develop into...
Youth Unemployment
1st Edition
By Michael P. Jackson
November 21, 2025
Youth Unemployment (1985) investigates the sustained rise in the level of youth unemployment in the 1980s. Young people are often seen as innocent victims when unemployment spikes, and it is also frequently the case that they are the most vulnerable of job seekers and the group for which ...