Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
About the Book Series
In an increasingly interdependent world, many of the most important issues are driven by economic forces. This series applies newly developed economic techniques to some of the most pressing contemporary problems. The aim of the series is to demonstrate the relevance of modern economic theory to the modern world economy, and to provide key reading for researchers and policy-makers.
The Political Economy of Natural Gas
1st Edition
By Jerome Davis
December 31, 2025
With greater reserves than crude oil and lower pollutant emissions that any other hydrocarbon, natural gas is posted to take the world by storm. Yet such a failure is littered with obstacles. Sources of natural gas are further and further removed from centres of consumption. Costs of extraction and...
Free Market and Perfect Competition: Global Data Trends
1st Edition
By Weshah Razzak
November 26, 2025
The Free Market is a fundamental building block, a precondition of a free society. Increasingly, we are witnessing monopolistic and competitive monopolistic behavior, and a growing government intervention in the market, e.g., taxes, subsidies, tariffs, and rules and regulations. Such interventions,...
Geoeconomics of the Israel–Palestine Conflict: Governance, Global Trade, and Regional Dynamics
1st Edition
Edited
By Rajesh Kumar, Debasis Neogi, Prasoon M. Tripathi, Dayanand Pandey
September 17, 2025
The Israel-Palestine conflict, a persistent geopolitical dilemma, wields substantial influence on the global economic landscape. With the potential to disrupt international trade, reconfigure intricate supply chains, and significantly impact macroeconomic indicators, this conflict stands as an ...
Corporate Systems in Emerging Market Economies: A Comparison of China and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Ichiro Iwasaki, Xinxin Ma, Satoshi Mizobata
July 31, 2025
This book provides a comparative perspective of various areas of corporate management in two post-socialist regions: China and Eastern Europe. The book employs original firm-level empirical analyses and meta-analyses of the extant literature to investigate the impacts of corporate ownership on firm...
The ASEAN Digital Economy: Towards an Integrated Regional Framework
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Cheung, Xie Taojun
May 27, 2025
Boasting the fastest growing Internet market in the world, Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is accelerating into the digital economy. This book assesses the potential economic impact of digital economy agreements (DEAs) and the readiness of some ASEAN member states to grow the digital...
Nuclear Power Safety and Governance in East Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Soocheol Lee, Weisheng Zhou, Kiyoshi Fujikawa
May 06, 2025
Confronting the challenges of nuclear power governance, this book provides pathways to nuclear safety cooperation between countries in East Asia where regional cooperation is challenged by geopolitical tensions. The book is split into three parts: first looking at nuclear risk and safety ...
The Future of Multilateralism and Globalization in the Age of the U.S.–China Rivalry
1st Edition
Edited
By Norbert Gaillard, Fumihito Gotoh, Rick Michalek
April 14, 2025
Despite the growing consensus that the rise of China is transforming international relations, policy makers and scholars have not sufficiently addressed the geopolitical and geoeconomic implications of a new paradigm, especially since the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russo-Ukrainian war. This book ...
Economic Development Parables: From Siam to Thailand
1st Edition
By Winai Wongsurawat
January 30, 2025
Wongsurawat looks at the history of Thailand since the mid-nineteenth century and uses events to elucidate basic economic models and concepts. He selects defining moments in Thailand’s history to convey key economic ideas worthy of classroom discussion.Written without excessive jargon, the chapters...
The New Industrial Geography: Regions, Regulation and Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Trevor Barnes, Meric S Gertler
January 30, 2025
Drawing on the theoretical resources of institutional economics, The New Industrial Geography opens new perspectives in economic geography. In its focus on historical and geographical context, institutional embeddedness, and tacit rules and formal regulations, institutional economics is shown to ...
Data Governance and the Digital Economy in Asia: Harmonising Cross-Border Data Flows
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Cheung, LIU Jingting, Ulrike SENGSTSCHMID
December 31, 2024
Data governance is the cornerstone of digital economy growth, particularly in Asia, where both the digital economy and the policy space are fast expanding. The chapters collected in this volume delve into how diverse and rapidly evolving data governance models of ASEAN countries and their Asian ...
Economic Uncertainty in the Post-Pandemic Era: Policy Responses and the Way Forward
1st Edition
Edited
By Shilpa Deo, Fatma Feyza Gündüz
December 05, 2024
The global economy has experienced many challenges in recent times, particularly in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, such as dwindling demand, supply chain disruptions, declining growth rates, further pandemic waves, and increasing poverty and inequality to name but a few. Four years after the ...
Foreign Direct Investments in Emerging Asia: An Evaluation of Pandemic and Policy Shocks
1st Edition
Edited
By Paul Cheung, Ammu GEORGE, Xuyao ZHANG
November 28, 2024
Foreign direct investments (FDI) play an integral role in the growth story of Emerging Asian economies. As an essential source of foreign capital, FDI bolsters the path to economic recovery from recessions, including the one caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This book is a collection of essays ...