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.
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 ...
The Evolution of China’s Political Economy
1st Edition
By Rich Marino
November 28, 2024
For years, China’s rapid economic transformation was hailed as a successful project that lifted hundreds of millions of people out of poverty. However, in recent times, the Chinese narrative has taken a more negative turn in the eyes of the West. Much of this has to do with the US perception about ...
Sustainable Health Promotion Practices and the Global Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Ben Y. F. Fong, Wang-Kin Chiu
October 15, 2024
This book reviews the strategies for the development of sustainable health promotion practices, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), with case examples from the COVID-19 pandemic. Beginning with a historical survey of the global agenda of health promotion over the past decades, the ...
Mega-Regional Trade Agreements and India: Balancing Economic and Strategic Concerns
1st Edition
By Pankhuri Gaur
October 14, 2024
The world has witnessed the proliferation of Mega-Regional Trade Agreements (MRTAs), and this book critically examines a range of issues with MRTAs starting from their genesis to their economic clout over the world, the likely implications for member countries’ integration, and the challenges they ...
The Open Society and its Enemies in East Asia: The Relevance of the Popperian Framework
1st Edition
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By Gregory G. C. Moore
October 14, 2024
The ideas contained in Karl Popper’s The Open Society and Its Enemies—one of the most important tracts in political philosophy in the twentieth century—are relevant to anyone seeking to understand the recent history of the East Asian economies. Even though Popper wrote his tract to provide an ...
China’s Modern Economic Statecraft: A Wealth-Power Dialectic
1st Edition
By Zhang Xiaotong
October 10, 2024
This compelling exploration delves into President Xi Jinping's ambitious efforts to restore China to its historical role as a global leader through innovative economic means. Bridging the philosophies of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, Xi's approach is a unique synthesis of Marxist-Developmentalist ...
Linkage Power Europe: The EU’s Trade Negotiations with China (1975-2019)
1st Edition
By Zhang Xiaotong
October 09, 2024
This book looks at the history of the EU’s trade negotiations with China from 1975 to 2019 from a distinctive perspective – the EU as a linkage power. The author explains how the EU through linkage strategies speaks with one voice, overcomes its weakness in military capabilities and translates its ...
International Economic Policy for the Polycrisis
1st Edition
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By Konrad Raczkowski, Piotr Komorowski
September 17, 2024
The struggle for world leadership between China and the United States, resulting in Russia's war with Ukraine, among other things, underscores the reality of structural changes in the global economy and the global system. This book explains that a new era of egocentrism and polycrisis in a ...