The changing economic geography of globalization

reinventing space

The process of globalization has had profound, often destabilizing, effects on space, at all levels (i.e. local, regional, national, international). This revealing book analyzes, both theoretically and empirically, the effects of globalization over space. It considers, through a dialogue among different paradigms, the ways ...

Cultural heritage

critical concepts in media and cultural studies

"Cultural Heritage" is a new title in the Routledge Major Works series, "Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies". Edited by Laurajane Smith of the University of York, UK, this four- volume collection brings together the essential Anglophone literature of heritage studies. Encompassing both contemporary ...

Competition and profitability in European financial services

strategic, systematic and policy iusses

From roman provinces to medieval kingdoms

From a prestigious figure in late antique and medieval studies, this collection of essays by leading scholars provides a thorough reassessment of the medieval era which questions how, when and why the Middle Ages began, and how abruptly the shift from Roman Empire to Barbarian ...

Liberalism against liberalism

theoretical analysis of the works of Ludwig von Mises and Gary Becker

The defence of the market and economic freedom has been the main objectives of the investigations by liberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, F Hayek and L Von Mises. Bearing in mind that the first two economists are the maximum exponents of the ...

The history of company

the development of the business corporation 1700-1914

The company is core to the development of the last 300 years. This two-part collection of rare texts explores the changing economic, social and political role of the Anglo-American firm. Focusing on its formative development between the later seventeenth and the early twentieth centuries, the ...

Histories of the normal and the abnormal

social and cultural histories of norms and normativity

This fascinating volume tackles the history of the terms "normal" and "abnormal". Originally meaning "as occurring in nature", normality has taken on significant cultural gravitas, and this book recognizes and explores that fact. The essays engage with the concepts of the normal and the abnormal ...

Public understanding of science

a history of communicating scientific ideas

Between the French Revolution (1789) and the 'Chemists' War' (1914-18), science became culturally and economically crucial: it seemed pervasive but difficult. David Knight explores how science was disseminated in this period, moving from a time in the late eighteenth century when science was not widely ...

Responses to colonization in the Iron-Age Mediterranean

The first study to bring together such a breadth of data, this book compares responses to colonization in the Iron-Age Mediterranean. From North Syria to Sicily and North Africa, Tamar Hodos explores the responses to these colonies in areas where Greeks and Phoenicians were in ...

The European Union and the public sphere

a deliberative democratic perspective

Nationalism and globalism

debating future projections

A fresh examination of the evolving relationship between nationalism and globalization. This new study tackles the key questions this complex relationship is generating: Are we entering a new phase in the relationship between internationality and nationalism, or is nationalism being rendered irredeemably contradictory, and anachronistic ...

David Ben-Gurion, Zionism, and American Jewry, 1948-1963

Based on archival material, this intriguing book examines David Ben- Gurion's influence on the relationship between the state of Israel, the Zionist Organization and American Jewry between 1948 and 1963 when he served as Prime Minister and Minister of Defence. The author discusses how ...

Equilibrium and uncertainty

Majumdar Mukul has been a recognized authority in the field of general equilibrium theory for some years now. In this important new book, he takes the pulse of the field - still fundamental to economic theory as a whole. The topics covered include Pareto optimality, Cournot-Nash ...

Accounting, accountants and accountability

poststructuralist positions

In the business world, recent years have seen a growing acknowledgement of the value of intangible assets rather than physical assets. This has precipitated a crisis in the accounting industry: the accounting representations relied upon for years can no longer be taken for granted. Here ...

The history of financial disasters

1763-1995

This three- volume reset edition looks at the origins and consequences of seminal financial crises throughout history, combining contemporary texts from nineteen financial disasters between 1763 and 1994 with academic interpretations of the major causes and consequences of each crisis. Rare public and private papers ...

Consumerism in world history

the global transformation of desire

This second edition of "Consumerism in World History" draws on recent research of the consumer experience in the West and Japan, while also examining societies less renowned for consumerism, such as Africa. By relating consumerism to other issues in world history, this book forces reassessment ...

Evolution of markets and institutions

a study of an emerging economy

The new institutional economics has been one of the most influential schools of thought to emerge in the past quarter century. Taking its roots in the transaction cost theory of the firm as an economic organization rather than purely a production function, it has been ...

Why read mill today?

John Stuart Mill is one of the greatest thinkers of the nineteenth century. But does he have anything to teach us today? His deep concern for freedom of the individual is thought by some to be outdated and inadequate to the cultural and religious complexities ...

Routledge philosophy guidebook to Derrida on deconstruction

Jacques Derrida is one of the most influential and controversial philosophers of the last fifty years. "Derrida on Deconstruction" introduces and assesses: Derrida's life and the background to his philosophy; the key themes of the critique of metaphysics, language and ethics that characterize his ...

The Routledge Companion to Decolonization

This is an essential companion to the process of decolonization - perhaps one of the most important historical processes of the twentieth century. Examining decolonization in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and the Pacific, the "Companion" includes: thematic chapters; a detailed chronology and thorough glossary; biographies of ...

Urban geography

More than simply examining the new geographical patterns forming within cities, this third edition of "Urban Geography" also investigates the way geographers have sought to make sense of this urban transformation. Author Hall critically synthesizes key literatures in the following areas: approaches to urban geography ...

Habermas

the key concepts

An independently minded champion of 'the project of modernity' in a supposedly post-modern age, Jurgen Habermas (1929- ) is one of the most widely influential thinkers of our times. An easy-to-use A-Z guide to a body of work that spans philosophy, sociology, politics, law and cultural ...