China's economic growth

a miracle with Chinese characteristics

This title outlines the main characteristics of Chinese economic growth during the 1980s and 1990s, and investigates in detail the key determinants of growth, especially capital formulation and productivity issues

The philosophy of Gadamer

Tax systems and tax reforms in Europe

Important changes have taken place since the 1990s in the tax regimes of many European countries. This comprehensive volume provides analyses of tax systems and tax reforms in various European countries including France, Germany, Italy and the United Kingdom. With a preface from Vito Tanzi ...

The academic quality handbook

enhancing higher education in universities and further education colleges

Understanding leadership

Book commssioning and acquisition

Since its first publication, this essential guide to book commissioning has established itself as the one and only 'must-read' for any successful editor, and the core training text used both within publishing houses and on publishing courses worldwide. In this new edition, Davies concentrates on ...

The governance of public and non-profit organisations

what do boards do?

Ed. Chris Cornforth. Governing boards play a crucial role in ensuring that public and non- profit organizations are publicly accountable and perform well. Until now, there have been relatively few detailed empirical studies of what boards do in practice, but this book fills that gap ...

Business continuity management

a crisis management approach

Business Continuity Management (BCM) is broadly defined as a business process that seeks to ensure that organizations are able to withstand any disruption to normal functioning. This exciting and fully comprehensive new text tackles the issue of BCM from both a theoretical and empirical perspective ...

Knowledge, institutions and evolution in economics

Fifty key medieval thinkers

Focussing on individuals whose ideas shaped intellectual life between 400 and 1500, Fifty Key Medieval Thinkers is an accessible introduction to those religious, philosophical and political concepts central to the medieval worldview. Including such diverse figures as Bede and Wyclif, each entry presents a biographical ...

Exchange rates and international financial markets

an asset-theoretic perspective with schumpeterian innovation

This book poses the important question of whether exchange rates are ultimately tied down by economic fundamentals. In a unique approach the subject is analysed from an asset holder's perspective and Streissler takes the reader through an authoritative and wide-ranging study including: *Friedman's ...

Reading retail

a geographical perspective on retailing and consumption spaces

Reading Retail captures contemporary debates on the geography of retailing and consumption spaces. It is constructed around a series of 'readings' from key works, and is designed to encourage readers to develop a sense of engagement with the rapidly evolving debates in this field. More ...

The contribution of Joseph Schumpeter to economics

economic development and institutional change

This collection constitutes an examination of Schumpeter's legacy that is wider than any yet attempted. As one of the key economists of the twentieth century, Schumpeter's economics is viewed in the context of its relation to purer Austrian theories of the free market ...

The case for gold

The role of gold in the world#s exchange system has been hotly contested by leading economists like John Locke, David Hume and Maynard Keynes # who attacked gold # and Jacques Rueff. Nevertheless, the arguments in favour of gold, which includes the quantity theory of money ...

Liberalism

critical concepts in political science

John Rawls

critical assessments of leading political philosophers

Contemporary China

the dynamics of change at the star of the new millennium

A history of the peoples of the British Isles

from 1870 to the present

The story of the Roman amphitheatre

Modern austrian economics

Archaeology of a revival

The late 20th century has witnessed a resurgence of interest in the Austrian tradition in economics. However where once studies concentrated on the major theorists in the field, new directions are emerging. This edition takes up where Kirzner (Classics in Austrian Economics, Pickering & Chatto, 1995 ...

Social Security reform in advanced countries

evaluating pension finance

Critical bibliography of Adam Smith

This is a critical bibliography of Adam Smith. It takes as its starting point the Vanderblue Collection of Smithiana held by the Kress Library and its accompanying published catalogue. This bibliography updates the catalogue, which only had a very limited original circulation. The problem with ...