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.
Governing Rapid Growth in China: Equity and Institutions
1st Edition
Edited
By Ravi Kanbur, Xiaobo Zhang
November 08, 2013
After three decades of spectacular economic growth in China, the problem is no longer how to achieve growth, but how to manage its consequences and how to sustain it. The most important consequence, at least as far as Chinese policy makers are concerned, is the rapidly growing inequality, between ...
Macroeconomic Policies and Poverty
1st Edition
Edited
By Ashoka Mody, Catherine Pattillo
November 08, 2013
In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going beyond ...
Production Organizations in Japanese Economic Development
1st Edition
By Tetsuji Okazaki
November 08, 2013
In this important new book, the authors explore how production was organized in the context of the economic development of modern Japan. Production organizations are taken to mean the long-term relationships which economic agents create for production, based on employment contracts or ...
Regional Inequality in China: Trends, Explanations and Policy Responses
1st Edition
Edited
By Shenggen Fan, Ravi Kanbur, Xiaobo Zhang
November 08, 2013
China’s spectacular growth and poverty reduction has been accompanied by growing inequality which threatens the social compact and thus the political basis for economic growth. Chinese policy makers have realized the importance of the problem and have launched a series of investigations and policy ...
Street Entrepreneurs: People, Place, & Politics in Local and Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By John Cross, Alfonso Morales
November 08, 2013
Addressing the current dearth of available literature on this topic, the editors use a range of international case studies to explore street vending and informal economies which continue to be, especially in developing countries, a vital economic driver. This volume collects essays from authors ...
The Economic Geography of Air Transportation: Space, Time, and the Freedom of the Sky
1st Edition
By John T. Bowen
November 08, 2013
Like the railroad and the automobile, the airliner has changed the very geography of the societies it serves. Fundamentally, air transportation has helped redefine the scale of human geography by dramatically reducing the cost of distance, both in terms of time and money. The result is what the ...
The Political Economy of Integration: The Experience of Mercosur
1st Edition
By Jeffrey W. Cason
November 08, 2013
This book assesses South America’s most ambitious attempt at economic integration, Mercosur. It explains the main—and inherent—weaknesses of the integration effort, through explicit comparison with the European experience with integration. Jeffrey Cason argues that the three main reasons for ...
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Multi-Level Government: The Case of EU Cohesion Policy and of US Federal Investment Policies
1st Edition
By Alessandro Ferrara
November 07, 2013
This book provides an original theoretical framework for assessing public investment policies co-financed by Union (Federal) governments. This framework is applied to two important case studies: the EU Cohesion Policy and the US Federal Investment Policies. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Multi-Level ...
Multilateralism and Regionalism in Global Economic Governance: Trade, Investment and Finance
1st Edition
Edited
By Junji Nakagawa
November 07, 2013
Reconciling regionalism and multilateralism is a challenge common to all branches of global economic governance. While the Bretton Woods/GATT (WTO) institutions, decades-old multilateral framework for global economic governance, are facing serious challenges to their effectiveness, regional ...
Singapore, the Energy Economy: From The First Refinery To The End Of Cheap Oil, 1960-2010
1st Edition
By Weng Hoong Ng
November 07, 2013
Singapore might not have survived the 1960s and prospered thereafter had it not built its economy on the foundations of oil refining, trading and support for oil and gas exploration and production. Cheap oil, sound policies and strong government combined to produce the Singapore economic miracle in...
Diversity and Transformations of Asian Capitalisms
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Boyer, Hiroyasu Uemura, Akinori Isogai
September 11, 2013
Among a vast literature on the Asian economies, the book proposes a distinctive approach, inspired by Régulation Theory, in order to understand the current transformations of the Asian economies. The book follows their transformations after the 1997 Asian crisis until the subprime crisis. ...
Enterprise Forms and Economic Efficiency: Capitalist, Cooperative and Government Firms
1st Edition
By Kazuhiko Mikami
September 11, 2013
The book conducts a comparative study on the form of enterprise, focusing on broadly defined cooperative firms in comparison with conventional capitalist firms. It explores the essential advantages and disadvantages of the different types of firms and attempts to answer why capitalist firms are so ...