Economics

Originally published in 1979, Inheritance and Wealth Inequality in Britain provides detailed evidence on the relative importance of inherited and self-made wealth...

This book is about the relationship between firm dynamics, innovation and globalization, the processes that are essential for long term economic growth and welfare creation. This volume deals with these three issues in three sections titled respectively: entrepreneurship, new firm formation and grow..

This book, first published in 1989, assesses the existing tax and benefit systems as being beyond repair, and examines the case for integration. Integrated tax/benefit systems change the basis of entitlement from contribution record and contingency to citizenship and need...

This informative book contributes to research on the interdependence of institutional change in the payments system and monetary policy. The insights provided are invaluable for the implementation of monetary policy...

George Bernard Shaw once said that reasonable people adapt themselves to the world but that the unreasonable adapt the world to themselves. This book explores how ‘unreasonable’ people interact to re-fashion the world around them in fragile economic development. Drawing on empirical research in the ..

First published in 1986, Insurance for Unemployment proposes a radical approach to the reform of unemployment and social insurance...

First published in 1986, Insurance for Unemployment proposes a radical approach to the reform of unemployment and social insurance...

The definitive insider's chronicle of the powerful and growing anti-corporate movement. The New York Times has described Kevin Danaher as the "Paul Revere of globalization's woes."..

This is an examination of the origins and impact of the agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) negotiated during the Uruguay Round of GATT talks...

First Published in 1977. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

This volume commemorates a decade of the 'Malvern Conference'. Written by economists for economists, in celebration of some of the best minds of this century...

This book examines the nature of interfirm networks and their role in promoting industrial competitiveness. Drawing on a variety of case studies the contributors present a balanced theoretical and empirical approach...