Economics

Over the past several years, productivity improvement has become an increasingly vital economic issue for economies and individual firms. This book, first published in 1996, examines empirically relationships between changes in catalyst financial commitments and productivity/profitability changes...

Collecting the results of 'fieldwork' investigations in factories and retail outlets, this book measures output before and after a change in methods of remuneration. The link between productivity and stress is explored...

Professional Practices..

In this title, first published in 1987, the author discusses the economic and industrial circumstances in Britain under which profit-sharing and co-partnership came into being. The author also assesses the role of profit-sharing and co-partnership in the development of modern management practices an..

"Property and Prophets" is a concise history of the rise and subsequent triumph of capitalism. Focused primarily on England until 1800 and the United States since 1800, the book's economic history is interspersed with the history of ideas that evolved along with the capitalist system...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Prosperity and Depression..

In a dramatic and well-argued challenge to the prevailing wisdom, Prosperity and Public Spending, first published in 1988, contends that the failure of Keynesian economics has been due to its timidity. Far from contracting, the government must expand its powers and activities, in order to achieve an..

This book, first published in 1890, determines whether protectionism or free trade better accords with the interests of labour – particularly with regards to the raising of wages. It analyses the popularity of protection in the face of the evidence of its fallacies, and examines the principle of fre..

First Published in 1973. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

By examining countries in four continents this book discusses the underlying causes of the problems associated with public enterprise, and critically examines some of the solutions that have been adopted...

Public enterprises remain of fundamental importance in advanced economies, and this volume characterises them as hybrids, influenced by markets and ministries...