Economics of industrial organization

The Political Economy of International Financial Instability (1986) discusses international financial problems as a global issue, concentrating on systemic interactions.

The countryside has often been marginalised in discussions of economic and societal development, in favour of the urban.

White-Collar Proletariat (1980) explores the major changes in the industrial and political behaviour of British civil servants in the 1970s.

Modern advertising was created in the US between 1870 and 1920 when advertisers and the increasingly specialized advertising industry that served them crafted means of reliable access to and knowledge of audiences.

This book, first published in 1923, examines the states of Britain's rail network at the cusp of great change.

This collection provides exceptional descriptive and analytical insights into changes in corporate governance settings in ten Eastern and Western European countries.

The uranium market is a particularly volatile and unpredictable international commodity market.

Adopting evolutionary and behavioral approaches, this volume presents the latest research advances in knowledge competencies and human capital, as well as the changing structural dynamics, highlighting their links with entrepreneurial activities.

If evolutionary economics is to compete with neoclassical economics as a general-purpose economic theory, it needs to incorporate new aspects of socioeconomic reality, such as institutions of all types, including technical, scientific, and political.

First published in 1990, this is an analysis of the history of western economics from Petty to Supply-Side, through the prism of the controversies over productive labour and its product.

Originally published in 1980.

Of the 54African states, only South Africa is categorised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) amongst industrialised countries.

This second edition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the field of entrepreneurship, principally from an economics perspective.

Shipbuilding in the United Kingdom provides a systematic historical account of the British Shipbuilders Corporation, first looking at this major industry under private enterprise, then under state control, and finally back in private hands.

This is a book about urban complexity - how it evolves and how it gets destroyed.

Privatization was the fundamental pillar of transition from plan to market in former socialist countries.

The notion that there is no alternative to capitalism emerged after the fall of the Berlin Wall and made rapid headway due to increasing economic globalisation.

Islamic Macroeconomics proposes an Islamic model that offers significant prospects for economic growth and durable macroeconomic stability, and which is immune to the defects of the economic models prevailing both in developed and developing countries.

This collection brings together international experts from different continents to examine creativity and innovation in the cultural economy.

Originally published in 1987, this book brings together leading authorities from Germany and the USA who analyze how the East German economy actually operated - planning and management, pricing, investment and innovation, the financial system, agriculture and foreign trade (including the special concessions granted by the then Federal Republic of Germany).

In this book, Phelps and Parente explore the US health care system and set out the case for its reform.

China is in the midst of transitioning from a manufacturing-based economy to one driven by innovation and knowledge.

The application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the healthcare sector is certain to boost levels of automation and productivity but, paradoxically, it will also increase the availability of "e;first line competence.

First published in 1999, the main feature of this book is its multidisciplinary nature, since the book focuses on the complexity of spatial/ economic networks from several methodological points of view.

This book addresses how economic spaces dynamically change within the context of the global knowledge-based economy.

Aerospace is a major world industry.

Originally published in 1985, Land Rent, Housing and Urban Planning looks at the crucial social relationships associated with land ownership, and how these have played a crucial role in the economic development of many societies.

Over the past 50 years the global labour market is transforming from reliable employment to low-wage and unstable informal and precarious jobs.

This is the first comprehensive book on Military Cost-Benefit Analysis and provides novel approaches to structuring cost-benefit and affordability analysis amidst an uncertain defense environment and cloudy fiscal prospects.

Smart Evaluation and Integrated Design in Regional Development puts forward an alternative approach to evaluation in spatial planning - one that focuses on 'territory' and 'landscape'.

This new book investigates how the relationships of international business networks (one buyer-multiple suppliers) develop over time, looking at the geographical angle as well as an actor composition point of view.

Made to Work analyses the conditions of mobile knowledge work (MKW) in contemporary worklives, contrasting and drawing parallels among three highly significant sectors of the Knowledge Economy: academia, information communication technology (ICT) management, and digital creative work.

Monetary incentives, as a driving force for human behavior, are the main theme of this book.

Provides a comprehensive examination of the economic analysis of monopsony.

Significantly extended from the first edition and published in response to the new international standard ISO55000, this book on physical asset management (2nd Ed.

The neo-Schumpeterian interpretation dominating the field of evolutionary economics puts focus on technological innovation, Darwinian evolution and economic growth, and has proven to be fertile ground for the past forty years.

This book is about the currently evolving global standardization of corporate workplace models and the challenges this poses for their implementation in a local context.

This book tells you everything you need to know about international construction: the companies, their markets, the types of projects they build, how they compete and operate and how it affects us all.

The fourth edition of Quantity Surveyor's Pocket Book remains a must-have guide for students and qualified practitioners.

This book examines the role of experts and expertise in the dynamics of globalisation since the mid-nineteenth century.

A nuanced examination of how antitrust law must change to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century economy.

This title was first published in 2002: The information revolution has deeply influenced the development of Europe's large cities.

This book focuses on the analysis of financial data and innovative results of Zhongguancun NEEQ listed Firms, and objectively evaluates the growth ability of them.

First published in 1991, this book offers a thorough examination of the decline of heavy industry in industrialised countries in the West, which focuses on problems in the shipbuilding industry.

companies to diversify may outweigh the costs of doing so, and that some traditional regulatory concerns may be excessively restrictive.