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by Geoffrey Pilling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Geoffrey Pilling’s treatment of this complex issue in political economy, first published in 1986, concentrates on a review of Keynes’ writings rather than the vast literature that has developed surrounding his work since the Second World War. It does, however, consider the work of the ‘Left...
by Stewart Clegg, Paul Boreham, Geoff Dow
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. The focus is on the organizational mechanisms of class cohesion and division, theoretically deriving from a neo-Marxian perspective. Chapters...
Contemporary Economic Analysis (Routledge Revivals)
Papers Presented at the Conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics 1978
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
First published in 1980, this book collects 17 lectures presented at the annual conference of the Association of University Teachers of Economics covering a wide range issues and debates. They include new theoretical points, criticisms of existing theory, the reporting of empirical studies and their...
Prosperity and Public Spending (Routledge Revivals)
Transformational growth and the role of government
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
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...
by Elisabeth Croll
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1978, Feminism and Socialism in China explores the inter-relationship of feminism and socialism and the contribution of each towards the redefinition of the role and status of women in China. In her history of the women’s movement in China from the late nineteenth century onwards,...
Privilege in the Soviet Union (Routledge Revivals)
A Study of Elite Life-Styles under Communism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
First published in 1978, this unique work throws much-needed light upon the exact nature of privilege and elite life-styles in the contemporary Soviet Union, under the Communist regime. Dr Matthews' study places these life-styles in a historical perspective, and characterises, in sociological terms,...
by Steven Yearley
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
First published in 1988, this book provides students with a way to increase their understanding of the role of science and technology in society. Steven Yearley draws on and develops ideas from research in the sociology and politics of science to address, in particular: the nature of scientific knowledge...
by Thomas Crump
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
First published in 1981, this book concerns itself with the different ways in which money is used, the relationships which then arise, and the institutions concerned in maintaining its various functions. Thomas Crump examines the emergence of institutions with familiar and distinctive monetary roles:...
Circulation in Population Movement (Routledge Revivals)
Substance and concepts from the Melanesian case
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
First published in 1985, this collection of essays deals with processes of population movement and how they have operated over time. It is also about people: Melanesian’s who number some five million and inhabit the region stretching from the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya to the Independent...
by Brian Barry
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Since its publication in 1965, Brian Barry's seminal work has occupied an important role in the revival of Anglo-American political philosophy. A number of ideas and terms in it have become part of the standard vocabulary, such as the distinction between "ideal-regarding" and "want-regarding"...
by Jim Tomlinson
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Originally published in1985, Jim Tomlinson charters the route of British macroeconomic policy in the post-war era. This book argues that the objectives of macroeconomic policy have not been constant; that the emphasis has shifted from one item to another over time; and that this uncertainty and inconsistency...
The Transformation of England (Routledge Revivals)
Essays in the economic and social history of England in the eighteenth century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2013
First published in 1979, The Transformation of England discusses the creation in late eighteenth century England of the industrial system and thereby the present world. Professor Mathias poses questions about the nature of industrialization, social change and historical explanation, issues that are...
Insuring War
Sovereignty, Security and Risk
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Insurance is a central, if until now ignored, instrument of war in the modern period. Ever since the eighteenth century, interaction between governments and insurers in Western countries has materialised in the form of war risk schemes that have contributed to the waging of war and the preservation...
Keynes' Economics (Routledge Revivals)
Methodological Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2009
First published in 1985, this title includes contributions from leading economists and addresses many seminal aspects of Keynes' work and methods. This revival will be of particular interest to lecturers and advanced students of economics.