The Phenomenon of Money (Routledge Revivals)
The Phenomenon of Money (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Thomas Crump

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1136823638

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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: the state, the market and the banking system. However, other uses of money - such as for gambling or the payment of fines - are also taken into account, in an exhaustive, encyclopedic treatment of the subject, which extends far beyond the range of conventional treatises on money.

Simmel and Since (Routledge Revivals)
Simmel and Since (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David Frisby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2011-03-31

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1136838473

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Originally published in 1992, this book, written by one of the world's leading experts on Simmel, provides a fascinating set of insights into a thinker who is fast becoming recognized as the sociologist of modernity; an indispensible resource in confronting post-modernity. It examines the relevance of his work in relation to contemporary debates on culture, aesthetics and modernity.

Problems of Economic Policy (Routledge Revivals)
Problems of Economic Policy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Keith Hartley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2010-10-22

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1136832440

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First published in 1977, this is an applied economics text, in which the basic theory of any introductory economics couurse is applied to a whole range of UK macro- and micro-economic policy issues. The book is designed specifically for first and second year university students, with the aim of demonstrating the relevance of theory to policy, how theory can be applied to policy problems and, in the process, to improve their understanding of the theory itself.

Controlling the Money Supply (Routledge Revivals)
Controlling the Money Supply (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David Gowland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1135009333

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Intended as a successor to Monetary Policy and Credit Control (Croom Helm, 1978; Routledge Revivals, 2013), this book, first published in 1982 with a revised edition in 1984, traces the changes in approach to monetary control in the U.K. throughout the 1970s, and the consequences for policy and the British economy. The book considers the widely-publicised proposals for ‘reserve base’ or ‘monetary base’ control of the financial system, including a critique of the 1980 Bank of England Green Paper. David Gowland concludes with an analysis of the 1979 Conservative Government’s monetary policy. This is a very interesting title, of great relevance to students and academics researching recent British economic history and varying governmental approaches to monetary policy.

Economic Studies (Routledge Revivals)
Economic Studies (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David P. Levine

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 1136721215

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First published in 1977, David Levine's Economic Studies offers a critique and reconstruction of the theoretical conception of economic life. The premise of the study is that only an investigation of the system of elementary economic relations - value, capital, production - can overcome the confusion and misdirection which baffles progress in all areas of economic theory, and lay the foundation for further development of economic science. Levine discusses both the origins of economic science and the character of contemporary economic thought. He presents a critique of the ideas of classical political economy and of the notion of a 'labor theory of value' which excludes the possibility of a science of economic relations.

Monetary Policy and Credit Control (Routledge Revivals)
Monetary Policy and Credit Control (Routledge Revivals)

Author: David Gowland

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 1135009376

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This book, first published in 1978, provides an analysis of British monetary policy and considers what techniques of monetary control were most appropriate to the context of the U.K. during the 1970s and 1980s. David Gowland answers crucial questions surrounding economic management in the period between 1971 and 1976, in particular whether rapid monetary expansion was the cause of the acceleration of U.K. inflation. With an analysis of the government’s experimentation with policy at its core, this is a unique study which will be of interest to students of monetary policy and recent British economic history.

Economic Behaviour (Routledge Revivals)
Economic Behaviour (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Colin Harbury

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-11

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1136646167

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First published in 1980, Economic Behaviour: An Introduction has been written specifically to speed up the settling-in process of students new to the subject of economics. It starts at the shallow end with the family budget and proceeds via an examination of business decision-taking to the analysis of supply and demand in goods and factor markets. The second half of the book deals with the major macroeconomic aggregates, national income, employment and the price level – giving both Keynesian and Monetarist approaches a fair hearing. The book ends with two chapters on economic policy and concludes with a chapter on methods of building and testing economic models – a subject which is both interesting and useful by the time students have grasped the essence of economic analysis. Throughout, the author makes economics relevant and at the same time presents basic theoretical techniques of analysis and controversies in a manner which makes translation to one of the major standard theory texts as smooth as possible.

Economic Myths and the Mythology of Economics (Routledge Revivals)
Economic Myths and the Mythology of Economics (Routledge Revivals)

Author: E. J. Mishan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-10-12

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1136586385

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First published in 1986, Economic Myths and the Mythology of Economics is a polemical study in which the author focuses on the popular myths and misconceptions that colour our understanding of economic issues. Professor Mishan, the internationally recognised economist and expert in the field of resource allocation and cost benefit analysis, undermines the idea that economics is a science. But such are popular myths, he argues, that governments employ battalions of economists in their ongoing attempts to promote economic growth, efficiency and employment. The author challenges the validity and measurement of such concepts as economic efficiency and GNP, and questions the assumption that free competitive markets can operate effectively in a rapidly changing, high-technology society. Professor Mishan foresees in his study further expansion as an unavoidable consequence of continued innovation, while revealing the interconnecting processes by which innovative activity, designed to raise living standards, has begun to erode the moral and psychological foundations of a viable and libertarian society.

National Income and Economic Growth (Routledge Revivals)
National Income and Economic Growth (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Kenneth Kenkichi Kurihara

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 113662581X

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First published in 1961, Kenneth K. Kurihara’s National Income and Economic Growth makes a pioneering effort to integrate national income accounting, income-employment theory and growth analysis as a unified whole. In his belief that growth economics is taught most effectively as a dynamic implication of basic national income theory, Professor Kurihara offers a much fuller treatment of economic growth than most other texts of this genre. The author addresses the complex and pivotal problem of achieving the highest possible rate of growth of real national income while maintaining full employment without inflation, yet the book is confined to the clarification of the technical aspects of the problem. Professor Kurihara endeavours to make allusion to practical application and broad ‘determinants of determinants’ throughout in the varying context of a modern mixed open economy with its dynamic interaction of the private, the public and the foreign trade sectors. The book is intended for intermediate students of macro-economic theory.

The Intelligent Radical's Guide to Economic Policy (Routledge Revivals)
The Intelligent Radical's Guide to Economic Policy (Routledge Revivals)

Author: James E. Meade

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-11-12

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 1136258590

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First published in 1975, this guide to economic policy outlines an economic philosophy for reform for the ‘intelligent radical’ who seeks to address the issues of liberty and equality within society. Among other issues, the book looks at policies to control inflation, to maintain full employment, to set prices and wages, to distribute income and property, and to manage the environment and international trade. Professor Meade expounds in simple language a set of closely interrelated policies designed to enable us to achieve what he describes as ‘ the decent, free, prosperous society which modern science has undoubtedly brought within our grasp.