The Affluent Society Revisited

Mike Berry

This book looks at the background to and causes of the global economic crisis that erupted in 2008 and is with us still. It does this by revisiting a classic book of the past, John Kenneth ... More

Brain Drain and Brain Gain: The Global Competition to Attract High-Skilled Migrants

Tito Boeri, Herbert Brücker, Frédéric Docquier, and Hillel Rapoport (eds)

This volume reviews the most recent research on brain drain and brain gain, producing new original results by the means of data sources specifically assembled for this study, and addressing several ...More

Combinatorics: Ancient and Modern

Robin Wilson and John J. Watkins (eds)

The history of mathematics is a well-studied and vibrant area of research, with books and scholarly articles published on various aspects of the subject. Yet, the history of combinatorics seems to ...More

Computer Aided Assessment of Mathematics

Chris Sangwin

This book examines computer aided assessment (CAA) of mathematics in which computer algebra systems (CAS) are used to automatically establish the mathematical properties of expressions provided by ... More

The Crisis of Empire in Mughal North India: Awadh and Punjab, 1707-48

Muzaffar Alam

The period following the death of Aurangzeb has been viewed as the beginning of the decline and decay of the Mughal empire. Examining two contrasting regions of north India — Awadh and Punjab — this ... More

The Digital Flood: The Diffusion of Information Technology Across the U.S., Europe, and Asia

James W. Cortada

No technology seems to have spread so fast around the world in such a short period of time as computers. It was a phenomenon that predated the arrival of the Internet and that began to change how ... More

Dimensions of Economic Theory and Policy: Essays for Anjan Mukherji

Krishnendu Ghosh Dastidar, Hiranya Mukhopadhyay, and Uday Bhanu Sinha (eds)

Anjan Mukherji, arguably one of India's most distinguished economists, is known for his research on the stability of the Walrasian tatonnement, its relation to the weak axiom of revealed preference, ...More

The Economic Development of Latin America since Independence

Luis Bértola and José Antonio Ocampo

Latin America is attracting increasing interest due to the strong economic performance of the last decade and to the political changes that are taking place. This book gives a unique, comprehensive, ...More

The Economic History of India, 1857-1947

Tirthankar Roy

This book examines India's economic history through the lenses of global history. After describing the country's transition to colonialism between 1707 and 1857, it looks at new developments in ...More

The Economics and Management of World Fisheries

Trond Bjørndal and Gordon Munro

Over the past several decades there has been increasing interest in, and concern about, the economics of the world's capture fishery resources. Massive amounts of resource rent are being lost because ...More

Everyday Cryptography: Fundamental Principles and Applications

Keith M. Martin

Cryptography is a vital technology that underpins the security of information in computer networks. This book presents an introduction to the role that cryptography plays in providing information ...More

Financial Access in Post-Reform India

T.A. Bhavani and N.R. Bhanumurthy

This study focuses on the state of financial access in post-reform India. It is analysed from the macroeconomic growth perspective keeping in view the importance of rapid growth for the Indian ...More

The Global Financial Crisis and Asia: Implications and Challenges

Masahiro Kawai, Mario B. Lamberte, and Yung Chul Park (eds)

This book aims to analyse the impact of the global financial crisis of 2007–09 on Asian economies, to assess the policy responses to the crisis in terms of their effectiveness and sustainability, and ...More

Globalization and Economic Nationalism in Asia

Anthony P. D'Costa (ed.)

This book documents the different ways by which Asian governments have been pursuing economic nationalism even as they have been integrating with the world economy. The book challenges the popular ... More

The Great Depression of the 1930s: Lessons for Today

Nicholas Crafts and Peter Fearon (eds)

This collection of papers provides an authoritative introduction to the Great Depression as it affected the advanced countries in the 1930s. The contributions are by acknowledged experts in the field ...More

The Handbook of Market Design

Nir Vulkan, Alvin E. Roth, and Zvika Neeman (eds)

Economists often look at markets as given, and try to make predictions about who will do what and what will happen in these markets. Market design, by contrast, does not take markets as given; ...More

Handbook of Trade Policy for Development

Arvid Lukauskas, Robert M. Stern, and Gianni Zanini (eds)

This book surveys trade theory, policy, and negotiations in a concise, up-to-date manner from an interdisciplinary perspective. It provides a comprehensive overview of the issues that dominate both ...More

India and the British Empire

Douglas M. Peers and Nandini Gooptu (eds)

South Asian History has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance over the past thirty years. Its historians are not only producing new ways of thinking about the imperial impact and legacy on South Asia, but ... More

International Finance: A Survey

H. Kent Baker and Leigh A. Riddick (eds)

This book reflects the new diversity of interest in international finance that summarizes and synthesizes developments in the many and varied areas that are now viewed as having international ... More

Law and Economics with Chinese Characteristics: Institutions for Promoting Development in the Twenty-First Century

David Kennedy and Joseph E. Stiglitz (eds)

Policymakers and economists largely agree that “rule of law” and property rights are essential for a sound economic policy, particularly for most developing countries. But it is becoming increasingly ...More

Matroid Theory

James Oxley

Published in print:2011

Seventy-five years of the study of matroids has seen the development of a rich theory with links to graphs, lattices, codes, transversals,0020and projective geometries. Matroids are of fundamental ...More

Partitioned Lives: Migrants, Refugees, Citizens in India and Pakistan, 1947-65

Haimanti Roy

Partitioned States offers new perspective in the histories of Partition and its aftermath by connecting it to the long drawn out and skewed formation of new national entities: India and ... More

Pathways to Industrialization in the Twenty-First Century: New Challenges and Emerging Paradigms

Adam Szirmai, Wim Naudé, and Ludovico Alcorta (eds)

This book highlights the continuous relevance of industrial development and industrial policy in countries' development strategies. In the early post-war years it seemed that the recipe for ... More

Rethinking the Keynesian Revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell Connection

Tyler Beck Goodspeed

While standard accounts of the theoretical debates in 1930s economic thought invariably pit John Maynard Keynes against Friedrich von Hayek, this reflexive dichotomy is in many respects exceedingly ... More

Riemann Surfaces

Simon Donaldson

The theory of Riemann surfaces occupies a very special place in mathematics. It is a culmination of much of traditional calculus, making surprising connections with geometry and arithmetic. It is an ...More

The Rise of Mutual Funds: An Insider’s View

Matthew P. Fink

In 1940 few Americans had heard of mutual funds. Today, US mutual funds are the largest financial industry in the world, with over 88 million shareholders and over $11 trillion in assets. This book ...More

Social and Economic Impact of SEZs in India

Aradhna Aggarwal

This book is a systematic analysis of the special economic zone (SEZ) programme in India. The book highlights the critical importance not just of investment in SEZs but also of investment in the ...More

Systemic Risk: The Dynamics of Modern Financial Systems

Prasanna Gai

This book opens new ground in the study of financial crises. It treats the financial system as a complex adaptive system and shows how lessons from network disciplines—such as ecology, epidemiology, ... More

Why Has China Grown So Fast For So Long?

Khalid Malik

For analysts China presents a conundrum. It is clear that China has made rapid progress, and the landscape of the world is changing due to China’s unique position. Yet for decades, many have ...More