This innovative two-volume set reprints 24 of the most influential articles on corporate finance published during the period 1996–2003. Five topics are covered: capital structure, securities issuance, payout policy, corporate governance and diversification and internal capital markets.

This timely volume offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics of firms’ behaviour and organization, providing an essential outline of the ways in which our understanding of firms and markets is evolving.

Mark Blaug has made a seminal contribution to economic methodology, the history of economic thought and the economics of education. This volume celebrates Professor Blaug’s achievement with a series of high quality essays, written by a distinguished list of economists. An essential purchase...

A wide range of regulatory reform tools and instruments have been developed and implemented over 30 years to help governments improve the effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of fast-growing regulatory systems. To organize this wide body of work into a user-friendly framework, Scott...

Heterodox Economic Theories begins with a paper by Ian Steedman on Sraffian economics and the capital controversy. This is followed by papers on radical economics by Michael Reich and Marx’s economic analysis by Fred Moseley. Professor Moseley has also written an extensive introduction to the...

In the 21st century, the public sector in the nation state has lost some of its insular structure. Its decision-making power has been subjugated to the forces of political and economic liberalism that are sweeping the global economy. This volume provides a framework for the study of spillovers...

The question of free banking – or laissez-faire in money – raises fundamental theoretical, historical and normative issues. Discussions of free banking contemplate the consequences of abolishing government central banks, and allowing unrestricted money issue by private banks.

This collection tackles the issues confronting the up-and-coming economist. The authors include some of the subject’s finest luminaries who offer friendly and invaluable advice as well as providing a more light-hearted look at the publication process. Some articles have become classics in...

This pathbreaking collection brings together a selection of work by Nobel Prize winning authors from the archives of the Institute of Economic Affairs. The laureates whose work is featured made an important contribution to economists’ understanding of a market economy. Nevertheless, it is...