This book is an integrated collection of a dozen of Peter Earl’s lively and thought-provoking essays, carefully edited and updated. Theoretical topics include the prediction of corporate behaviour, the economic foundations of marketing and shopping mall design, pricing strategy and its...

The concept of quality measurement is revived and given new meaning in this innovative new book. Steven Payson argues that quality measurement is an important issue in the study of price indices and in the additional areas of product innovation and evolutionary change. The user-value definition...

To understand why some regions grow and others stagnate, we need to understand the interactions between economic growth, economic geography and the economics of innovation. Each of these individual approaches has strengths and weaknesses, but when integrated it is possible, as evidenced by this...

This comprehensive book charts the development of economic thought in Japan and reveals how leading Japanese economists tried to understand and cope with significant economic and social problems in the process of modernization. It sheds new light on the nature and degree of intellectual...

Is economics becoming a hard science? What power does it offer to explain, predict or influence economic events? These provocative questions are addressed in this major book by a group of acclaimed economists which discusses the scientific status of their discipline and its research agenda.

With selected readings ranging from the mercantilists of the 16th and 17th centuries to contemporary 20th-century authors, Free Trade versus Protectionism addresses one of the oldest controversies in economic science – the fundamental opposition of these two doctrines. It is the first book...

This major directory provides for the first time up-to-date information on the work of economists in the United Kingdom. It will be an indispensable guide for economists and an invaluable reference source for the business community, officials in government and higher education.

This comprehensive two-volume collection presents key papers on the relationship between international trade and trade policy on the one hand, and poverty and inequality on the other. These relationships highlight the connections between the WTO and income distribution. The analytical and policy...

This two volume set reprints 37 important contributions dealing with international trade throughout the world during the rise of Great Britain to world dominance, the industrialization of Western Europe, and the political and economic expansion of European powers into Asia, Africa and the Americas.

This authoritative and wide-ranging collection presents over fifty of the most important articles on forecasting – a technique that lies at the heart of economic policy and decision-making. This comprehensive two volume set presents the major papers in macroeconomic forecasting and policy...