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Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance


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The fields of economics and finance are constantly expanding and evolving. This growth presents a significant challenge to readers trying to keep up with the latest important insights. Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance presents short books on the latest big topics, leveraging cutting edge research from scholars globally. 

Individually, each title in the series provides coverage of a key topic, whilst collectively, the series forms a comprehensive collection across the whole spectrum of economics and finance.

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Reading John Maynard Keynes A Short Introduction

Reading John Maynard Keynes: A Short Introduction

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Andrés Solimano
April 24, 2024

This book focuses on understanding the thinking of one of the greatest economist of the 20th century:  John Maynard Keynes (JMK) stressing the evolution of his thinking from adherence to the classic Quantity Theory of Money to the development of his own novel theories of unemployment, stagnation ...

Artists Labour Market, Cultural Policy and Creative Economy A Triangular Model in Poland

Artists Labour Market, Cultural Policy and Creative Economy: A Triangular Model in Poland

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Dorota Ilczuk, Anna Karpińska, Emilia Cholewicka
April 01, 2024

Focusing on artists and creators, this shortform book analyses the labour market in the creative economy in the context of cultural policies. Based on a series of studies involving Polish artists spanning 10 years, the book identifies the key factors needed to understand contemporary labour markets...

Crowdfunding European Business

Crowdfunding European Business

1st Edition

By Antonella Francesca Cicchiello
March 14, 2024

This book questions the ability of crowdfunding (especially in the lending and equity-based models) to contribute to the development of European businesses, and therefore, to the relaunch of the European economy. Following a mainly micro (firm-based) approach, the study investigates the advantages ...

The Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Performance Finance, Governance and Risk

The Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Performance: Finance, Governance and Risk

1st Edition

By Elżbieta Bukalska, Anna Wawryszuk-Misztal, Tomasz Sosnowski
February 23, 2024

Financial management encompasses a set of complex activities that should be performed by a professional financial manager. Some financial decisions are riskier than others, and as such can result in higher or lower profitability. This risk-return trade-off is the key aspect of financial management....

Customer Data Sharing Frameworks Twelve Lessons for the World

Customer Data Sharing Frameworks: Twelve Lessons for the World

1st Edition

By Anton Didenko, Natalia Jevglevskaja, Ross P. Buckley
February 15, 2024

The proliferation of open banking and open finance regimes across the globe demonstrates an ever-increasing interest of policymakers in empowering customers to take control of their data through innovative data sharing frameworks. These frameworks mostly operate within a single (e.g., financial ...

Economic Innovations Creating New Instruments to Improve Economic Life

Economic Innovations: Creating New Instruments to Improve Economic Life

1st Edition

By Beth Webster, Bill Scales
January 29, 2024

This book is a series of vignettes about changes to Australian institutions, organisations and systems that have significantly improved economic and social well-being for Australians. Economic system innovations have had a profound impact on our lives, from the invention of banking in the middle ...

Public Policy and the Impact of COVID-19 in Europe Economic, Political and Social Dimensions

Public Policy and the Impact of COVID-19 in Europe: Economic, Political and Social Dimensions

1st Edition

By Magdalena Tomala, Maryana Prokop, Oleksandra Struk
January 29, 2024

This book analyses Europe’s COVID-19 response provided by governments and societies, to assess its influence on the economy from both a short- and long-term perspective. The authors argue that there are three key factors that determine how successful a given country is. The first is the ...

Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies The Need to Prioritise Human Development

Well-being and Growth in Advanced Economies: The Need to Prioritise Human Development

1st Edition

By Maurizio Pugno
January 29, 2024

Economic growth is generally regarded by governments and most ordinary people as a panacea for all problems, including issues caused by the COVID pandemic. But this raises an important question: is further growth in advanced economies able to increase well-being once people’s basic subsistence ...

Monetary Policy and Inflation Quantity Theory of Money

Monetary Policy and Inflation: Quantity Theory of Money

1st Edition

By Mateusz Machaj
November 03, 2023

Recent years have seen a return to high inflation that has sparked debate about the causal role of monetary policy in significant price increases, especially in the context of the quantity theory of money. This book builds upon a long-accepted tradition of quantity theory of money in explaining ...

Markets vs Public Health Systems Perspectives from the Austrian School of Economics

Markets vs Public Health Systems: Perspectives from the Austrian School of Economics

1st Edition

By Łukasz Jasiński
September 25, 2023

Problems related to the functioning of public healthcare systems encourage the search for alternative solutions, for example to ensure improved access to medical services. However, these proposals also require appropriate theoretical support to better present and apply them. This book draws on ...

The Economics of ObamaCare

The Economics of ObamaCare

1st Edition

By Łukasz Jasiński
April 18, 2023

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly referred to as ObamaCare or PPACA), which was signed into US law in 2010, generated a lot of noise from both supporters and detractors. This book argues that the changes introduced by ObamaCare were, in the long history of government ...

Economics, Education and Youth Entrepreneurship International Perspectives

Economics, Education and Youth Entrepreneurship: International Perspectives

1st Edition

By Marian Noga, Andrzej Brzeziński
January 09, 2023

The aim of this book is to justify the importance of economic knowledge for every human being in a country with an economic system based on the market mechanism, and to explain and debunk the myths and stereotypes related to economic education and its effectiveness, particularly among young people....

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