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Doctrine and Ethos in the Labour Party (Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement #12)
By H. M. Drucker. 1979
First published in 1979. In this important study of Labour Party ideology, the author sought to provoke his readers to…
a fundamental re-evaluation of the party and of the relationships between the party, Labour ideology and socialist doctrine. What he had to say would have disturbed left and right wings alike within the party, while remaining accessible to students and general readers at all levels who have an interest in the considered analysis of British politics and the concept of ideology.Planning and the Growth of the Firm (Routledge Library Editions: Management #18)
By John Bridge, J. C. Dodds. 1978
Originally published in 1978. The type of firm focused upon in this study is the large manager-controlled business organisation, although…
the analysis is not restricted to this kind of entity, as firms of all shapes and sizes are finding it increasingly necessary to plan, particularly in environments characterised by rapid innovation and technological change. After an initial survey of various growth theories, the book analyses the vehicles of growth as well as the constraints, so that the process of growth is seen in the context of corporate planning and also within the context of planning in the economy as a whole. Some of the more important contributions to the economic theory of business behaviour are brought together and the implications of these works for micro-economic theory and managerial economics are determined. Particular emphasis is placed upon Marris’s growth model, and the theme of balanced growth – through the analysis of the diversification and financial aspects of planning – is developed. The planning process is also discussed within the public sector and selected case studies of local authority defence and health planning are examined.The Tariff Reform Mirage (Routledge Library Editions: International Trade Policy #26)
By W. E. Dowding. 1913
This book, first published in 1913, records the ten years’ history of the Tariff Reform movement. Using the published declarations…
of both sides of the argument – the Tariff Reformers on one side, Free Traders on the other – the author provides the definitive account of Tariff reform up to the crisis of 1913.This clear and detailed analysis, first published in 1976, of recruitment methods, staff development techniques, staff motivation, and organisational structures…
will be valuable to data processing managers and personnel officers alike. Its practical flavour and real understanding will also be welcomed by general management. The guidelines and detailed checklists will help cut the direct costs of recruiting and the often astonishingly high indirect costs of rapid staff turnover.The aim of this book, first published in 1977, is to use the tools developed by modern microeconomics to provide…
a framework for the analysis of policies towards the allocation of land and the control of activities using land. The principle focus of the book is the general justification for intervention in the urban land and property markets, the principles for evaluating such intervention and the proper role of the public sector within the urban economy. It also considers in some detail the practical problems involved in putting these principles into effect.This book, first published in 1945, is based primarily on some fifty regional reports submitted to the Government between 1941…
and 1943. The original reports, condensed and brought together in this volume, were for the most part prepared by members of university departments of economics or geography.This study, first published in 1979, analysed the international trend towards "industrial democracy" in the industrial relations practices in Europe,…
Japan and the United States. The development of industrial democracy was occurring through the establishment of employee and union participation on boards of directors and, at the shop floor level, in the extension of the role and power of works councils. In other countries the main development was through collective bargaining methods on labor-management relations and management decision-making. The authors examine various countries and explore any highlights, lessons and ideas that might be transferable from one political and social context to another.This study, originally published in 1972, examines the connections between human society and the rest of the universe that are…
attributable to economic activity. These include the inputs from the environment to industry, such as oxygen, used in the combustion of mineral fuels. Also included are the industrial outputs which are fed back into the environment in the form of waste products. An attempt will be made to establish functional relations between the extent and character of economic activity and the flow of materials in both directions between the economy and the environment. This title will be of interest to students of environmental and natural resource economics.Gold and Prices (Routledge Library Editions: The Gold Standard #6)
By George F. Warren, Frank A. Pearson. 1935
This influential study of the relationship between the prices of gold and other commodities was originally published in 1935. In…
it the authors attributed the initial cause of the great depression in the US to the reestablishment of the gold standard in many European countries and resulting deflation. The authors' recommendations were successfully implemented by Franklin D. Roosevelt.The Book of Wheat: An Economic History and Practical Manual of the Wheat Industry (Routledge Revivals)
By Peter Tracy Dondlinger. 1910
First published in 1910, this volume was the result of fifteen years of study in the American Northwest. The author…
contributed to the burgeoning field of industrial and economic history, providing a practical manual for the entirety of the wheat industry at the time. Whilst smaller studies had been published before, this was the first general work on the subject, covering topics including the wheat plant, cultivation, diseases, marketing and production. It was of particular interest to growers, dealers and millers and was accessible to popular readers, students, instructors and experimenters.Regional Demographic Development (Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics #8)
By John Hobcraft, Philip Rees. 1979
Originally published in 1979. This volume brings together the work of distinguished demographers, geographers, statisticians and policy-makers who look in…
detail at various mechanisms by which regional population structures develop. The introduction deals with a synthesis of the area covered in the book and this is followed by the four major sections of population history, fertility, migration and population projections. The book provides the reader with a comprehensive and unique picture of regional populations and demographic development viewed from a variety of temporal and methodological perspectives, and will be of considerable value to all those connected with population studies and regional studies.Originally published in 1979, this study develops a model that explains the rate of adoption of an innovation in an…
industry - i.e the impact of technological change upon the utilization of selected materials and energy resources in the steel, alluminium and metal can industries. Each of the three industries is examined and in subsequent chapters the model is developed, applied and evaluated.The object of this work, first published in 1977, is to examine the history of the economic and monetary union…
(EMU) in the European Community, the policies of the parties involved and the conflicts of interest created in the political and economic environment within which all this has taken place. This title will be of interest to students of monetary economics and finance.Originally published in 1957. This book applies modern economic theory to the subject of land economics. The author is primarily…
concerned to show the role of analysis, with the main emphasis on urban real property. The first part discusses the working of the price mechanism in the property market. The second contains an extension and application of the analysis to property taxation and to two kinds of State intervention in the use of property. The chapter on the taxation of site values, for instance, is an original, general equilibrium analysis of the effects of taxation. The chapter on Compensation and Betterment, which ends the book, includes an analysis of recent British experience.Regional Economic Planning: Generation of Regional Input-output Analysis (Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics)
By R. C. Jensen, T. D. Mandeville, N. D. Karunaratne. 1979
Originally published in 1979. Decision makers at all levels need sufficiently detailed information on regional economic structure in order to…
undertake consistent and comprehensive regional planning. A means is put forward here, elevating the impracticable regional input-output method, to that of an operational planning technique. This development represents a system which facilitates the examination both of the economic structure of individual regions in reasonable detail, and of the regional structure of the state economy. The technique, termed the Generation of Regional Input-Output Tables (GRIT), is designed for general use in the production of regional input-output tables, and other data sources contributing towards the holistic accuracy of the table, thereby providing accurate maximisation of input-output tables within a given budget constraint.Originally published in 1979. In this forcefully argued book, Milton Santos shows that contemporary explanations of urbanization and spatial organization…
in underdeveloped countries are inadequate. This failure is attributable to their origins in theories elaborated to explain the development of advanced Western societies. Santos' work provides the basis for the new theory which is so badly needed. He describes the urban economy in these countries in terms of two circuits of activity – an upper circuit consisting of those enterprises and structures which are based on modern technology and are oriented towards the advanced capitalist world, and a lower circuit comprised of more traditional processes and forms of exchange. The dialectical interaction of these two circuits is seen to generate the patterns of growth, forms of State intervention and, above all, the spatial organization characteristic of Third World economies. This was a revision and translation of L’Espace Partagé (1975).Ten Years of Currency Revolution: 1922-1932 (Routledge Library Editions: The Gold Standard #7)
By Charles Morgan Webb. 1935
Originally published in 1935, this book charts the revolution from a banking to an industrial conception of currency which took…
place between 1922 and 1932. Having failed to stabilise the purchasing power of gold, General Strong stabilised the purchasing power of the dollar, an idea which was revived on an international scale by the Ottawa Conference of 1932. The stabilisation of purchasing power, independently of gold, was subsequently adopted as the keystone of British currency policy.Modern Foreign Exchange (Routledge Library Editions: Exchange Rate Economics)
By Hubert C. Walter. 1923
Originally published in 1923. This book describes the working of the exchanges, and explains post-war fluctuations. It describes bills, documentary…
and blank credits, the mechanism of exchange trading and money market; and explains inflation, floating debts, purchasing power parity, international indebtedness and stabilisation.The Science of Labour and its Organization (Routledge Library Editions: Management #No. 47)
By Josefa Ioteyko. 1919
This study, originally published in 1919, examines certain aspects of industrial psycho-physiology, and explores the importance of the close collaboration…
between science and industry. The four chapters observe questions of apprenticeship, the manner of the economic working of the body, and the limits of industrial fatigue. This title will be of interest to students of business, management, and economics.Originally published in 1970. Management consultants in the United Kingdom are often accused of cloaking their activities in secrecy. The…
confidential nature of consulting work often precludes the publication of case examples and it is only occasionally that press reports appear summarizing particular studies. Consulting firms, however, are in the unique position of gaining experience over the whole range of industry, commerce and government, and consequently have a full opportunity for spear-heading new developments and gathering technical know-how of wide value to managers. Science in Management outlines the methods used by a consulting firm specializing in operational research and computer science and describes numerous case examples taken from a wide range of industries and from the public sector. These examples cover tactical problems, problems which overlap functional boundaries within a company and a few major projects of a strategic nature. The aim of the twenty contributors has been to explain in relatively simple terms, some of the more important techniques and to illustrate by practical examples, the wide scope of the management science approach at all problem levels. The book will be helpful to all those seeking to apply science in management. It is written primarily for managers and those studying modern management methods, but parts of the book will be of interest to specialists as well.