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People and Industries (Routledge Library Editions: Industrial Economics #22)
By W. H. Chaloner. 1963
Dr Chaloner considers economic history to be a branch of what the French call the historical sciences and believes that…
it is impossible to treat usefully of the rise, decline and metamorphosis of industries and economics without some consideration of the part played by the efforts of individual men and women in these processes. In this collection of essays, first published in 1963, he provides biographies of certain entrepreneurs, inventors and engineers together with historical surveys of some vital industries.This study of monopolies and trusts in England from Tudor days to the twentieth century was first published in 1909.…
It is a key text in the study of early capitalism and industrial organisation.More Than Management Development: Action Learning at General Electric Company (Routledge Revivals)
By David Pearce, David Casey. 1977
Published in 1977, this is a detailed account of the results of controversial methods as they were applied in a…
major company, when twenty-one managers came together for eight months to grapple with important problems for the purpose of learning some of the skills required for senior management. From their very different points of view, the course organisers, GEC’s own personnel specialists, and the managers involved, describe their experiences and discuss with unusual candour the effects on themselves as individuals and on their organisations. There is no attempt to gloss over the difficulties and the disappointments. This is a book that will be read with attention and profit not just by personnel and management development specialists but by all managers seeking ways to improve business performance.Originally published in 1979. For decades conservationists have argued that increasing population will eventually out-strip the limited natural resources of…
the earth. Economists have responded by saying that any resource scarcity will be forestalled by changes in tastes and technology, induced by the appropriate price signals. This study is an attempt to develop a theoretical framework for analysing some of the issues related to this debate. Using an optimal growth theory framework, the author analyses the problem of optimally allocating a finite stock of the resource over time. In the process the author points out the crucial parameters and value judgments relevant to the various issues. This title will be of interest to students of environmental economics.Regional Policy in Britain (Routledge Library Editions: Urban and Regional Economics)
By Gavin McCrone. 1969
Originally published in 1973. At that time, imbalance in the economic performance of regions had become of increasing concern to…
politicians and economists in many European counties. British policy was of particular interest: not only because the changes of the 1960s made it more comprehensive than in most other countries; but as some sort of regional policy had been in operation for more than thirty years, many lessons could be learned from its evolution. This book provides a comprehensive study of this aspect of British policy. It starts by outlining the nature of the British regional problem, the case for a policy and the contribution of economic theory to the understanding of the regional question. In later Parts the development of British policy up to 1967 is described along with its impact on the performance of individual regions and different measures are evaluated with a view to increasing the effectiveness of policy. The final chapter outlines the regional policy of the European Economic Community and shows what effect membership would have on British policy.The main contention of this book, first published in 1978, is that international trade policy must fit the economic structure…
of the trading countries. The first two chapters, which compare the nineteenth and twentieth century movements towards freer trade, and show the nature of the export structure and pricing, provide the two main themes of the book: policy and the sort of industries on which the policies work.The Outlook for Gold (Routledge Library Editions: The Gold Standard #8)
By Charles Morgan Webb. 1938
Originally published in 1931, this book was written at a time when the utility and value of gold was under…
great scrutiny. Global financial circles were discussing the necessity of reducing the price of gold, pressing for the return of Britain to a gold standard and imposing a managed currency. Against a background of post-war monetary and financial dislocations, the author argues that the unique monetary quality of gold is its liquidity, and its universal acceptability as a natural form of money throughout the world.Originally published in 1929. This balanced combination of fieldwork, statistical measurement, and realistic applications shows a synthesis of economics and…
political science in a conception of an organic relationship between the two sciences that involves functional analysis, institutional interpretation, and a more workmanlike approach to questions of organization such as division of labour and the control of industry. The treatise applies the test of fact through statistical analysis to economic and political theories for the quantitative and institutional approach in solving social and industrial problems. It constructs a framework of concepts, combining both economic and political theory, to systematically produce an original statement in general terms of the principles and methods for statistical fieldwork. The separation into Parts allows selective reading for the methods of statistical measurement; the principles and fallacies of applying these measures to economic and political fields; and the resultant construction of a statistical economics and politics. Basic statistical concepts are described for application, with each method of statistical measurement illustrated with instances relevant to the economic and political theory discussed and a statistical glossary is included.The Foreman on the Assembly Line (Routledge Library Editions: The Automobile Industry)
By Arthur N. Turner, Charles R. Walker, Robert H. Guest. 1956
As part of a 1950s study dealing with various phases of the impact of mass production on human behaviour, this…
volume, originally published in 1956 and now a classic of its time examines the technological environment and the foreman within management, from the foreman's point of view. The book presents case-history material, but behind this presentation and controlling it are broad concepts, one of the most important of which is that of a technological work environment. The book relates its study of a segment in American industry to the borader challenges of human relations to work in the modern world.Originally published in 1979. While the theory of non-renewable resources under competitive and monopolistic market regimes have been relatively well…
developed, almost no attention has been given to the development of a theoretical framework for analysis of the spectrum of mixed market structure between those extremes. The world oil market structure is an example of such an intermediate market structure. The purpose of this title is to develop such a theoretical framework. The study examines non-renewable resource markets in which a profit maximizing producer cartel co-exists with a non-cartel supply sector, which is alternately modelled as consisting of a collection of competitive firms or as exhibiting other exogenously assumed supply behaviours. This title will be of interest to students of environmental economics.Labour Problems of Technological Change (Routledge Library Editions: Labour Economics #8)
By L. C. Hunter, G. L. Reid, D. Boddy. 1970
First published in 1970. This book is concerned with the examination and assessment of the impact of changes in technology…
on companies in three selected industries: printing, steel and chemicals. Its main focus is on the employment and associated labour market effects of technological change; but part of the rationale for the study as a whole has been to relate these effects to the technological environment of each industry. Accordingly, a good deal of attention has been paid to the character of the innovations themselves and to their implications for the industries in general terms. This title will be of interest to students of Business Studies and Economics.The British Coal Industry (Routledge Library Editions: Energy Economics)
By H. Townshend-Rose. 1951
Originally published in 1951, this book is a straightforward account of the British nationalized coal industry in the first half…
of the twentieth century. An introductory chapter gives the history of the industry during the inter-war years and subsequent chapters discuss the complex organization by which coal is marketed at home and overseas. The types and grades of coal and the price structure of the industry are considered. There is a section on finance which explains the capital structure of the industry and statistical charts focus on significant trends in output, man-power, absenteeism, accidents and similar vital features of the coal industry.Teaching Management: A Practical Handbook with Special Reference to the Case Study Method (Routledge Library Editions: Management)
By Harry Newman, D. M. Sidney. 1955
Originally published in 1955. This book, written by two men with experience of teaching management under both British and American…
conditions, examines various tried and tested techniques of management education. Its primary focus is on the case study approach to management education, including the writing of case studies and running a case study session, as a means of stimulating students to take an active part in the learning process.An Essay on Yugoslav Society
By Branko Horvat. 1967
This work, first published in 1913, deals with the causes which led to the imposition of the various taxes which…
were levied down to and including the first income tax act (1799). Indeed, for an understanding of the system of taxation of the nineteenth century a knowledge of that which preceded it is necessary. The author begins by an explanation of the Tudor and Stuart finances before the time of the civil war at which point the break-down of the former system, as well as the need for a much larger revenue, resulted in important changes in the method of taxation.Trade Unions and the Labour Party since 1945 (Routledge Library Editions: The Labour Movement #15)
By Martin Harrison. 1960
First published in 1960. This title is a study of one of the most controversial alliances in British political history.…
The ‘wage freeze’, Bevanism, the block vote, nuclear disarmament: these are only a few of the points at which the unions’ activities within the Labour Party had roused hot debate. Drawing extensively on previously unpublished material and on discussions with past members of the Labour Movement, the author creates a survey of what the partnership really amounted to.Originally published in 1979, Inside the City looks at The City of London as one of the important financial centres…
in the world. The book provides an interesting insight into the City as a major centre of international banking, asking key questions such as, how long the city can last as a major centre, how do its services compare with other centres, and what it can do to maintain its present position? The book examines how the great network of markets and institutions that make up the City operated when the book was written, providing key chapters on the Stock Exchange, institutional and private investors, the banking world, including foreign and merchant banks, the commodity and money markets, Euromarkets, Sterling and insurance. This book will be of interest to those studying or researching in the field of economics and finance.Monetary Policy and Public Finance (Routledge Library Editions: Monetary Economics #3)
By G. C. Hockley. 1970
This title, first published in 1970, provides a comprehensive account of the public finance system in Britain. As well as…
providing a concise outline of the monetary system as a basis for the realistic understanding of public finance, the author also describes the pattern of government expenditure and revenue in the twentieth-century and goes on to give a detailed account of the taxation system up until April 1969. This title will be of interest to students of monetary economics.Britain's Food Supplies (Routledge Library Editions: Food Supply and Policy)
By K. G. Fenelon. 1952
Originally published in 1952. In this fascinating book that examines the statistics, the term food supplies is interpreted in a…
wide sense and it deals among other matters with such subjects as supplies from home agriculture and from overseas; food consumption; controls, rationing and price regulations, and Government purchasing of food. Included are chapters on world food supplies, international organizations concerned with food and agriculture, and development schemes in the Commonwealth and colonies. Food supply from the eighteenth century onwards is outlined and the dependence on imported food is discussed.Systems Analysis in Business (Routledge Library Editions: Management #30)
By John Graham. 1972
Originally published in 1972. Managers at all levels and management students may all expect to become involved increasingly in the…
development of computer-based information systems. This book, based upon practical training given to systems analysts, is designed to help managers achieve a route to successful implementation of computer systems, or to prepare them for involvement in computer projects.