An introduction to the life, work and ideas of the people who have shaped the economic landscape from the sixteenth century to the present day. Now in a third edition, it considers how major economists might have viewed challenges such as the continuing economic slump, high unemployment and the sovereign debt problems which face the world today, it includes entries on:

Paul Krugman

Hyman Minsky

John Maynard Keynes

Adam Smith

Irving Fisher

James Buchanan

Fifty Major Economists contains brief biographical information on each featured economist and an explanation of...

Politics: The Key Concepts is an up-to-date and broad-ranging introduction to the terms that lie at the heart of political discourse. Entries are drawn from areas such as political theory, international politics, political science and methodology. As well as explaining core, established principles, this informative guide explores some of the more complex, topical and contested concepts from the world of politics. Concepts covered include:

• Capitalism
• Class
• Identity
• Institutionalism
• Referendum
• Marxism
• Pluralism
...

Politics: The Key Concepts is an up-to-date and broad-ranging introduction to the terms that lie at the heart of political discourse. Entries are drawn from areas such as political theory, international politics, political science and methodology. As well as explaining core, established principles, this informative guide explores some of the more complex, topical and contested concepts from the world of politics. Concepts covered include:

• Capitalism
• Class
• Identity
• Institutionalism
• Referendum
• Marxism
• Pluralism
...

Neoliberalism: The Key Concepts provides a critical guide to a vocabulary of terms that have become dominant over the past thirty years. The language of neoliberalism both expresses and helps to create a vision of political, economic and social life which some find appealing and others find alarming. Such concepts are, however, often difficult to understand, particularly because they contain multiple meanings and are informed by power relations. This book will unpack, explore and critique key terms such as:

• Capitalism
• Choice
• Development
• Flexibility
...

Fifty Modern and Contemporary and Dramatists is a critical introduction to the work of some of the most important and influential playwrights from the 1950s to the present day. The figures chosen are among the most widely studied by students of drama, theatre and literature and include such celebrated writers as:

- Samuel Beckett

- Caryl Churchill

- Anna Deavere Smith

- Jean Genet

- Sarah Kane

- Heiner Muller

- Arthur Miller

- Harold Pinter

- Sam Shephard

Each short essay is written by one of...

Fifty Modern and Contemporary and Dramatists is a critical introduction to the work of some of the most important and influential playwrights from the 1950s to the present day. The figures chosen are among the most widely studied by students of drama, theatre and literature and include such celebrated writers as:

- Samuel Beckett

- Caryl Churchill

- Anna Deavere Smith

- Jean Genet

- Sarah Kane

- Heiner Muller

- Arthur Miller

- Harold Pinter

- Sam Shephard

Each short essay is written by one of...

Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this field.

Now fully updated, this third edition includes entries on:

• Material Culture
• Environment
• Human Rights
• Hybridity
• Alterity
• Cosmopolitanism
• Ethnography
• Applied Anthropology
• Gender
• Cybernetics

With full cross-referencing and revised further reading to point students towards the latest writings in...

Fifty Key Thinkers on History is an essential guide to the most influential historians, theorists and philosophers of history. The entries offer comprehensive coverage of the long history of historiography ranging from ancient China, Greece and Rome, through the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. This third edition has been updated throughout and features new entries on Machiavelli, Ranajit Guha, William McNeil and Niall Ferguson. Other thinkers who are introduced include:

• Herodotus
• Bede
• Ibn Khaldun
...