Western Enterprise in Far Eastern Economic Development charts the activities of Western firms in China and Japan from the middle of the 19th century, when those countries were opened to foreign trade.

In this collection, leading voices against the sanctions document the human, environmental and social toll of the US and UK-led war against Iraq. This updated edition examines George Bush's and Tony Blair's escalation of the conflict as part of their global war on terrorism, even though no evidence exists that ties Iraq to the tragic events of September 11.

Investigating the process of agrarian change, this text analyses costs and productivity under the main systems of primitive agriculture.

This title deals with the theory of economic growth.

Discussing the process of economic development in Japan, this text covers the period from when Japan first entered upon her career of Westernization to the beginning of the war with China in 1937. The main emphasis is on industrial and financial development and organization.

The essays in this work focus on the controversies concerning Britain's economic performance between the mid-19th century and the First World War.

This study of economic reforms throughout Eastern Europe covers the history of attempts at decentralization. The book: describes the centralized model and compares its requirements with the realities of socialist countries; discusses the economic policies of the post-Stalinist period; and examines the origin of the reforms which began in 1956, culminating in the Soviet economic reform of 1965 and the rehabilitation of profit. The countries it covers include the former USSR, the former East Germany and Hungary.

For many years a neglected figure, Nikolai Bukharin has been the subject of renewed interest in the West. Now regarded as a leading Marxist theorist, Bukharin's work has wide appeal to those interested in Soviet history and Marxist economics.

Written during World War II against the background of the economic and political futility of the 1930s, this book deals with the changing role of government, and particularly fiscal policy as an instrument for regulating the national income and its distribution.

Building from the micro-foundations of economic behaviour to a full survey of macroeconomics, this book examines growth theory and equilibrium and disequilibrium approaches to provide a comprehensive survey of all the rival theoretical approaches that underlie central policy debates.