A typical view among China watchers has been that China's finance has lagged behind development in other sectors and is dominated by large stated-owned banks. However, fundamental changes in China's financial system are underway and China's peer-to-peer (P2P) lending is now the largest in the world...
Dr Chaloner considers economic history to be a branch of what the French call the historical sciences. 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...
First published in 1989. In the decade before this book was originally published, employee share ownership and profit sharing had increased markedly as successive governments introduced fiscal legislation promoting their uses. Yet how successful had ‘people’s capitalism’ been? The Glasgow study was ..
Frank Machovec argues that the assumption of perfect information has done untold economic damage. It has has led to state intervention and obscured the extent to which entrepreneurial activity depends on asymetric information...
The question of illusion and reality - the relationship of representation and lived experience to the arts and to broader philosophical considerations - continues to be a central issue in contemporary performance...
Letters from theatre makers, artists and critics, each one a framing device examining Europe's performance forms - the old and new dramaturgies and the shifting relationships of text and performance...
Letters from theatre makers, artists and critics, each one a framing device examining Europe's performance forms - the old and new dramaturgies and the shifting relationships of text and performance...
This book examines the life and work of six doctor-economists: Petty, Locke, Barbon, Mandeville, Quesnay and Juglar. It studies the interaction between their medicalpractice and their economics...
This book studies Sraffa's relations with Gramsci, Keynes and Wittgenstein, as well as providing an authoritative interpretation of his main work Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities...