British Business Banking
Michael Lloyd
Why are British banks so risk averse when it comes to providing long-term loan finance to businesses? In Europe the dominance of bank lending in the financing of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) [...]Read More
Economic Anthropology
James G. Carrier
Conventional economic thought sees the economy as the sum of market transactions carried out by rational individuals deciding how to allocate their resources among the various things on offer that would [...]Read More
The Economics of Fishing
Rögnvaldur Hannesson
The fishing industry’s critical dependence on the natural environment makes it very different from other economic sectors. How it can optimally exploit a common resource while ensuring its sustainability [...]Read More
Financial Inclusion
Samuel Kirwan
Without access to mainstream financial services, people pay more for goods and services and have less choice. The impacts of exclusion are not just financial but also affect education, employment, health, [...]Read More
A Modern Migration Theory
Peo Hansen
Current migration policy is based on a seemingly neutral accounting exercise, in which migrants contribute less in tax than they receive in welfare assistance. A “fact” that justifies increasingly restrictive [...]Read More
The Price of Football SECOND EDITION
Kieran Maguire
The first edition of The Price of Football quickly established itself as the go-to guide to understanding football club finance for the serious fan. Kieran Maguire, one of the UK’s top football [...]Read More
No More Mr Nice Europe
Read Hans Kribbe's article on Europe and the Strongmen in Politico Europe.
Financial Times best books of 2020
Edward Luce, the FT's US national editor, chooses Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth's Angrynomics as his book of the year.
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Download a copy of our 2021 Catalogue
Our 2021 catalogue showcases new titles for the coming year and key backlist.
Our 2020 books now available from JSTOR
We are pleased to announce that our 2020 titles are now available through the JSTOR platform, the digital library for scholars, researchers and students.
2021 reading? Austerity
Boris Johnson has said that the UK government "has absolutely no intention of returning to the A word" but with the Covid-19 crisis set to take government debt levels to new heights, is a return to austerity measures inevitable?
