Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance
About the Book Series
The fields of economics and finance are constantly expanding and evolving. This growth presents a significant challenge to readers trying to keep up with the latest important insights. Routledge Focus on Economics and Finance presents short books on the latest big topics, leveraging cutting edge research from scholars globally.
Individually, each title in the series provides coverage of a key topic, whilst collectively, the series forms a comprehensive collection across the whole spectrum of economics and finance.
The Economics of a Breakaway Football League: The Rise and Fall of Colombia's El Dorado in the 1950s
1st Edition
By Jorge Tovar, Andrés Álvarez
July 21, 2026
Throughout the history of football, new leagues have periodically emerged offering high salaries to lure foreign stars — the United States, Japan, and China being prominent examples. Less well known, however, is the case of Colombia. The Colombian professional football league was a brief but ...
Capital Structure and Firm Performance: Global Financing Decisions among Listed Companies
1st Edition
By Ewelina Sokołowska, Milad Zargartalebi
July 20, 2026
In the complex world of finance, understanding the relationship between a company's capital structure and its overall performance is crucial. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of the interdependence between capital structure decisions and business performance, with a specific focus on ...
Regional Economic Integration in East Asia: Institutions, Agreements and the European Experience
1st Edition
By Magdalena Suska
July 20, 2026
This interdisciplinary book analyses the regional economic integration and its institutionalisation that has been pursued in East Asia since the late 1990s and its far-reaching impact for the entire region and beyond. It presents the specificity and evolution of East Asia’s economic integration as ...
Health Insurance in the United States of America: Austrian Perspectives on Interventionism before ObamaCare
1st Edition
By Łukasz Jasiński
June 22, 2026
The U.S. health care system is dominated by private and public (governmental) insurance which makes it difficult for many Americans to imagine access to health care without it. The health care system in the USA is sometimes mistakenly referred to as market-based, partly because of the previous...
Interest Rates and Asset Values: A Case Study in Closed Markets
1st Edition
By Richard Thomas
June 10, 2026
In the complex world of corporate strategy and market dynamics, very few questions are as fundamental as understanding what drives the value of business assets. This book presents the first comprehensive empirical analysis of the causal relationship between interest rates and asset values in closed...
Green Fiscal Policy and Firm Behaviour: Towards Energy Efficiency
1st Edition
By Kinga B. Tchórzewska
June 05, 2026
This book is driven by the urgency of addressing the triple energy challenge— energy sustainability, security, and affordability. It explores a timely and policy-relevant research question, examining how effective green fiscal policies are in fostering the adoption of energy-efficient and ...
Reading John Maynard Keynes: A Short Introduction
1st Edition
By Andrés Solimano
May 22, 2026
This book focuses on understanding the thinking of one of the greatest economists of the 20th century, John Maynard Keynes (JMK), stressing the evolution of his thinking from adherence to the classic Quantity Theory of Money to the development of his own novel theories of unemployment, stagnation ...
The Geoeconomics of Global Value Chains: Navigating Geopolitical Complexity and Industrial Policy Shifts
1st Edition
By Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska
May 08, 2026
The post-Cold War era was widely associated with the Washington Consensus, which promoted economic efficiency, specialization, and trade liberalization as pathways to growth and social welfare. Globalization facilitated the rise of geographically dispersed production networks, known as global value...
Resilient Global Supply Chains and Geopolitical Risk: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
1st Edition
By Aleksandra Kania
May 04, 2026
Global supply chains, long seen as engines of efficiency and economic integration, have been increasingly disrupted by recent crises, including the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, and shifts in trade and industrial policy. These developments have raised costs, increased uncertainty, and reduced...
Dollar Dominance: Fundamentals, Nature, and Present Structure
1st Edition
By Junji Tokunaga
April 30, 2026
This book critically analyzes the US dollar’s dominance as an international currency through an analysis of US dollar gross balance sheets in the shadow banking system at global, systematically important banks. It begins by drawing upon Minsky and Kindleberger’s financial fragility hypothesis, ...
Proactivity in Economics: Between Resourcefulness and Entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski
March 09, 2026
Between plain resourcefulness and full-blooded entrepreneurship lies a middle ground of proactivity which, as this book argues, is a concept that allows economists to make better sense of activity where an individual takes greater agency over their personal outcomes through the existing employment ...
Geopolitics, China and the Global Supply Chain: Issues and Implications
1st Edition
By Sarah Chan
February 07, 2026
In an era of increasing geopolitical turmoil, this book looks at the impact of geopolitics on global supply chains and examines the role of China in East Asia’s regional economic integration. It evaluates the impact of geoeconomic fragmentation along different dimensions such as trade, FDI and ...