A Perspective Of Wages And Prices Routledge Revivals

Author : Henry Phelps Brown,Sheila V. Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136310195

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A Perspective of Wages and Prices (Routledge Revivals) by Henry Phelps Brown,Sheila V. Hopkins Pdf

First published in book form in 1981, this collection of essays originally written between 1955 and 1966 contains ground-breaking research and analysis on the study of wages and prices across seven centuries, with particular reference to builder’s wage rates and the price of a bundle of the commodities on which these wages might be spent. These seminal contributions to the economics of labour and economic growth did much to fuel the debate surrounding the problems of inflation, stability and changes in the purchasing power of money upon the book’s initial publication. These concerns are every bit as relevant in today’s post credit-crunch society and this reissue will be welcomed by all students of economic history and labour economics.

Author : Bob Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136921698

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The Economics of Non-Wage Labour Costs (Routledge Revivals) by Bob Hart Pdf

Throughout the OECD, 30% of the average firm’s total labour costs comprises items which are other than direct remuneration. This reissue, first published in 1984, focuses upon these non-wage labour costs, which include; fringe-benefit payments, obligatory social-welfare contributions, holiday entitlements and expenditures on recruitment and training, seeking to make amends for the woeful lack of consideration given to these important factors in previous wage literature. The book focuses on two major areas of enquiry: firstly, the costs for the cyclical behaviour of employment, and secondly, the role of average working hours per employee in the firm’s overall allocation of labour services. The author begins with an empirical survey and costs breakdown, followed by extensive data on Japan, the UK, the USA and West Germany. The ensuing analysis considers the question as to why firms incur the various non-wages, and a comparative static factor demand model is constructed, which accommodates the major cost items.

Author : Henry Phelps Brown
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:802796866

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A Perspective of Wages and Prices by Henry Phelps Brown Pdf

Author : Henry Phelps Brown,Sheila V. Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136310201

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A Perspective of Wages and Prices (Routledge Revivals) by Henry Phelps Brown,Sheila V. Hopkins Pdf

First published in book form in 1981, this collection of essays originally written between 1955 and 1966 contains ground-breaking research and analysis on the study of wages and prices across seven centuries, with particular reference to builder’s wage rates and the price of a bundle of the commodities on which these wages might be spent. These seminal contributions to the economics of labour and economic growth did much to fuel the debate surrounding the problems of inflation, stability and changes in the purchasing power of money upon the book’s initial publication. These concerns are every bit as relevant in today’s post credit-crunch society and this reissue will be welcomed by all students of economic history and labour economics.

Author : J. A. Hobson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415590027

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Gold Prices and Wages (Routledge Revivals) by J. A. Hobson Pdf

First published in 1913, this Routledge Revivals title reissues J. A. Hobson¿s seminal analysis of the causal link between the rise in gold prices and the increase in wages and consumer buying power in the early years of the Twentieth Century. Contrary to the assertions of some notable contemporary economists and businessmen, Hobson contended that the relationship between gold prices and wages (and the resulting social unrest across much of Europe) was in fact much more complex than it initially appeared and that there were significantly more important factors in the rise of contemporary wealth, such as the rapid enlargement of state enterprise and joint stock companies; a wide extension of banking and general financial apparatus; and the opening of profitable fields of investment for the development of underdeveloped countries, which helped raise the rate of interest and profits.

Author : Bob Hart,Robert A. Hart
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Employee fringe benefits
ISBN : 0415589428

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The Economics of Non-wage Labour Costs by Bob Hart,Robert A. Hart Pdf

Throughout the OECD, 30% of the average firmâe(tm)s total labour costs comprises items which are other than direct remuneration. This reissue, first published in 1984, focuses upon these non-wage labour costs, which include; fringe-benefit payments, obligatory social-welfare contributions, holiday entitlements and expenditures on recruitment and training, seeking to make amends for the woeful lack of consideration given to these important factors in previous wage literature. The book focuses on two major areas of enquiry: firstly, the costs for the cyclical behaviour of employment, and secondly, the role of average working hours per employee in the firmâe(tm)s overall allocation of labour services. The author begins with an empirical survey and costs breakdown, followed by extensive data on Japan, the UK, the USA and West Germany. The ensuing analysis considers the question as to why firms incur the various non-wages, and a comparative static factor demand model is constructed, which accommodates the major cost items.

Author : Bob Hart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136921704

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The Economics of Non-Wage Labour Costs (Routledge Revivals) by Bob Hart Pdf

Throughout the OECD, 30% of the average firm’s total labour costs comprises items which are other than direct remuneration. This reissue, first published in 1984, focuses upon these non-wage labour costs, which include; fringe-benefit payments, obligatory social-welfare contributions, holiday entitlements and expenditures on recruitment and training, seeking to make amends for the woeful lack of consideration given to these important factors in previous wage literature. The book focuses on two major areas of enquiry: firstly, the costs for the cyclical behaviour of employment, and secondly, the role of average working hours per employee in the firm’s overall allocation of labour services. The author begins with an empirical survey and costs breakdown, followed by extensive data on Japan, the UK, the USA and West Germany. The ensuing analysis considers the question as to why firms incur the various non-wages, and a comparative static factor demand model is constructed, which accommodates the major cost items.

Author : J. E. Meade
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136708626

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Wage-Fixing (Routledge Revivals) by J. E. Meade Pdf

This reissue, first published in 1982, is the first of two volumes on the causes and cure of Stagflation - the two-headed monster that combines mass unemployment with rapid inflation, which affected contemporary economies across the industrially developped world in the 1970s. Professor Meade outlines the nature of the problem, contrasting the Great Slump of the 1930s with the Great Stagflation of the 1970s and comparing the Orthodox Keynesian and Monetarist approaches with the New Keynesian strategy. Various proposals for the reform of wage-fixing institutions are discussed, including the limitation of trade-union bargaining powers, an official incomes policy, labour management and ownership in business, and tax or subsidy measures to discourage inflationary rises in wages and prices. The book will be essential reading for all concerned with both the theory and policy of contemporary macroeconomics, industrial relations, labour economics and labour law. It has been written so that the general argument in the main text is accessible to the general reader as well as of interest to the professional economist.

Author : Charles Levinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134099269

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Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals) by Charles Levinson Pdf

Inflation is the economic plague of the modern world, completely undermining conventional theory and policies for its containment, and setting governments, management and labour on a dangerous collision course. Its alarming spread is only paralleled by the expansion of multinational corporations, some of them more economically powerful than nation states. This book, first published in 1971, provided a totally new perspective on these phenomena, linking them in a common theory based on a thorough analysis of the modern role of capital financing in the global economy. It demonstrates the impact of technology on self-financing growth and explains why inflation can never ben stemmed by attacks on wage costs when the source lies in the need of managements to maximise cash flows. Alternative economic policies are discussed, including proposals for creating assets for workers in the self-financing investment. Charles Levinson draws together the strands of his subject in a way which is comprehensive and rigorous, yet easily accessible to the more general reader. The conclusions reached in Capital Inflation and the Multinationals are still of great interest and relevance to professional economists and students, political practitioners and commentators.

Author : Linda Clarke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136599538

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Building Capitalism (Routledge Revivals) by Linda Clarke Pdf

First published in 1992, this Routledge Revival sees the reissue of a truly original exploration of the nature of urbanization and capitalism. Linda Clarke’s vital work argues that: Urbanization is a product of the social human labour engaged in building as well as a concentration of the labour force. The quality of the labour process determines the development of production. Changes to the built environment reflect changes in the production process and, in particular, the development of wage labour. To support these arguments, the author identifies a qualitatively new historical stage of capitalist building production involving a significant expansion of wage labour, and hence capital, and the transition from artisan to industrial production. Linda Clarke draws from a wide range of original material relating to the development of London from the mid-eighteenth to the early nineteenth century to provide a complete description of the development process: materials extraction, roadbuilding, housebuilding, paving, cleansing, etc; profiles of builders and contractors involved, and a picture of the new working class communities, as in Somers Town – their living conditions, population, working environment, and politics.

Author : Grahame Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317570646

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Economic Calculations and Policy Formation (Routledge Revivals) by Grahame Thompson Pdf

These essays develop a Marxist response to and approach to aspects of the recent economic past in the United Kingdom. They reflect issues and controversies that have arisen within economic policy debate and the economic theory associated with the debate, highlighting the problematic nature of economic policy in the period since the mid-1970s. The book, first published in 1986, develops a line of argument organized around issues of ‘calculation’, thus challenging the orthodox Marxist framework and presenting a neo-Marxist analysis.

Author : Stewart Clegg,Paul Boreham,Geoff Dow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134717101

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Class, Politics and the Economy (Routledge Revivals) by Stewart Clegg,Paul Boreham,Geoff Dow Pdf

This study, first published in 1986, provides a systematic account of the processes and structure of class formation in the major advanced capitalist societies. The focus is on the organizational mechanisms of class cohesion and division, theoretically deriving from a neo-Marxian perspective. Chapters consider the organization and structure of the ‘corporate ruling class’, the middle class and the working class, and are brought together in an overarching analysis of the organization of class in relation to the state and the economy. This title will be of particular interest to students researching the impact of recession on societal structure and the processes of political class struggle, as well as those with a more general interest in the socio-economic theories of Marx, Engels and Weber.

Author : Baldev Raj,Aman Ullah
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317850663

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Econometrics (Routledge Revivals) by Baldev Raj,Aman Ullah Pdf

Originally published in 1981, this book considers one particular area of econometrics- the linear model- where significant recent advances have been made. It considers both single and multiequation models with varying co-efficients, explains the various theories and techniques connected with these and goes on to describe the various applications of the models. Whilst the detailed explanation of the models will interest primarily econometrics specialists, the implications of the advances outlined and the applications of the models will intrest a wide range of economists.

Author : Charles Levinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134460762

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International Trade Unionism (Routledge Revivals) by Charles Levinson Pdf

As Secretary General of the ICF and previously Assistant General Secretary of the IMF, Charles Levinson played an important part in developing the countervailing labour response to the multinational corporations. His earlier work, Capital, Inflation and the Multinationals (Routledge Revivals, 2013) displayed the force of his insight into the dynamics of modern economics and technology. First published in 1972, this book considers the opportunities which allow unions to command an increasing share in decisions that shape the worker’s destiny. Chapters include discussions on the multinational corporations, industrial democracy and the ideas behind collective bargaining.

Author : Beth Bilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317228219

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Wage Restraint and the Control of Inflation by Beth Bilson Pdf

Since 1945 preventing runaway wage inflation has been regarded as a key policy in managing an economy in a successful way. The exact nature of pay control has varied from country to country and from time to time. This book, originally published in 1987, examines pay control policies in major Western economies. It surveys developments from 1945 and explores the aims of pay policies and discusses the problems of implementation, comparing the different kinds of policies. By comparing the performance of these different approaches the book assesses the merits and pitfalls of the different approaches.