Routledge

3 days ago | routledge.com | Lili Yan Ing |Dani Rodrik

As anti-globalization reshapes the world, the divide between East and West deepens, creating new challenges for economic policy and global governance. This book provides a nuanced and balanced analysis of economic transformation over the past century, exploring critical themes such as structural change, resource mobilization, and the future of global growth.

3 weeks ago | routledge.com | Nigel Dudley |Marilyn Waite |Meegan Jones |Myra J. Hird

This World Environment Day, we’re highlighting groundbreaking research and expert perspectives that address some of the planet’s most pressing environmental challenges. From biodiversity and climate resilience to food systems and sustainability policy, the titles featured in this collection reflect the urgent need for informed, innovative action. Explore books from leading voices in environmental science, policy, and advocacy.

1 month ago | routledge.com | Alex Hughes |Shuru Zhong |Mike Crang |Guojun Zeng

This book investigates the current and potential roles of food consumption to address sustainability challenges in China. Focusing on the megacity of Guangzhou, it looks at sustainability and food from the perspectives of government, commercial, and third sector actors, and through the lived experiences of consumers. It charts the rapidly transforming landscapes of retail across urban China and the ways they are shaping and are shaped by everyday food consumption practices.

1 month ago | routledge.com | Zoltan Simon

This book situates historical scholarship within a plurihistoricity of contemporary historical culture, exploring conflicting conceptions of historical change in technological utopias of human enhancement, in prospects of human extinction, in societal responses to the Anthropocene, and in the imperative of bringing colonial patterns of historical injustice to justice. Contemporary societies increasingly reclaim history from the academic pursuit of historiography.

1 month ago | routledge.com | Shanker Singham

Shanker Singham is the top conservative economist of his generation. In his latest book, he explains how market distortions affect trade, domestic regulation and economic growth globally. This new work represents Singham’s most compelling effort to illustrate the scope and depth of regulatory overreach with new metrics. I urge policy makers to use these provocative new insights to drive game-changing impact in their countries’ economies, poverty alleviation, and human flourishing worldwide.