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2 BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT NEW TITLES 2 Edward Elgar Publishing I www.e-elgar.com I info@e-elgar.co.uk ECONOMICS & FI NCE - OCT 20 - MARCH 21 NEW TITLES A Research Agenda for Media Economics Edited by Alan B. Albarran, University of North Texas, US ‘ A Research Agenda for Media Economics edited by international scholar and veteran researcher Alan Albarran brings together a top-notch group of well-established and emerging scholars to look at the current state of media economics research. From theoretical traditions in media economics research to the spending patterns of the individual consumer this book presents a whole host of new ideas in advancing the future of the discipline. If there is a one important tie-in to the many authors who contributed to this work, it has to do with idea of audience, from a business, technological and global perspective.’ – Richard A. Gershon, Western Michigan University, US 2019 208 pp Hardback 978 1 78811 905 4 £80.00 / $125.00 2020 Paperback 978 1 80088 134 1 £25.95 $39.95 eBook • Elgaronline Elgar Research Agendas A Source Book on Early Monetary Thought Writings on Money before Adam Smith Edited by Edward W. Fuller, Palo Alto, CA, US ‘Edward Fuller’s convenient anthology of contributions to monetary economics by thirty writers before Adam Smith, from Aristotle to Hume and Condillac, will be greatly appreciated by anyone interested in the origins and development of monetary economics. Many of these important writings were previously difficult of access. Now it is easy, and enjoyable, to peruse in a single book the long and rich heritage of monetary analysis in the two millennia from Aristotle to Adam Smith.’ – Robert W. Dimand, Brock University, Canada 2020 336 pp Hardback 978 1 83910 998 0 £105.00 / $155.00 2020 Paperback 978 1 80037 000 5 £29.95 / $45.00 eBook • Elgaronline After Brexit, What Next? Trade, Regulation and Economic Growth Patrick Minford with David Meenagh, Cardiff University, UK ‘Brexit offers the UK the opportunity to shake off the shackles of its EU past and rejuvenate its economy. In this book, Patrick Minford and David Meenagh set out the reforms needed – deregulation, free trade, and fiscal and monetary reform – to make Brexit a success. More markets, less government. UK policymakers should adopt After Brexit, What Next? as their canonical text.’ – Kevin Dowd, Durham University, UK 2020 192 pp Hardback 978 1 83910 306 3 £70.00 / $105.00 2020 Paperback 978 1 83910 308 7 £19.95 / $29.95 30 Years of Transition in Europe Looking Back and Looking Beyond in CESEE Countries Edited by Robert Holzmann, Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald, and Helene Schuberth , Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Austria This thought-provoking book investigates the political and economic transformation that has taken place over the past three decades in Central, Eastern and Southeaster n Europe (CESEE) since the fall of the Iron Curtain. Through an examination of both the successes and shortcomings of post communist reform and the challenges ahead for the region, it explores the topical issues of economic transition and integration, and highlights lessons to be learned. 2020 256 pp Hardback 978 1 83910 949 2 £90.00 / $135.00 eBook • Elgaronline Published in Association with Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Austria A Modern Guide to Economic Sociology Edited by Milan Zafirovski, University of North Texas, US ‘A comprehensive and stimulating guide, written by some of the best known scholars in the fìeld, that shows how the theoretical and empirical findings of economic sociology correspond and complement those of economics, as a sort of countermelody that enriches our knowledge of the relationships between economy and society.’ – Alberto Martinelli, Università degli studi di Milano, Italy and Former President of the International Social Science Council, France 2020 368 pp Hardback 978 1 78990 130 6 £120.00 / $180.00 Elgar Modern Guides A Modern Guide to the Economics of Happiness Edited by Luigino Bruni, LUMSA University, Rome, Alessandra Smerilli, PFSE-Axilium University and Dalila De Rosa, Ministry of Economics and Finance, Italy Exploring the modern approach to the economics of happiness, which came about with the Easterlin Paradox, this book analyses and assesses the idea that as a country gets richer the happiness of its citizens remains the same. The book moves through three distinct pillars of study in the field: first analysing the historical and philosophical foundations of the debate; then the methodological and measurements issues and their political implications; and finally empirical applications and discussion about what determines a happy life. January 2021 328 pp Hardback 978 1 78897 875 0 £115.00 / $170.00 Elgar Modern Guides