Product Description: First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: The performance of public services is now more closely scrutinized than ever before. Every teacher, doctor, social worker or probation officer knows that behind them stands a restless army of overseers, equipped with a panoply of league tables, star ratings, user opinion surveys, performance indicators and the like with which to judge them...read more

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Product Description: In this fascinating six volume set, Stuart Corbridge brings together more than one hundred articles dealing with the discipline of development in all its diversity. Key topics include the transformation of peasant economies, argibusiness, rural-urban relations, markets, industrialization, workers, trade, aid and structural adjustment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: International debt is a major concern both for the countries involved and for the economies financing it. Stuart Corbridge brings together eighty-eight major articles to provide the most comprehensive and up to date analysis of this key global issue...read more

Product Description: First published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: For over two hundred years, the domination of some countries by others has been intrinsic to international relations, with national economic and political strength viewed as essential to a nation's survival and global position. "Mastering Space" identifies the essential features of this "state-centredness" and suggests an optimistic alternative more in keeping with the contemporary post-Cold War climate...read more

Product Description: This book places money, power and space at the centre of the issues surrounding the restructuring of the global economy. Seventeen geographers, economists, political scientists and sociologists drawn from all over the world present new work on the production and consumption of money...read more

In "Debt and Development" Stuart Corbridge offers an approach to the study of both debt and development, focusing on the international debt crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, and its economic and geo-political consequences. Moving far beyond the framework of a narrative account, the author demonstrates that interpretations of this crisis - and attempts to manage it - are themselves reflections of wider assumptions about the dynamics of development and the organization of the global economy. Part One sets out to provide the standard narrative of the debt crisis from the OPEC oil rises onwards, ending with the most recent attempts at crisis management. After establishing the facts of the crisis, the author then provides in Part Two a demonstration of how this crisis might be interpreted from three quite different perspectives: a free-market "system-stability" approach; a Keynesian "system-correction" approach; and a Marxian "system-instability" approach. In conclusion, the author considers how these competing perspectives on debt and development might be judged.

Product Description: Corbridge provides a fascinating review of the conflict of interest between metropolitan capitalism and the development of the periphery of the modern world system.