Economics

New and notable

AFR Acquisition
Emerald has acquired the Agricultural Finance Review journal from Cornell University. Professor Calum G. Turvey who holds the W.I. Myers Professor of Agricultural Finance at Cornell University will continue to be the Editor of the journal.

AFR is the only journal dedicated to the publication of issues related to agricultural finance in its entirety. The journal is a well established, internationally respected journal and is currently entering its 69th volume of publication. It will form a valuable addition to Emerald’s growing economics portfolio, alongside newer titles such as the International Journal of Development Issues, and regional titles China Agricultural Economic Review and Indian Growth and Development Review.

AFR is global in scope and provides a medium for the exchange of ideas between developed and developing agricultural economies – the journal is committed to research addressing (1) factors affecting or influencing the financing of agriculture and agribusiness in both developed and developing nations; (2) the broadest aspect of risk assessment and risk management strategies affecting agriculture; and (3) government policies affecting farm profitability, liquidity, and access to credit.

JFEP Launch
Launching in 2009, Journal of Financial Economic Policy aims to satisfy the market's need to disseminate fast thorough response to contemporary financial economic policy issues. JFEP is devoted to the advancement of the understanding of the entire spectrum of financial policy and control issues and their interactions to economic phenomena. These include, but are not limited to: Financial Markets Stability, Corporate and Systemic Liquidity Control, Monetary and Fiscal Policy, Banking Stability and Supervision, Public Debt Policy and Management, Regulation and Law, Sovereign Risk and Management, Institutional Organization, and Voting. For more information and details on how to submit a paper please visit:
http://www.emeraldinsight. com/jfep.htm

Measurement Error: Consequences, Applications and Solutions (Advances in Econometrics, Volume 24)
Editors: Jane Binner, David Edgerton, and Thomas Elger
ISBN: 978-1-84855-902-8
Price: EUR 105.95/GBP 69.95/USD 134.95
Publication date: October 2009

The volume looks in detail at the measurement errors contained in the national accounts and the types of measurement errors that confront statistical agencies. It presents models of their behaviour and illustrates the trade offs that must be made in dealing with such errors. Also, this volume addresses the inability to conduct standard statistical tests, given the measurement errors contained in data from agencies and analyses new tests that can be performed to take into account measurement errors in economic data.

Occupational and Residential Segregation (Research on Economic Inequality, Volume 17)
Editors: Jacques Silber, Yves Flückiger and Sean F. Reardon
ISBN: 9781848557864
Price: EUR 97.95/GBP 64.95/USD 124.95
Publication date: October 2009

The volume is divided into five parts, each one including two chapters. Part I is devoted to "Information Theory and Segregation Measurement", part II to "The Gini Index and the Measurement of Segregation", part III to "Measuring Segregation with Ordered Categories", part IV to "Exploring Changes in Segregation" and part V to "Wage Inequality and Segregation".

Advances in Austrian Economics (Advances in Austrian Economics, Volume 12)
Editor: Giandomenica Becchio
ISBN: 9781848559981
Price: EUR EUR 89.95/GBP 59.95/USD 114.95
Publication date: November 2009

Karl Menger (1902-1985) was the mathematician son of the famous  economist Carl Menger. He was professor of geometry at the University  of Vienna from 1927 to 1938. During that period, which was crucial from an historical and philosophical point of view, he joined the Vienna Circle and founded his Mathematical Colloquium.  The present volume of Advances in Austrian Economics offers the transcription of those unpublished parts of Menger's notes written between 1923-1938. It is hoped that these notes, together with the Editor’s contextual explanations, provide a well-researched subtext to Menger’s biography during this influential perio

Collection highlights

Regional Economics Journals from Emerald
The Emerald Economics portfolio has recently been enhanced. 2008 saw the launch of two exciting titles with a regional focus: the Indian Growth and Development Review (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/igdr.htm) and the Journal of Chinese Economic and Foreign Trade Studies (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/jcefts.htm). Both journals have published initial volumes of a high standard, and are now welcoming submissions for future volumes.

2009 saw the launch of the China Agricultural Economic Review (http://www.emeraldinsight.com/caer.htm), the first issue of which has already received acclaim among relevant scholars. CAER editors are currently accepting papers for future issues.

These titles accompany the International Journal of Development Issues as part of Emerald’s strong regional economics collection.

Emerald Publishes Special Issue and Book on Henry George
The International Journal of Social Economics has recently published a special issue, titled “Henry George as social economist and radical reformer”.

This Special Issue focuses on the ideas of the nineteenth century American social and economic philosopher, Henry George, (1839-1897). George published Progress and Poverty in 1879 and it very quickly became the most widely read book on economics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This fact will astonish many people today. The historical influence of Progress and Poverty has become obscured, indeed almost obliterated, since the Second World War. George was an autodidact, populist reformer, skilled orator and elegant philosopher of economics, who had a global following which reached its pinnacle in the first decade of the twentieth century. This was a popularity that had substantive political and legislative effects in such diverse places as the United States, England, Australia and Africa. George’s ideas, his corpus of publications and its scholarly commentary, long since relegated to the outermost margins of the academic discipline of economics, are once again finding a renascence. And for good reason.

Community updates

• Emerald at EEA-ESEM 09
  Emerald will be present at the European Economic Association and the Econometric Society European meeting (EEA-ESEM) annual meeting in August 23-25th 2010. Emerald representatives will be on hand to meet, greet and answer any queries that you may have.