New Political Economy
Ecological Imperialism, Development, and the Capitalist World-System: Cases from Africa and Asia
1st Edition
By Mariko Lin Frame
July 29, 2024
Two major trends are currently challenging the sustainability of human civilization: extreme inequality and the ecological crisis. This book argues that these are intrinsically linked by further exploring the complex relationships between global ecological crises, neoliberal globalization, orthodox...
From Economics to Political Economy: The problems, promises and solutions of pluralist economics
1st Edition
By Tim B. Thornton
April 27, 2018
The discipline of economics has been increasingly criticized for its inability to illuminate the workings of the real world and to provide reliable policy guidance for the major economic and social challenges of our time. A central problem in contemporary economics, and a problem from which many ...
Late Neoclassical Economics: The restoration of theoretical humanism in contemporary economic theory
1st Edition
By Yahya M. Madra
April 27, 2018
Several contemporary economic theories revolve around different concepts: market failures, institutions, transaction costs, information asymmetries, motivational diversity, cognitive limitations, strategic behaviors and evolutionary stability. In recent years, many economists have argued that the ...
Political Economy from Below: Economic Thought in Communitarian Anarchism, 1840-1914
1st Edition
By Rob Knowles
January 13, 2017
Communitarian anarchism is a generic form of socialism that denies the need for a state or any other authority over the individual from above, and which requires absolute belief that the individual cannot exist outside of a community of others. This book suggests that the communitarian anarchists ...
Class, Gender, and the American Family Farm in the 20th Century
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Ramey
February 29, 2016
Integrating a focus on gender with Marx’s surplus-based notion of class, this book offers a one-of-a-kind analysis of family farms in the United States. The analysis shows how gender and class struggles developed during important moments in the history of these family farms shaped the trajectory of...
Everyday Economic Practices: The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices
1st Edition
By Savinna Chowdhury
July 20, 2015
This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold. She demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as "capitalism...
Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development: Women's empowerment in the Indian informal economy
1st Edition
By Elizabeth Hill
June 19, 2014
More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic forms of social security. They work as daily labourers in the fields, small producers and industrial outworkers in their own homes and as vendors on the ...
Seeking Sustainability: On the prospect of an ecological liberalism
1st Edition
By G. J Paton
November 08, 2013
The ideas of neoliberalism perpetuate a disembedded and dichotomised view of economy-ecology relations. The renewed interest in climate change and sustainability attests to the lack of progress achieved by the ‘sustainable development’ regime and to the need for more appropriate frameworks for ...
Political Economy from Below: Economic Thought in Communitarian Anarchism, 1840-1914
1st Edition
By Rob Knowles
June 26, 2013
Communitarian anarchism is a generic form of socialism that denies the need for a state or any other authority over the individual from above, and which requires absolute belief that the individual cannot exist outside of a community of others. This book suggests that the communitarian anarchists ...
Unions and Class Transformation: The Case of the Broadway Musicians
1st Edition
By Catherine P. Mulder
February 14, 2013
How can unions move from a defensive strategy to one of class transformation? Mulder demonstrates how the current union strategies of class blindness lead to weak and often unintended results. Unions, she argues, do not use their collective power for class transformation and union commentators/...
Rethinking Municipal Privatization
1st Edition
By Oliver D. Cooke
December 14, 2012
This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations—the privatization of New York City’s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke...
Encoding Capital: The Political Economy of the Human Genome Project
1st Edition
By Rodney Loeppky
October 29, 2012
This book deals with the rapid changes in contemporary molecular biology, particularly genome sciences, and the manner in which they can be understood through the lens of political economy. Specifically, the work investigates the case of the United States-led Genome Project (HGP), in order to show ...