Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics
About the Book Series
Over the past two decades, the intellectual agendas of heterodox economists have taken a decidedly pluralist turn. Leading thinkers have begun to move beyond the established paradigms of Austrian, feminist, Institutional-evolutionary, Marxian, Post Keynesian, radical, social, and Sraffian economics—opening up new lines of analysis, criticism, and dialogue among dissenting schools of thought. This cross-fertilization of ideas is creating a new generation of scholarship in which novel combinations of heterodox ideas are being brought to bear on important contemporary and historical problems.
Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics aims to promote this new scholarship by publishing innovative books in heterodox economic theory, policy, philosophy, intellectual history, institutional history, and pedagogy. Syntheses or critical engagement of two or more heterodox traditions are especially encouraged.
The Handbook of Pluralist Economics Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Jack Reardon
August 12, 2014
This book provides a blueprint for those interested in teaching from a pluralist perspective, regardless of ideology. It provides educators, policy makers and students with helpful suggestions for implementing pluralism into pedagogy, by offering detailed suggestions and guidelines for ...
Informal Work in Developed Nations
1st Edition
Edited
By Enrico Marcelli, Colin C. Williams, Pascale Joassart
June 19, 2014
Almost everyone residing in a developed nation knows someone who has engaged in paid work that is licit but not reported to the government (e.g., babysitting, gardening, construction, financial consulting). But while most acknowledge that such work is helpful to the individuals involved, and that ...
The Coming of Age of Information Technologies and the Path of Transformational Growth: A long run perspective on the late 2000s recession
1st Edition
By Davide Gualerzi
June 19, 2014
In this book, Davide Gualerzi employs the concept of transformational growth to explore the investment-driven cycle of expansion of the 1990s in the US economy, and of the of role played by the ICT sector. The book articulates a view of demand-led growth in which the focus is on effective demand, ...
The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution: A Critical History
1st Edition
By John Pullen
June 19, 2014
The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution (MPTD) claims that in a free-market economy the demand for a factor of production will depend upon its marginal product – where "marginal product" is defined as the change in total product that is caused by, or that follows, the addition or ...
Alternative Theories of Competition: Challenges to the Orthodoxy
1st Edition
Edited
By Jamee K. Moudud, Cyrus Bina, Patrick L. Mason
May 30, 2014
The history of policymaking has been dominated by two rival assumptions about markets. Those who have advocated Keynesian-type policies have generally based their arguments on the claim that markets are imperfectly competitive. On the other hand laissez faire advocates have argued the opposite by ...
Cultural Economics and Theory: The evolutionary economics of David Hamilton
1st Edition
Edited
By David Hamilton, Glen Atkinson, William M. Dugger, William T. Waller Jr.
May 30, 2014
David Hamilton is a leader in the American institutionalist school of heterodox economics that emerged after WWII. This volume includes 25 articles written by Hamilton over a period of nearly half a century. In these articles he examines the philosophical foundations and practical problems of ...
In Defense of Post-Keynesian and Heterodox Economics: Responses to their Critics
1st Edition
Edited
By Frederic S. Lee, Marc Lavoie
May 30, 2014
Post-Keynesian and heterodox economics challenge the mainstream economics theories that dominate the teaching at universities and government economic policies. And it was these latter theories that helped to cause the great depression the United States and the rest of the world is in. However, most...
The Foundations of Institutional Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastian Berger, K. William Kapp, Rolf Steppacher
May 30, 2014
This is a ground-breaking book about the foundations of institutional economics. K. William Kapp presents the economic role of institutions for economic development, capital formation and technological dynamics in an easily accessible and comprehensive manner. As a front-rank 20th century ...
The Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Economics: The principle of circular and cumulative causation
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastian Berger
May 30, 2014
This thought-provoking volume presents essays on the foundations of non-equilibrium economics, i.e. the principle of circular cumulative causation (CCC). This work presents empirical research on how the interplay of technology’s increasing returns to scale, institutions, resources, and economic ...
The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social Learning in a post-disaster environment
1st Edition
By Emily Chamlee-Wright
November 08, 2013
In August 2005 the nation watched as Hurricane Katrina pummelled the Gulf Coast. Residents did not just suffer the personal costs of a home that had been severely damaged or destroyed; frequently they also lost their entire neighbourhood and the social systems that under normal circumstances made ...
Radical Economics and Labour: Essays inspired by the IWW Centennial
1st Edition
Edited
By Frederic Lee, Jon Bekken
September 03, 2013
To celebrate the centenary of the most radical union in North America - The Industrial Workers of the World - this collection examines radical economics and the labor movement in the 20th Century. The union advocates direct action to raise wages and increase job control, and it envisions the ...
A History of Heterodox Economics: Challenging the mainstream in the twentieth century
1st Edition
By Frederic S. Lee
September 14, 2011
Economics is a contested academic discipline between neoclassical economics and a collection of alternative approaches, such as Marxism-radical economics, Institutional economics, Post Keynesian economics, and others, that can collectively be called heterodox economics. Because of the dominance of ...