Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
About the Book Series
In recent years, there has been widespread criticism of mainstream economics. This has taken many forms, from methodological critiques of its excessive formalism, to concern about its failure to connect with many of the most pressing social issues. This series provides a forum for research which is developing alternative forms of economic analysis. Reclaiming the traditional 'political economy' title, it refrains from emphasising any single school of thought, but instead attempts to foster greater diversity within economics.
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: The Impact on Sub-regional Southeast Asia
1st Edition
Edited
By Christian Ploberger, Soavapa Ngampamuan, Tao Song
January 09, 2023
This book evaluates China’s relations with sub-regional Southeast Asia through its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation framework. The book looks at domestic drivers and regional receptivity of China’s Belt and Road Initiative and also delves into the challenges of ...
Financialisation in the Automotive Industry: Capital and Labour in Contemporary Society
1st Edition
By Marcelo José do Carmo, Mário Sacomano Neto, Julio Cesar Donadone
January 09, 2023
Where presidents or members of affluent families were previously seen, it is increasingly the case that car manufacturers are owned by banks and investment funds which have taken control of the entire economic life of these firms. This has significant impact on the terms of employment and layoffs, ...
Inflation, Unemployment and Capital Malformations
1st Edition
By Bernard Schmitt
January 09, 2023
The volume deals with the main problems faced by capitalist economies, inflation and unemployment, in a new and original way, and provides the theoretical foundations for quantum macroeconomic analysis. Its aim is to allow English-speaking economists and interested readers to have a direct access ...
Markets in their Place: Context, Culture, Finance
1st Edition
Edited
By Russell Prince, Matthew Henry, Carolyn Morris, Aisling Gallagher, Stephen FitzHerbert
January 09, 2023
Markets are usually discussed in abstract terms, as an economic organizing principle, a generalized alternative to government planning, or even as powerful actors in their own right, able to shape local and national economic destinies. But markets are not abstract. Even as the idea of the market ...
Politics and the Theory of Spontaneous Order
1st Edition
By Piotr Szafruga
January 09, 2023
The theory of spontaneous order conceptualises and explains a number of institutional and social phenomena that are not an intended effect of either individual decisions or a collective consensus but an unplanned outcome of interactions between people pursuing their own aims. Drawing on these ...
Power and Influence of Economists: Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Jens Maesse, Stephan Pühringer, Thierry Rossier, Pierre Benz
January 09, 2023
Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors including central and private banks, multinational corporations, the state and the media, as well as serving as policy consultants on everything from health to the environment and security. Power and Influence of Economists explores the ...
Preventing the Next Financial Crisis
1st Edition
By Victor A. Beker
January 09, 2023
The collapse of Lehman Brothers, the oldest and fourth-largest US investment bank, in September 2008 precipitated the global financial crisis. This deepened the contraction in economic activity that had already started in December 2007 and has become known as the Great Recession. Following a ...
Value and Unequal Exchange in International Trade: The Geography of Global Capitalist Exploitation
1st Edition
By Andrea Ricci
January 09, 2023
Contrary to the claims made by neoliberal governments and mainstream academics, this book argues that the huge increase in trade in recent decades has not made the world a fairer place: instead, the age of globalization has become a time of mass migration caused by increasing global inequality. ...
Money and Capital: A Critique of Monetary Thought, the Dollar and Post-Capitalism
1st Edition
By Laurent Baronian
December 30, 2022
This book renews the Marxian theory of the general equivalent by highlighting the contradiction between the social functions of money (unit of account, means of circulation) and its private functions (store of value, accumulation). It draws a clear distinction between the monetary base and the ...
Temporary Economic Crises
1st Edition
By Shahzavar Karimzadi
December 30, 2022
In traditional theory of economic crisis, and in all its manifestations, there is no fundamental difference between economic disorder and economic crisis: the two types of economic turmoil are both considered temporary states. This book is a methodical study of deep-seated causes of economic ...
Permanent Economic Disorder
1st Edition
By Shahzavar Karimzadi
December 12, 2022
All schools of thought in economics, explicitly or otherwise, have referred to economic disorder as a self-evident fact. They have also unanimously considered it to be a temporary state. By contrast, this book contends that economic disorder is an interminable condition of human existence. From ...
The China-US Trade War and South Asian Economies
1st Edition
Edited
By Rahul Nath Choudhury
September 30, 2022
The USA and China, the world’s largest economic powers, have been engaging in trade war since January 2018. The impact of this trade war is felt not only by US and China but also by other economies who have economic ties with them. This book provides insights into damages caused by this trade war....