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.
Behavioral Political Economy and Democratic Theory: Fortifying Democracy for the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Petr Špecián
January 29, 2024
Drawing on current debates at the frontiers of economics, psychology, and political philosophy, this book explores the challenges that arise for liberal democracies from a confrontation between modern technologies and the bounds of human rationality. With the ongoing transition of democracy’s ...
Corporations, Accounting, Securities Laws, and the Extinction of Capitalism
1st Edition
By Wm. Dennis Huber
January 29, 2024
Ever since Marx, the future of capitalism has been fiercely debated. Marx and his followers predicted capitalism will end by violent overthrow, while others prophesied its demise will be the result of collapsing under its own weight. Still others argue that capitalism will not only continue to ...
Economics, Social Science and Pluralism: A Real-World Approach
1st Edition
By Victor A. Beker
January 29, 2024
In the work of most classical economists – including Smith and Keynes – theory was often embedded in application. But from the second half of the last century on, mainstream economics styled itself as "pure" economics, where the theory is presented in a very abstract form detached from any ...
Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State: Theoretical Considerations
1st Edition
By Raju J Das
January 29, 2024
Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State examines the capitalist state in the abstract, and as it exists in advanced capitalism and peripheral capitalism, illustrating the ideas with evidence from the North and the South. The volume unpacks the capitalist state’s functions in relation to ...
Moral Discourse in the History of Economic Thought
1st Edition
By Laurent Dobuzinskis
January 29, 2024
Providing an account of the development of economic thought, this book explores the extent to which economic ideas are rooted in moral values. Adopting an approach rooted in ‘pragmatism’, the work explores key questions which have been considered by economists since the classical political ...
Economics, Science and Capitalism
1st Edition
By Richard Westra
September 25, 2023
Various strains of heterodox economics have sought, and largely failed, to dismount orthodoxy from its dominant position. This book critiques the criticizers, explaining why heterodox economics challenges have faltered, and then presents a coherent alternative paradigm of its own. This ...
Production, Value and Income Distribution: A Classical-Keynesian Approach
1st Edition
By Enrico Bellino
September 25, 2023
This book investigates the relationship between wages, profits, values and labour employment from a classical-Keynesian perspective. The starting point of this approach is classical political economy (in particular, Smith, Ricardo and Marx), suitably reformulated in modern terms by Sraffa and then ...
The Failure of Markets: Energy, Housing and Health
1st Edition
By Craig Allan Medlen
September 25, 2023
The core thesis of this book is that the major economic issues of renewable energy, housing, health and income disparities could best be addressed through direct government "in kind" production and redistributive measures. It is argued that this governmental "in kind" production of essential needs...
Capital and Capitalism: Old Myths, New Futures
1st Edition
By Rogene A. Buchholz
May 31, 2023
Capitalist societies need to undergo major change to provide for the material needs of all the people who work within the system, not just the 1 percent. They have become dysfunctional and need a different kind of orientation to continue in existence. Instead of creating wealth, which is what they ...
Capitalism, Development and Empowerment of Labour: A Heterodox Political Economy
1st Edition
By Hartmut Elsenhans
May 31, 2023
The dominant neoliberal approach presents politics and political economy as nuisances which disturb the smooth operation of self-regulating markets. But political economy is not merely an academic issue – it is a class issue, and this book forcefully argues that political economy should return to a...
Economic Change and Wellbeing: The True Cost of Creative Destruction and Globalization
1st Edition
By Fabio D'Orlando, Francesco Ferrante, Albertina Oliverio
May 31, 2023
Technological progress and globalization have generated indisputable benefits, but also relevant costs, such as growing economic inequality, economic fluctuations, and financial instability. Mainstream economics has usually considered these costs as temporary, evenly distributed, and more than ...
Economic Ideas, Policy and National Culture: A Comparison of Three Market Economies
1st Edition
Edited
By Eelke de Jong
May 31, 2023
All human beings develop a certain view on the world. Inhabitants of the same country are likely to develop similar worldviews. The common part of these views constitutes the country’s national culture. Consequently, academic economists, policymakers, and the population at large are consistently ...