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.
Reconfiguring the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor: Geo-Economic Pipe Dreams Versus Geopolitical Realities
1st Edition
By Jeremy Garlick
May 31, 2023
There has been a great deal of speculation and prognostication about the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The project’s name suggests it is intended to be an ‘economic corridor’ connecting Pakistan overland with China’s Xinjiang province. This book examines whether CPEC’s primary purpose is...
The International Political Economy of the Renminbi: Currency Internationalization and Reactive Currency Statecraft
1st Edition
By Hyoung-kyu Chey
May 31, 2023
Although the internationalization of the Chinese renminbi is an important international political event, most of the studies of it place their analytical focuses largely just on China itself, the issuer of the currency. In contrast, this book addresses the question of how foreign states have ...
The Political Economy of Transnational Governance: China and Southeast Asia in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Hong Liu
May 31, 2023
The past two decades have witnessed far-reaching socioeconomic and political changes in Asia, such as the growing intraregional flows of capital, goods, people, and knowledge, the rise of China as the world’s second largest economy, and its increasing influence in Southeast Asia, intensified ...
A History of International Monetary Diplomacy, 1867 to the Present: The Rise of the Guardian State and Economic Sovereignty in a Globalizing World
1st Edition
By Giulio M. Gallarotti
January 09, 2023
This book is about how the rise of democracy has transformed economics over the past 150 years. As voting was expanded to the masses in the late 19th century, political leaders faced emergent pressures to deliver prosperity to their newly enfranchised populations. This led to the rise of the ...
Capital Theory and Political Economy: Prices, Income Distribution and Stability
1st Edition
By Lefteris Tsoulfidis
January 09, 2023
In recent years, there have been a number of new developments in what came to be known as the "Capital Theory Debates". The debates took place mainly during the 1960s as a result of Piero Sraffa's critique of the neoclassical theory according to which the prices of factors of production directly ...
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 ...