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.
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....
Distributive Justice and Taxation
1st Edition
By Jørgen Pedersen
August 01, 2022
Providing a thorough examination of distributive justice, Distributive Justice and Taxation presents and discusses different theories of what constitutes a just society, and how goods should be distributed in such a society. The distribution of goods in society has direct and serious consequences ...
Foundations of Post-Schumpeterian Economics: Innovation, Institutions and Finance
1st Edition
By Beniamino Callegari
August 01, 2022
The neo-Schumpeterian interpretation dominating the field of evolutionary economics puts focus on technological innovation, Darwinian evolution and economic growth, and has proven to be fertile ground for the past forty years. However, as the evolutionary school attempts to engage with a world of ...
Intangible Flow Theory in Economics: Human Participation in Economic and Societal Production
1st Edition
By Tiago Cardão-Pito
August 01, 2022
The dominant economic explanations of the 20th century are not comprehensive enough to describe the complexity of economy and society and their reliance on the biosphere. Intangible Flow Theory in Economics: Human Participation in Economic and Societal Production outlines a new theory that ...
Profit, Accumulation, and Crisis in Capitalism: Long-term Trends in the UK, US, Japan, and China, 1855–2018
1st Edition
By Minqi Li
June 13, 2022
Karl Marx hypothesized that there is a long-term tendency for the profit rate to fall in capitalist economies. Immanuel Wallerstein hypothesized that capitalist development tends to drive up labor cost, material cost, and taxation cost. This book evaluates Marx’s and Wallerstein’s hypotheses by ...
Rent Seeking and Human Capital: How the Hunt for Rents Is Changing Our Economic and Political Landscape
1st Edition
By Kurt von Seekamm Jr.
June 01, 2022
Rent Seeking and Human Capital: How the Hunt for Rents Is Changing Our Economic and Political Landscape explores the debates around rent seeking and contextualizes it within the capitalist economy. It is vital that the field of economics does a better job of analyzing and making policy ...
Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders: The Case of Contemporary Spain
1st Edition
By Pedro M. Rey-Araújo
May 30, 2022
Capitalism, Institutions and Social Orders develops a novel political economy approach by establishing a dialogue between the Social Structures of Accumulation (SSA) theory and Ernesto Laclau’s post-Marxism theory. Using this synthesis, it provides an in-depth analysis of Spain’s recent ...
The Political Economy of State Intervention: Conserving Capital over the West’s Long Depression
1st Edition
By Gavin Poynter
May 30, 2022
Both the exponents and critics of neoliberalism assert the dominance of market forces in western nations. The Political Economy of State Intervention calls this into question. Through a re-examination of state intervention in the USA and Britain over the course of the "long depression" (1970-to ...