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.
Intangible Flow Theory in Economics: Human Participation in Economic and Societal Production
1st Edition
By Tiago Cardao-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 ...
The Informal Economy: Measures, Causes, and Consequences
1st Edition
By Ceyhun Elgin
May 06, 2022
The Informal Economy: Measures, Causes, and Consequences provides a comprehensive account of the economics of informality through the lenses of various economic perspectives. Although informal economic activity is widespread all around the world, many issues around its nature and consequences ...
The Political Economy of Populism: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Petar Stankov
May 06, 2022
The Political Economy of Populism explores the interplay between identity, the economy and inequality to explain the dynamics of populist votes since the beginning of the 20th century. The book discusses the political and economic implications of populist governance using data on populist ...
Markets, Community and Just Infrastructures
1st Edition
By Nancy Neiman
April 29, 2022
A series of market-related crises over the past two decades – financial, environmental, health, education, poverty – reinvigorated the debate about markets and social justice. Since then, counter-hegemonic movements all over the globe are attempting to redefine markets and the meaning of economic ...
Understanding Financial Crises
1st Edition
By Ensar Yılmaz
April 29, 2022
Incorporating a broad range of economic approaches, Understanding Financial Crises explores the merits of various arguments and theories which have been used to explain the causes of financial crises. The book explores eight of these different explanations: underconsumption, debt accumulation, ...
Global Imbalances and Financial Capitalism: Stock-Flow-Consistent Modelling
1st Edition
By Jacques Mazier
December 13, 2021
The past few decades have witnessed the emergence of economic imbalances at the world level and within the euro zone. The failure of mainstream economics to accurately predict financial crises, or model the effects of finance-led growth, highlights the need for alternative frameworks. A key text, ...
The End of Individualism and the Economy: Emerging Paradigms of Connection and Community
1st Edition
By Ann E. Davis
September 30, 2021
Individualism has been one of the driving forces in the rise of modern capitalism, and methodological individualism has been dominant in social science for many years. In this paradigm the economy is seen as a machine to routinize production and improve efficiency, and the discipline of ...
Macroeconomic Measurement Versus Macroeconomic Theory
1st Edition
By Merijn Knibbe
August 02, 2021
Ideally, scientific theory and scientific measurement should develop in tandem, but in recent years this has not been the case in economics. There used to be a time when leading economists, or their students, established or led statistical offices and took care that the measurements were consistent...