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.
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...
Hayek’s Market Republicanism: The Limits of Liberty
1st Edition
By Sean Irving
June 30, 2021
Friedrich Hayek was the 20th century’s most significant free market theorist. Over the course of his long career he developed an analysis of the danger that state power can pose to individual liberty. In rejecting much of the liberal tradition’s concern for social justice and democratic ...
The Political Economy of Cooperatives and Socialism
1st Edition
By Bruno Jossa
June 30, 2021
This book argues that capitalism cannot be said to be truly democratic and that a system of producer cooperatives, or democratically managed enterprises, is needed to give rise to a new mode of production that is genuinely socialist and fully consistent with the ultimate rationale underlying Marx’s...
The Political Economy of Prosperity: Successful Societies and Productive Cultures
1st Edition
By Peter Murphy
June 30, 2021
Why do some nations and cities attain high levels of economic and social prosperity? What makes them so successful? The kinds of factors habitually cited in answer to these questions explain why nations improve their economic and social performance but not why a small group of nations (or cities) ...
Democratic Economic Planning
1st Edition
By Robin Hahnel
June 01, 2021
Democratic Economic Planning presents a concrete proposal for how to organize, carry out, and integrate comprehensive annual economic planning, investment planning, and long-run development planning so as to maximize popular participation, distribute the burdens and benefits of economic activity ...
Inequality and Governance
1st Edition
By Andreas P. Kyriacou
April 01, 2021
Governance matters for social welfare. Better governed countries are richer, happier and have fewer social and environmental problems. Good governance implies that public sector agents act impartially. It manifests itself in the form of equality before the law, an independent and professional ...
A New Approach to the Economics of Public Goods
1st Edition
By Thomas Laudal
March 31, 2021
Public goods are typically defined only in reference to the good itself but, as this book argues, the public goods can be better understood if contextual variables are incorporated. This book discusses the production and provision of public goods. It asserts that changes related to public goods are...
Alternative Approaches to Economic Theory: Complexity, Post Keynesian and Ecological Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor A. Beker
March 31, 2021
The 2007–2008 financial crisis exposed the shortcomings of mainstream economic theory with economists unprepared to deal with it. In the face of this, a major rethinking of economics seems necessary and in presenting alternative approaches to economic theory, this book contributes to the rebuilding...
Nonviolent Political Economy: Theory and Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Freddy Cante, Wanda Tatiana Torres
March 31, 2021
Nonviolent Political Economy offers a set of theoretical solutions and practical guidelines to build an economy of nonviolence which implies a social state of peacefulness, involving minimal violence and minimal destruction of nature. The book provides renewed reflections on heterodox economics, ...
The Dark Side of Nudges
1st Edition
By Maria Alejandra Madi
March 31, 2021
The concept of "nudging" has hit news headlines in recent years following the implementation of nudge policies in many parts of the world, the establishment of behavioural policy units in some countries, and the award of the Nobel Prize in Economics to the behavioural economist Richard Thaler in ...
A Macroeconomic Analysis of Profit
1st Edition
By Andrea Carrera
December 18, 2020
Based on the observation of economic reality, this book provides for the foundations of a new structure of national payment systems. Specifically, to this end, a rigorous accounting for money transactions, savings, and invested profit is suggested, with a major aim to settle sustainable lending ...