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 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...
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 ...