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.
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 ...
Cognitive Capitalism, Welfare and Labour: The Commonfare Hypothesis
1st Edition
By Andrea Fumagalli, Alfonso Giuliani, Stefano Lucarelli, Carlo Vercellone
December 18, 2020
This book deals with the transformations of both accumulation process and labour in the transition from a Fordist to a cognitive capitalism paradigm, with specific regard to Western economies. It outlines the advent, after industrial capitalism, of a new phase of the capitalist system in which the ...
Discourse Analysis and Austerity: Critical Studies from Economics and Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Kate Power, Tanweer Ali, Eva Lebdušková
December 18, 2020
In the immediate aftermath of the global financial crisis of 2008, governments around the developed world coordinated policy moves to stimulate economic activity and avert a depression. In subsequent years, however, cuts to public expenditure, or austerity, have become the dominant narrative in ...
Economic Woman: Gendering Inequality in the Age of Capital
1st Edition
By Frances Raday
December 18, 2020
The author introduces the concept of economic woman and makes her visible in duality with and opposition to the exclusive model of economic man. Economic man has epitomized neo-liberal capitalism, which embraces competition and maximization of profit, resulting in a steep increase in economic ...
Ethics and Economic Theory
1st Edition
By Khalid Mir
December 18, 2020
This book takes a multi-disciplinary critique of economics’ first principles: the fundamental and inter-related structuring assumptions that underlie the neo-classical paradigm. These assumptions, that economic agents are rational, self-interested individuals, continue to influence the teaching of ...
Political Economy for Human Rights
1st Edition
By Manuel Couret Branco
December 18, 2020
Over time there has been a miscommunication between mainstream economics and human rights that has paved the way to a justificatory ideology that validates the submission of human rights to the logic of market capitalism. This book shows how the discourse of mainstream economics is intrinsically ...
Political Pluralism, Disagreement and Justice: The Case for Polycentric Democracy
1st Edition
By Julian F. Müller
December 18, 2020
This book poses the question: How can we organize society in such a way that our disagreement about facts and norms works to the benefit of everyone? In response, it makes the argument for polycentric democracy, a political arrangement consisting of various political units that enjoy different ...
The Dark Places of Business Enterprise: Reinstating Social Costs in Institutional Economics
1st Edition
By Pietro Frigato, Francisco J. Santos-Arteaga
December 18, 2020
This book considers Thorstein Veblen’s central preoccupation with the dark places of business enterprise, an integral part of the old institutional economics. Combining the contributions made by Karl William Kapp and Philip Mirowski, it proposes the systematization of an adjourned institutional ...