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.
Institutions and Development After the Financial Crisis
1st Edition
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By Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico
November 07, 2016
The financial crash of 2007-2008 and the subsequent global economic crisis have raised questions about the viability of capitalism and the desirability of alternative types of economic system. In this context, Keynesian and Marxist ideas in particular have become more popular. These two approaches,...
Economic Complexity and Equilibrium Illusion: Essays on market instability and macro vitality
1st Edition
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By Ping Chen
September 29, 2016
The Principle of Large Numbers indicates that macro fluctuations have weak microfoundations; persistent business cycles and interrupted technologies can be better characterized by macro vitality and meso foundations. Economic growth is limited by market extent and ecological constraints. The ...
Against Utility-Based Economics: On a Life-Based Approach
1st Edition
By Anastasios Korkotsides
June 17, 2016
Utility-based theory and the fallback choice-theoretic framework are shown to be biased, irremediably flawed and misleading. A radically different theory of value and of consumer behaviour is proposed based on existential interpretations of scarcity, value and self-interest. For self-conscious ...
Architectures of Economic Subjectivity: The Philosophical Foundations of the Subject in the History of Economic Thought
1st Edition
By Sonya Scott
June 17, 2016
The history of European economic thought has long been written by those seeking to prove or disprove the truth-value of the theories they describe. This work takes a different approach. It explores the philosophical groundwork of the theoretical structure within which economic subjects are ...
The Political Economy and Media Coverage of the European Economic Crisis: The case of Ireland
1st Edition
By Julien Mercille
June 17, 2016
The European economic crisis has been ongoing since 2008 and while austerity has spread over the continent, it has failed to revive economies. The media have played an important ideological role in presenting the policies of economic and political elites in a favourable light, even if the latter’s ...
Gender Perspectives and Gender Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis
1st Edition
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By Rania Antonopoulos
May 06, 2016
With the full effects of the Great Recession still unfolding, this collection of essays analyses the gendered economic impacts of the crisis. The volume, from an international set of contributors, argues that gender-differentiated economic roles and responsibilities within households and markets ...
Civil Society, the Third Sector and Social Enterprise: Governance and Democracy
1st Edition
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By Jean-Louis Laville, Dennis Young, Philippe Eynaud
April 27, 2016
If the twentieth century was only focused on the complementarity and the opposition of market and state, the twenty-first century has now to deal with the prominence of the third sector, the emergence of social enterprises and other solidarity hybrid forms. The concept of civil society ...
Order and Control in American Socio-Economic Thought: Social Scientists and Progressive-Era Reform
1st Edition
By Charles McCann
April 27, 2016
The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, American social scientists, drawing on their experiences with the German social welfare ...
Hegel, Institutions and Economics: Performing the Social
1st Edition
By Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Ivan Boldyrev
March 03, 2016
Hegel’s philosophy has witnessed periods of revival and oblivion, at times considered to be an unrivalled and all-embracing system of thought, but often renounced with no less ardour. This book renews the dialogue with Hegel by looking at his legacy as a source of insight and judgement ...
Fiscal Decentralization and Local Public Finance in Japan
1st Edition
By Nobuki Mochida
February 29, 2016
The intergovernmental fiscal issue is highly relevant given the worldwide movement toward more decentralized governance in both industrial and developing countries. Over the course of five decades Japan has developed a robust system of decentralized governance. This book investigates ...
Issues in Positive Political Economy
1st Edition
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By S. Mansoob Murshed
December 07, 2015
Political economy - the original name for economics in its entirety - has in recent years witnessed a semantic broadening to include some of the preoccupations of classical economics. This intriguing collection of contributed work is concerned mainly with developments in the neo-classical tradition...
Transcending Transaction: The Search for Self-Generating Markets
1st Edition
By Alan Shipman
December 07, 2015
Transcending Transaction examines recent attempts to show how, in theory and history, market transaction can emerge from the unregulated interaction of competitive traders. Alan Shipman examines the legal, informational, organisational, social and financial foundations of market trade, focusing on ...