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.
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 ...
The Economics of Military Spending: A Marxist Perspective
1st Edition
By Adem Yavuz Elveren
December 18, 2020
The Economics of Military Spending offers a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy. It is the first book to provide both a theoretical and an empirical investigation of how military spending affects the profit rate, a key indicator of the health of a ...
The Problem of Political Trust: A Conceptual Reformulation
1st Edition
By Grant Duncan
December 18, 2020
Trust has been the subject of empirical and theoretical inquiry in a range of disciplines, including sociology, economics, psychology, philosophy, public policy and political theory. The book approaches trust from a multi-disciplinary scope of inquiry. It explains why most existing ...
Economics for an Information Age: Money-Bargaining, Support-Bargaining and the Information Interface
1st Edition
By Patrick Spread
September 30, 2020
Economics for an Information Age examines the central role of information within economics and society. The neoclassical economic model, taught as ‘mainstream economics’ in universities around the world, relies on a mathematical model of ‘resource allocation’ in which private advantage gives rise ...
Marx's Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcello Musto
September 30, 2020
Faced with a new crisis of capitalism, many scholars are now looking back to the author whose ideas were too hastily dismissed after the fall of the Berlin Wall. During the last decade, Marx’s Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention. It has been reprinted in new editions ...
Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 3: Macroeconomic Activity, Banking and Financial Markets
1st Edition
By Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Willi Semmler
September 30, 2020
This book represents the third of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction.This book ...
Structural Analysis and the Process of Economic Development
1st Edition
Edited
By Jonas Ljungberg
September 30, 2020
Economic development is full of discontinuities. Mainstream economists perceive these as external disturbances to a natural state of equilibrium, but this book argues that much of the discontinuities are part of economic development, suggesting that patterns can be understood with structural ...
The Evolution of Economies: Money-bargaining, economic change and industrial revolution
1st Edition
By Patrick Spread
September 30, 2020
It is clear even to casual observation that economies evolve from year to year and over centuries. Yet mainstream economic theory assumes that economies always move towards equilibrium. One consequence of this is that mainstream theory is unable to deal with economic history. The Evolution of ...