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.
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 ...
Uncertainty and Economics: A Paradigmatic Perspective
1st Edition
By Christian Müller-Kademann
September 30, 2020
This book is set against the assumption that humans' unique feature is their infinite creativity, their ability to reflect on their deeds and to control their actions. These skills give rise to genuine uncertainty in society and hence in the economy. Here, the author sets out that uncertainty must ...
Class and Property in Marx's Economic Thought: Exploring the Basis for Capitalism
1st Edition
By Jørgen Sandemose
August 14, 2020
This book presents the capitalist system as a function of the interaction of the three basic classes in the capitalist social formation. Through this, it shows how the corresponding conflicts and clashes of interests between those classes – industrial capitalists, wage labourers and landed ...
Labour Managed Firms and Post-Capitalism
1st Edition
By Bruno Jossa
August 14, 2020
Marx claims that unselfishness is a child of (workplace) culture, whereas the gene is selfish. If Marx is right then the prerequisite for overthrowing capitalism is a system which both leverages selfishness and creates solidarity between workers. This book illustrates and discusses the major points...
Philosophy in the Time of Economic Crisis: Pragmatism and Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Kenneth W. Stikkers, Krzysztof Piotr Skowroński
August 14, 2020
For over 2000 years, economics was studied in the West as a branch of ethics, or moral philosophy. Presently, though, few economists and no textbook in economic orthodoxy claim any close connection between economic science and philosophy. However, might the current ‘crises’ in economics, and in the...
Public Policy and the Neo-Weberian State
1st Edition
Edited
By Stanisław Mazur, Piotr Kopycinski
August 14, 2020
The neo-Weberian state constitutes an attempt to combine the Weberian model of administration with the principles laid down during the retreat from the bureaucratic management paradigm (new public management and public governance). The concept of neo-Weberian state involves changing the model of ...
Representing Public Credit: Credible commitment, fiction, and the rise of the financial subject
1st Edition
By Natalie Roxburgh
August 14, 2020
Public credit was controversial in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. It entailed new ways of thinking about the individual in relation to the State and was for many reasons a site of cultural negotiation and debate. At the same time, it required commitment from participants in order to ...
Resisting Financialization with Deleuze and Guattari
1st Edition
By Charles Barthold
August 14, 2020
Resisting Financialization with Deleuze and Guattari aims to provide a contribution in relation to three main areas: the understanding of contemporary capitalism and financialization from a critical perspective; the analysis of resistance to financialization; and the better understanding of the ...
The Fascist Nature of Neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Andrea Micocci, Flavia Di Mario
August 14, 2020
Capitalism is based on a false logic in which all facts and ideas are reduced to a consideration of their ‘feasibility’ within the capitalist system. Thus, all mainstream economic and political theories, including those such as Marxism which are supposed to offer an alternative vision, have been ...
The Political Economy of Contemporary Spain: From Miracle to Mirage
1st Edition
Edited
By Luis Buendía, Ricardo Molero-Simarro
August 14, 2020
The so-called ‘Spanish miracle’, beginning in the mid-1990s, eventually became a nightmare for the majority of the population, culminating in the present-day economic and political crisis. This book explores the main features of the Spanish political-economic model during both the growth and crisis...
The Political Economy of Lula’s Brazil
1st Edition
Edited
By Pedro Chadarevian
August 14, 2020
The Political Economy of Lula’s Brazil describes the social, political and economic transformations that led to increased interest in the tropical giant at the start of the 21st century. This volume demonstrates that Brazil’s rise was the result of the adoption of heterodox economic policies, while...