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.
Cognitive Developments in Economics
1st Edition
By Salvatore Rizzello
December 01, 2015
Cognitive Developments in Economics proposes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human problem solving, choice, decision-making and change, to explain economic transactions, and the nature and evolution of organisations and institutions. The book contributes to a large spectrum of ...
The Political Economy of Middle East Peace: The Impact of Competing Trade Agendas
1st Edition
Edited
By J.W. Wright Jr.
November 27, 2015
The Political Economy of Middle East Peace looks at the political economy of the Middle Eastern peace process with a focus on the politics of trade. Contributors investigate the ways new commercial alliances develop as a result of economic agencies established via the Arab-Israeli peace process and...
Inherited Wealth, Justice and Equality
1st Edition
Edited
By Guido Erreygers, John Cunliffe
September 03, 2015
The core of the book consists of a selection of papers presented at an international workshop where researchers from a variety of fields and countries discussed the connections between inherited wealth, justice and equality. The volume is complemented by a few other papers commissioned by the ...
The End of Finance: Capital Market Inflation, Financial Derivatives and Pension Fund Capitalism
1st Edition
By Jan Toporowski
August 25, 2015
This volume develops an original critique of the belief that the present era of finance, where finance markets dominate contemporary capitalist economies, represents the best possible way of organising economic affairs. In fact, it is argued, the ensuing economic instability and inefficiency ...
The Market: Equilibrium, Stability, Mythology
1st Edition
By S.N. Afriat
July 20, 2015
This punchy book unites mainline mathematical economics and sometimes idiosyncratic political economy. Freshness is brought to the market concept giving general equilibrium theory a new lease of life, and an opening of thought on such matters as free trade, globalization and the environment.Where ...
Beyond Mainstream Explanations of the Financial Crisis: Parasitic Finance Capital
1st Edition
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
June 08, 2015
This book provides a critique of the neoclassical explanations of the 2008 financial collapse, of the ensuing long recession and of the neoliberal austerity responses to it. The study argues that while the prevailing views of deregulation and financialization as instrumental culprits in the ...
Economic Indeterminacy: A personal encounter with the economists' peculiar nemesis
1st Edition
By Yanis Varoufakis
June 08, 2015
This volume is a collection of some of the best and most influential work of Yanis Varoufakis. The chapters all address the issue of economic indeterminacy, and the place of a socialized Homo Economicus within the economy. The book addresses Varoufakis’ key interpretation regarding the way in which...
Power in Business and the State: An Historical Analysis of its Concentration
1st Edition
By Frank Bealey
June 08, 2015
It is commonplace that political power is becoming more centralized and remote: faceless people, sometimes in unknown places, determine our circumstances and our opportunities. This ground breaking book argues that this happened through a slow development which began before globalization.Power in ...
Social Economy: The Logic of Capitalist Development
1st Edition
By Clark Everling
June 08, 2015
Contrary to much Marxist thought, Everling does not view socialism as an antithesis to capitalism, and argues that socialism is, among other things, an objective development of capitalism. As capitalism develops it creates the premises for social development which are also the bases for a socialist...
Subjectivism and Economic Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Koppl, Gary Mongiovi
June 08, 2015
Subjectivism plays a fundamental role in many of the leading alternative schools in economics. This work explores major methodological issues in the area of radical subjectivism and includes contributions from Jorg Bibow, Peter Boettke, Maurizio Caserta, Steven Horwitz, Brian J. Loasby, Steven ...
A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis: Demystifying Finance
1st Edition
By Dimitris Sotiropoulos, John Milios, Spyros Lapatsioras
May 21, 2015
The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism, and explores the ways in which it has changed the organization...
Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 2: Integrated Approaches
1st Edition
By Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Willi Semmler
May 21, 2015
This book represents the second 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. In this ...