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.
Of Synthetic Finance: Three Essays of Speculative Materialism
1st Edition
By Benjamin Lozano
September 18, 2018
Synthetic finance revolutionizes materialism such that we can now create wealth in the process of universally distributing it. While financial innovation in global capitalism provided the conditions for the 2008 financial crisis, it has also engineered a set of financial technologies with universal...
Capitalism and the Political Economy of Work Time
1st Edition
By Christoph Hermann
August 23, 2018
John Maynard Keynes expected that around the year 2030 people would only work 15 hours a week. In the mid-1960s, Jean Fourastié still anticipated the introduction of the 30-hour week in the year 2000, when productivity would continue to grow at an established pace. Productivity growth slowed down ...
New Financial Ethics: A Normative Approach
1st Edition
By Aloy Soppe
August 14, 2018
Following the internationalisation, globalisation and deregulation of the financial market over the last few decades, the financial sector has evolved from a servicing industry into an initiating and leading sector in the international industrialised economy. The power of the financial sector, ...
The Responsible Economy
1st Edition
By Jefferson Frank
August 09, 2018
After the ‘financial crisis’ and ‘Great Recession’, some have called for replacing standard economic theory by heterodox models based upon behavioural approaches. The Responsible Economy argues that there is nothing wrong with economic theory. Instead, the problem has been a ‘devil’s pact’ of ...
Income Distribution and Environmental Sustainability: A Sraffian Approach
1st Edition
By Robin Hahnel
July 27, 2018
Any economics that does not deal forthrightly with economic inequality is no longer suitable for the twenty-first century. Similarly, any economics which does not provide a coherent way to integrate environmental sustainability into economic analysis will fail to command allegiance in the century ...
Inequality in Financial Capitalism
1st Edition
By Pasquale Tridico
July 27, 2018
Recently, the issue of inequality has regained attention in the economic and political debate. This is due to both an increase in income inequality, in particular among rich countries, and an increasing interest in this issue by researchers and politicians. In the last three decades, income ...
A New Economics for Modern Dynamic Economies: Innovation, uncertainty and entrepreneurship
1st Edition
By Angelo Fusari
July 24, 2018
It is becoming increasingly clear that a new economics is required for investigating modern dynamic economies and the coming social world. Important features of those economies, such as innovation, uncertainty and entrepreneurship, are usually considered capitalist features. This may have been true...
Quantum Macroeconomics: The legacy of Bernard Schmitt
1st Edition
Edited
By Jean-Luc Bailly, Alvaro Cencini, Sergio Rossi
July 24, 2018
Quantum Macroeconomics presents a new paradigm in macroeconomic analysis initiated by Bernard Schmitt. It explains the historical origin, the analytical contents, and the actual relevance of this new paradigm, with respect to current major economic issues at national and international level. These ...
The Economic Ideas of Marx's Capital: Steps towards post-Keynesian economics
1st Edition
By Ludo Cuyvers
July 24, 2018
Nearly two hundred years have passed since the birth of Karl Marx and continuing to this day the influence of his economic views, insights and theories can still be felt. However, since the publication of Das Kapital, the scientific community has not been sitting idle – it is time to evaluate Marx ...
The Rejuvenation of Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Nobuharu Yokokawa, Kiichiro Yagi, Hiroyasu Uemura, Richard Westra
June 28, 2018
This book provides the basic knowledge of Japanese contributions in political economy and the ongoing research agenda, such as the pursuit of theoretical consistency in Marxian economics by Uno School; the concept of ‘civil society’ as a criterion of existing socio-economic structure; a ...
Creative Research in Economics
1st Edition
By Arnold Wentzel
June 01, 2018
Researchers are expected to produce original findings, yet nobody explains how original contributions are conceived in economics. Recently there have been calls for more creativity in economic research, yet there is no literature that explores creative research apart from collections of ...
Theoretical Foundations of Macroeconomic Policy: Growth, productivity and public finance
1st Edition
Edited
By Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Enrico Saltari
April 30, 2018
The recent economic events driven by the great financial crisis of 2007-08 has challenged some "dogma", highlighting various limits and drawbacks of current paradigms. The crisis showed the limitations of monetary policy and led to a revaluation of what levels of public debt can be considered safe....