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.
Hahn and Economic Methodology
1st Edition
By Thomas A. Boylan, Paschal F. O'Gorman
June 23, 2014
Hahn on Methodology: The Quest for Understanding addresses two fundamental questions: (i) what is distinctive about economic theorising?; (ii) what is the cognitive value of the outcome of this activity of economic theorising, i.e. economic theory. We will argue that for Hahn, economic theorising ...
Macroeconomic Policy Regimes in Western Industrial Countries
1st Edition
By Hansjörg Herr, Milka Kazandziska
June 23, 2014
This book analyses how the economic crisis in the 1970s led to the erosion of the regulated type of capitalism that came to be in place after World War II, and paved the way to a Neoliberal Globalisation. Deep structural institutional changes especially in the field of financial markets, labour ...
Risk in International Finance
1st Edition
By Vikash Yadav
June 23, 2014
This book analyzes the evolution and impact of the concept of risk on processes of transnational banking and financial market regulation, as well as the externalities generated by speculative financial activity in developing and emerging market economies. The author provides an alternative theory...
The Consumer, Credit and Neoliberalism: Governing the Modern Economy
1st Edition
By Christopher Payne
June 23, 2014
This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in 2007-8. It demonstrates that influential economists, such as F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, authors at key ...
The Market, Happiness, and Solidarity: A Christian perspective
1st Edition
By Johan J. Graafland
June 23, 2014
The past two decades of market operation has generated welfare and economic growth in Western countries, but increasing income inequalities, depletion of the natural environment and the current financial crisis have led to an intense debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the free market....
Capital, Exploitation and Economic Crisis
1st Edition
By John Weeks
May 30, 2014
In 2008 the capitalist world was swept by the severest crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Mainstream economics neither anticipated nor could account for this disastrous financial crisis, which required massive state intervention throughout the capitalist world. Karl Marx did anticipate...
Capitalist Diversity and Diversity within Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Wood, Christel Lane
May 30, 2014
The economic crisis that began in 2008 has underscored the impact not only of embedded and assumed ways of managing the economy, but also that present circumstances are the product of a long period of experimentation and bounded diversity; it is understanding the nature of both that forms a central...
Political Economy After Economics: Scientific Method and Radical Imagination
1st Edition
By David Laibman
May 30, 2014
This re-incorporation of economics into political economy is one (small, but not insignificant) element in a larger project: to place all of the resources of present-day social-scientific research at the service of increasing democracy, in an ultimate direction toward socialism in the classic sense...
Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 1: Partial Perspectives
1st Edition
By Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Willi Semmler
May 30, 2014
This book represents the first 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. It ...
Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man: A Construction and Deconstruction
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulla Grapard, Gillian Hewitson
May 30, 2014
In this book, economists and literary scholars examine the uses to which the Robinson Crusoe figure has been put by the economics discipline since the publication of Defoe’s novel in 1719. The authors’ critical readings of two centuries of texts that have made use of Robinson Crusoe undermine the ...
The Irreconcilable Inconsistencies of Neoclassical Macroeconomics: A False Paradigm
1st Edition
By John Weeks
May 30, 2014
In the course of this book it is argued that the loss of what is essentially "macro" in Keynes is the result of a preference for a form of equilibrium analysis that gives unqualified support to the ideology of free markets. In the case of Marx, his theory of exploitation and from this the stress on...
Economics, Sustainability, and Democracy: Economics in the Era of Climate Change
1st Edition
By Christopher Nobbs
May 19, 2014
How should we conduct economics in an era of climate change, natural resource depletion and population increase? These issues are systemic, and involve great uncertainties and long time horizons. This book contends that the free-market economics that has dominated capitalist democracies in recent ...