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.
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms
1st Edition
By Giampaolo Conte
December 26, 2025
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression ‘liberal reform’ has entered common parlance as an evocative image of austerity and economic malaise, especially for the working classes and a segment ...
Economics as Rhetoric: The Thought of Bernard Maris
1st Edition
By Anne Isla
December 26, 2025
Bernard Maris was killed in Paris on January 7, 2015, during the terrorist attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. He remains one of the most original intellectuals of contemporary France, but despite being a uniquely original heterodox thinker, his international reputation has been ...
Income Redistribution, Inequality and Democracy: A Political Economy Approach
1st Edition
By Hwan Joo Seo, Sung Jin Kang
December 26, 2025
This book examines why democracy has failed to deliver effective solutions to income inequality problems over the last four decades, and if democracy can offer solutions to various increases in inequality in the future. It also addresses what elements are necessary for democracy to serve as an ...
Inequality: Economic and Social Issues
1st Edition
Edited
By Mats Lundahl, Daniel Rauhut, Neelambar Hatti
December 26, 2025
Inequalities of opportunity affect a person’s life expectancy and access to basic services and human rights through discrimination, abuse, and lack of access to justice. High levels of inequality of opportunity discourage skill accumulation, choke economic and social mobility, and, consequently, ...
Financial Democracy: Comparative Political Economy of Banking
1st Edition
By Kurt Mettenheim, Olivier Butzbach
December 05, 2025
Elaborating a new approach to the comparative political economy of banking, Financial Democracy presents evidence of both the recent return to traditional bank management and the resurgence of alternative banks with social and public policy missions. The book begins with a critique of contemporary ...
Financial Stability, Risks, and Ecological Transition: Addressing Economic Challenges Under Global Uncertainty
1st Edition
Edited
By Lyubov Klapkiv, Faruk Ulgen
December 01, 2025
The evolution of capitalist economies through waves of liberalization of markets over the last five decades led to structural changes and greater systemic risks. This book presents economic research into the roots and remedies of these risks, particularly exploring the key issues of financial ...
A History of Financialization: Inequality, Debt and Crisis from Liberalism to Neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Lars Ahnland
November 23, 2025
Analyzing long-cycle patterns during the twentieth century, this book presents novel findings on how core features of financialization are interconnected across advanced economies. It proposes that, since the late nineteenth century, international macroeconomic policy regimes have favored either ...
International Economic and Monetary Architecture at the Crossroads: Bretton Woods at 80
1st Edition
Edited
By Atish R. Ghosh, Fabio Masini
November 18, 2025
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank were founded at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference on the premise that international cooperation and multilateralism would be to the benefit and enrichment of all. Yet, the establishment and evolution of the global financial architecture into its ...
On Value and Valuation
1st Edition
By John Frow
November 14, 2025
On Value and Valuation asks whether the category of economic value remains theoretically viable, how value is formed, and how it should be understood. It explores the interlinkages between economic value and social and cultural values. On the one hand, the book draws on anthropological and ...
Reinterpreting Libertarianism: New Directions in Libertarian Studies
1st Edition
Edited
By Łukasz Dominiak, Igor Wysocki, Stanisław Wójtowicz, Dawid Megger
November 06, 2025
This volume provides a thorough reconsideration of libertarian theory, offering novel perspectives that challenge established assumptions and initiate new directions for philosophical, legal and economic investigation. By tackling such topics as voluntariness, dignity and inalienability of rights, ...
The Circular Economy and Institutional Change: Transformation in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
By Yilmaz Kaplan
November 06, 2025
The climate crisis has emerged as a consequence of the linear economic system that developed in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution. In recent years, global actors have recognised the need for institutional change from the linear economy to a more sustainable alternative: The circular ...
Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown
1st Edition
By Güney Işıkara, Patrick Mokre
September 30, 2025
Why do humans produce the things they do, in the way they do it? As this book shows, the classical political economics approach to value and prices has fundamental implications for analyzing the historical trajectory of capitalism. It demonstrates that the classical political economists’ ...