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.
The Political Economy of Foreign Direct Investment in Korea: Evolution, Dynamics, and Contradictions
1st Edition
By You-il Lee, Richard Lee, Yoon-Jong Jang
August 15, 2025
One of the most spectacular phenomena in the South Korean political economy has been the remarkable escalation of international capital investment, particularly inward foreign direct investment (FDI). This book provides an in-depth look at the evolution of FDI in Korea, from the late 1990s to ...
The Macroeconomics of Unemployment: Causes and Eradication
1st Edition
By Bernard Schmitt
August 07, 2025
This book explores unemployment from a monetary macroeconomics perspective, identifying the pathology at the origin of unemployment and the principles of reform that will enable a passage from capitalism to post‑capitalism. Bernard Schmitt explores the problem of involuntary unemployment by ...
Populism and Modern Monetary Theory: Exploring the Rise of Milei in Argentina
1st Edition
By Can Cinar
August 06, 2025
Centred on Javier Milei’s recent ascent, this book explores the cyclical nature of Argentina's economic crises and the corresponding rise of populist leaders. It argues that populism represents a revolutionary stance that should be reclaimed by progressive movements, examining the relationship ...
Economic Theory for the Real World
1st Edition
By Victor A. Beker
July 31, 2025
After the Great Financial Crisis, economic theory was fiercely criticized from both outside and inside the discipline for being incapable of explaining a crisis of such magnitude. Slowly but persistently, new strands of economic thought are developing, to replace the old-fashioned neoclassical ...
Political Economy of the Firm: Authority, Governance, and Economic Democracy
1st Edition
By Helena Lopes, Christophe Clerc
July 31, 2025
An alternative theory of the firm is needed that helps better understand the nature and actual functioning of firms as well as the challenges raised by digital platform firms. In defining firms as economic collective ventures organised by political means, this book offers a “political economy” ...
What is Financialization?
1st Edition
By Taner Akan, Halil İbrahim Gündüz
July 31, 2025
This book introduces a new and original analytic approach to defining, understanding, and explaining financialization. It provides a precise and quantifiable definition of financialization, disaggregating financialization into its three varieties. These are examined through the lens of financial ...
Deglobalization, Financial Inequality, and the Green Economy
1st Edition
By Fikret Čaušević
July 30, 2025
One of the most challenging issues for the current state of global economy is a highly uneven distribution of global financial assets and liabilities. Drawing on extensive data, this book analyses the new global divisions in economic and financial inequality across the globe in the first two ...
Value, Money and Capital: The Critique of Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism
1st Edition
By Guido Starosta, Gastón Caligaris, Alejandro Fitzsimons
July 30, 2025
The book presents a high-impact re-reading of core topics in the Marx and Marxist debates including: value theory, the commodity nature of money, complex or skilled labour, the determination of the value of labour-power and the nature of extraordinary surplus-value. Drawing on this literature, the ...
Realizing an Alternative Political Economy of Sustainability: The Contributions of Radical Ecology and Heterodox Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Arturo Hermann
July 25, 2025
Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability – both as a concept and as a political objective. To that end, this book provides a critical overview of the development of ...
Digital Capitalism and New Institutionalism
1st Edition
By Daniil Frolov
June 27, 2025
Modern institutional economics was created to study the institutions of pre-digital economies and is based on reductionist approaches. But digital capitalism is producing institutions of unprecedented complexity. This book argues, therefore, that not only the economic institutions themselves but ...
Heterodox Economics and Global Emergencies: Voices from Around the World
1st Edition
Edited
By Ariane Agunsoye, Thoralf Dassler, Eurydice Fotopoulou, Jonathan Mulberg
June 27, 2025
From the financial crash to the climate emergency and Covid- 19, this book demonstrates that recent crises have had unequal impacts, they require a heterodox approach to economics for their understanding, and new ways of thinking are needed to address them. Drawing on a variety of heterodox and ...
The Structure and Operation of Modern Economies
1st Edition
By Alessandro Romagnoli
June 27, 2025
This book is about the economy rather than economics. It explores the structures, inner workings and problems of modern economies, showing how the organisations and networks that shape the structure of the economy are arranged to provide society with goods and services. At the centre of the ...