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.
Hegel, Institutions and Economics: Performing the Social
1st Edition
By Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Ivan Boldyrev
March 03, 2016
Hegel’s philosophy has witnessed periods of revival and oblivion, at times considered to be an unrivalled and all-embracing system of thought, but often renounced with no less ardour. This book renews the dialogue with Hegel by looking at his legacy as a source of insight and judgement ...
Fiscal Decentralization and Local Public Finance in Japan
1st Edition
By Nobuki Mochida
February 29, 2016
The intergovernmental fiscal issue is highly relevant given the worldwide movement toward more decentralized governance in both industrial and developing countries. Over the course of five decades Japan has developed a robust system of decentralized governance. This book investigates ...
Issues in Positive Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By S. Mansoob Murshed
December 07, 2015
Political economy - the original name for economics in its entirety - has in recent years witnessed a semantic broadening to include some of the preoccupations of classical economics. This intriguing collection of contributed work is concerned mainly with developments in the neo-classical tradition...
Transcending Transaction: The Search for Self-Generating Markets
1st Edition
By Alan Shipman
December 07, 2015
Transcending Transaction examines recent attempts to show how, in theory and history, market transaction can emerge from the unregulated interaction of competitive traders. Alan Shipman examines the legal, informational, organisational, social and financial foundations of market trade, focusing on ...
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...
Exit from Globalization
1st Edition
By Richard Westra
November 17, 2015
Exit from Globalization moves from theory to practice: from questions of where incorrigible knowledge of substantive economic life derives and how that knowledge is put towards making a progressive, redistributive, eco-sustainable future of human flourishing. Westra discards at the outset views ...
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 Sydney 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...