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.
Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Vela Velupillai
June 28, 2012
Jean-Paul Fitoussi needs no introduction as one of the world's foremost Macroeconomists of his generation. This celebration of his work includes contributions from Nobel Prize - winning economists Robert W. Clower and Robert Solow as well as Olivier Blanchard and leading economic theorist, Edmond ...
Capital Controversy, Post Keynesian Economics and the History of Economic Thought: Essays in Honour of Geoff Harcourt, Volume One
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Arestis, Gabriel Palma, Malcolm Sawyer
June 20, 2012
Harcourt has made substantial and wide-ranging contributions to economics in general, and to post Keynesian economics in particular. In this volume more than forty leading economists pay tribute to and critically evaluate his work. The contributors represent a wide range of schools in economics, ...
Full-Spectrum Economics: Toward an Inclusive and Emancipatory Social Science
1st Edition
By Christian Arnsperger
April 20, 2012
Economics is essential in today’s world, and yet mainstream economists are increasingly under criticism for not taking into account sufficiently many dimensions of real life, such as political and moral values, human development, spirituality, and people’s widely shared aspiration to live more ...
Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy: The Social Effort Bargain
1st Edition
By Robert LaJeunesse
December 01, 2011
Robert LaJeunesse looks beyond the 20th century arguments for shortening the work week. He writes a careful, convincing critique of traditional full employment policies in advocacy of an alternative macroeconomic paradigm. With an emphasis on greater socioeconomic participation, the author proposes...
Religion, Economics and Demography: The Effects of Religion on Education, Work, and the Family
1st Edition
By Evelyn Lehrer
September 14, 2011
Using the tools of economics, this book analyses how religion affects decisions and outcomes in a wide range of areas, including education, employment, family size, entry into cohabitation and formal marriage, the choice of spouse and divorce. In each case, the relationships are rigorously ...
Capitalism, Institutions, and Economic Development
1st Edition
By Michael G. Heller
August 15, 2011
Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Weber, Schumpeter, Hayek, Popper, and Parsons, this book reconceptualizes actually-existing capitalism. It proposes capitalism as an impersonal procedural solution to the problems of spontaneously coordinating public institutions that ...
Political Economy and Globalization
1st Edition
By Richard Westra
August 15, 2011
Based upon distinguishing capitalism from other economic systems, as well as analysis of capitalist change across its stages of development, Richard Westra argues that the economic tendencies we refer to as globalization constitute a world historic transition away from capitalism. Westra forcefully...
Sublime Economy: On the intersection of art and economics
1st Edition
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By Jack Amariglio, Joseph W. Childers, Stephen E. Cullenberg
August 11, 2010
Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "the economy" as sublime. It might even be said that much of the emergence of a distinctly "modern" art in the West is inextricably linked to the perception of art’s ...
The 'Uncertain' Foundations of Post Keynesian Economics: Essays in Exploration
1st Edition
By Stephen Dunn
August 11, 2010
This important new book introduces, analyzes and takes forward a post-Keynesian theory of the firm. It makes a vital contribution to the conceptualisation of uncertainty that is consistent with the methodological presuppositions of Post Keynesian economics. The author attempts to make a positive ...
Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Boylan, Ruvin Gekker
July 06, 2010
Following Amartya Sen’s insistence to expand the framework of rational choice theory by taking into account ‘non-utility information,’ economists, political scientists and philosophers have recently concentrated their efforts in analysing the issues related to rights, freedom, diversity intentions ...
Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounters with Identity/Difference
1st Edition
By Nitasha Kaul
July 06, 2010
It is possible to be ‘irrational’ without being ‘uneconomic’? What is the link between ‘Value’ and ‘values’? What do economists do when they ‘explain’? We live in times when the economic logic has become unquestionable and all-powerful so that our quotidian economic experiences are defined by their...
Karl Marx’s Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy 150 years later
1st Edition
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By Marcello Musto
July 06, 2010
Written between 1857 and 1858, the Grundrisse is the first draft of Marx’s critique of political economy and, thus, also the initial preparatory work on Capital. Despite its editorial vicissitudes and late publication, Grundrisse contains numerous reflections on matters that Marx did not develop ...