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.
Rationality and Explanation in Economics
1st Edition
By Maurice Lagueux
August 12, 2014
Economical questions indisputably occupy a central place in everyday life. In order to clarify these questions, people generally turn to those who are familiar with economics. In answering such legitimate questions, economists propose explanations which rest on a few principles among which the ...
Value, Distribution and Capital
1st Edition
Edited
By Gary Mongiovi, Fabio Petri
August 12, 2014
This book explores some of the most important themes in neo-Ricardian economics. It explores the many contributions of Pierangelo Garengnani to modern economics, including his work in capital theory, the theory of effective demand and stability analysis. Contributors include Paul Samuelson, John ...
Business Ethics and the Austrian Tradition in Economics
1st Edition
By Hardy Bouillon
June 19, 2014
Stakeholder value, corporate social responsibility and sustainability: Are these, and similar, concepts sufficiently clear for fruitful research in business ethics? What is the benchmark to prove their utility? Business Ethics and the Austrian Tradition in Economics is a treatise on the fundamental...
Economics and Diversity
1st Edition
By Carlo D'Ippoliti
June 19, 2014
The bulk of contemporary economics assumes rather than explains differences between people or groups of people. Yet, many of these differences are produced by society or they imply differing opportunities and outcomes. This book argues that economists should concern themselves with the explanation ...
Economics and the Price Index
1st Edition
By Sydney N. Afriat, Carlo Milana
June 19, 2014
The price index, a pervasive long established institution for economics, is a number issued by the Statistical Office that should tell anyone the ratio of costs of maintaining a given standard of living in two periods where prices differ. For a chain of three periods, the product of the ratios ...
Hahn and Economic Methodology
1st Edition
By Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman
June 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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 19, 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...