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.
Interactions in Political Economy: Malvern After Ten Years
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Pressman
December 01, 2014
In recent years there has been a growing dissatisfaction with standard economic theorising which has fostered the development of alternative ways of understanding how economies actually work. Too often though these approaches have been developed in isolation, or even in opposition to each other. ...
Keynes, Post-Keynesianism and Political Economy: Essays in Honour of Geoff Harcourt, Volume III
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Kriesler, Claudio Sardoni
December 01, 2014
Geoff Harcourt has had a major impact on the field of Post-Keynesian economics, not only in his research but also in his teaching. Many of Harcourts students have gone on to make valuable contributions in this field. This volume brings together contributions from thirty such former students, now ...
Mathematical Economics and the Dynamics of Capitalism: Goodwin's Legacy Continued
1st Edition
Edited
By Peter Flaschel, Michael Landesmann
December 01, 2014
Richard Goodwin was a pioneer in the use of mathematical tools to understand the dynamics of capitalist economies. This book contains contributions which focus on the rigorous extension of Goodwin’s modelling of macro-dynamics and the micro-structures underlying them, and also research with a wider...
Subjectivity in Political Economy: Essays on Wanting and Choosing
1st Edition
By David P. Levine
December 01, 2014
This book explores the way political economy understands human motivation. In it, the author argues that the assumptions typically made by economists regarding want and choice cannot adequately lay a foundation for answering important questions about the design of economic institutions and the ...
The Representative Agent in Macroeconomics
1st Edition
By James E Hartley, James E. Hartley
December 01, 2014
Rpresentative agent models have become a predominant means of studying the macroeconomy in modern economics without there being much discussion in the literature about their propriety or usefulness. This volume evaluates the use of these models in macroeconomics, examining the justifications for ...
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 ...