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.
Economist With a Public Purpose: Essays in Honour of John Kenneth Galbraith
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Keaney
April 02, 2014
Galbraith's arguments are discussed by a group of economists in regards to current controversies and problems. Topics covered range from globalization and the role of the state to redistributive economic policies. The result is a collection that pays tribute to one of the most prominent, and yet ...
Microdynamics of Technological Change
1st Edition
By Cristiano Antonelli
April 02, 2014
This volume presents a comprehensive assessment of the economic effects of the emerging information and communication technologies associated with a knowledge-based economy, and looks at how knowledge is increasingly treated as a product in its own right. An original framework is developed to ...
The Active Consumer: Novelty and Surprise in Consumer Choice
1st Edition
Edited
By Marina Bianchi
April 02, 2014
The Active Consumer discusses how consumers seem to delight in trying new solutions and exploring new combinatory possibilities. This book provides an economic-theoretical understanding of this phenomenon and the many ways in which innovation can structure consumer choice. The authors show from ...
The Economics of Science: Methodology and Epistemology as if Economics Really Mattered
1st Edition
By James R Wible
February 25, 2014
Science is difficult and costly to do well. This study systematically creates an economics of science. Many aspects of science are explored from an economic point of view. The scientist is treated as an economically rational individual. This book begins with economic models of misconduct in science...
New Keynesian Economics / Post Keynesian Alternatives
1st Edition
Edited
By Roy Rotheim
February 14, 2014
The New Keynesian Economics has been the most significant development in economics in recent years. Does it actually build upon Keynes' work? In this volume, leading post Keynesian economists challenge New Keynesianism both on the grounds that it is not Keynesian, and does not provide an adequate ...
Producer Cooperatives as a New Mode of Production
1st Edition
By Bruno Jossa
February 12, 2014
The notion that there is no alternative to capitalism emerged after the fall of the Berlin Wall and made rapid headway due to increasing economic globalisation. More recently, this belief that there is no viable alternative has held firm despite the financial crisis, high unemployment levels and an...
Money, Macroeconomics and Keynes: Essays in Honour of Victoria Chick, Volume 1
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Arestis, Meghnad Desai, Sheila Dow
January 30, 2014
This volume, along with its companion volume, Methodology, Microeconomics and Keynes is published in honour of Victoria Chick, inspired by her own contributions to knowledge in all of these areas and their interconnections. It represents both consolidation and the breaking of new ground in ...
Capital as a Social Kind: Definitions and Transformations in the Critique of Political Economy
1st Edition
By Howard Engelskirchen
January 03, 2014
Capital as a Social Kind provides an introduction to social kinds in social theory. Thinking about kinds, the way we sort the things of the world into categories -- water, for example, is a natural kind – has made an important contribution to our understanding of science in the last half century, ...
Probability in Economics
1st Edition
By Omar Hamouda, Robin Rowley
December 12, 2013
Notions of probability and uncertainty have been increasingly prominant in modern economics. This book considers the philosophical and practical difficulties inherent in integrating these concepts into realistic economic situations. It outlines and evaluates the major developments, indicating where...
Dialectics of Class Struggle in the Global Economy
1st Edition
By Clark Everling
November 08, 2013
Much ink has been spilled in attempts to prove that humans are only animals and are, like other species, only aggressive. Marx distinguishes both class and cooperative relations as inorganic: humans create their subjectivity through their mutual social production. They build upon their previous ...
Economic Pluralism
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert F Garnett Jr, Erik Olsen, Martha Starr
November 08, 2013
The leading edges of economic thinking in the early 21st century are marked by a nascent pluralism - a positive valuing of difference and complexity - regarding the nature and evolution of human behaviour and economic organization. Economic Pluralism brings these pluralist sensibilities to the fore...
Equilibrium, Welfare and Uncertainty: Beyond Arrow-Debreu
1st Edition
By Mukul Majumdar
November 08, 2013
One of the fundamental themes in economic theory is the study of the role of prices in achieving an optimal allocation of resources in a competitive, decentralized economy. The book begins with a review of the basic results on the rigorous elaboration of the Walras-Pareto theory (following the ...