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.
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 ...
Freedom and Happiness in Economic Thought and Philosophy: From Clash to Reconciliation
1st Edition
Edited
By Ragip Ege, Herrade Igersheim
November 08, 2013
Starting from a distinction made by the American philosopher, John Rawls, in 2000 between two kinds of liberalism, "liberalism of freedom" and "liberalism of happiness", this book presents a range of articles by economists and philosophers debating the most fundamental aspects of the subject. These...
Happiness, Ethics and Economics
1st Edition
By Johannes Hirata
November 08, 2013
Despite decades of empirical happiness research, there is still little evidence for the positive effect of economic growth on life satisfaction. This poses a major challenge to welfare economic theory and to normative conceptions of socio-economic development. This book endeavours to explain these ...
Institutional Economics and National Competitiveness
1st Edition
Edited
By Young Back Choi
November 08, 2013
This book offers a strong contribution to the growing field of institutional economics, going beyond the question of why institutions matter and examines the ways in which different types of institutions are conducive to the enhancement of competitiveness and economic development. Adopting a ...
Monetary Macrodynamics
1st Edition
By Toichiro Asada, Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Reiner Franke
November 08, 2013
This book investigates the interaction of effective goods demand with the wage-price spiral, and the impact of monetary policy on financial and the real markets from a Keynesian perspective. Endogenous business fluctuations are studied in the context of long-run distributive cycles in an advanced, ...
The Global Economic Crisis: New Perspectives on the Critique of Economic Theory and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Emiliano Brancaccio, Giuseppe Fontana
November 08, 2013
Why did the economists of the so-called "mainstream" seem to fail to foresee the global economic crisis that exploded in 2008? And why do they appear to have difficulty in putting forward an interpretation of it that is consistent with the theoretical foundations of their models? These two ...