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.
Information Technology and Socialist Construction: The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism
1st Edition
By Daniel E. Saros
May 01, 2014
The failure of command central planning in the twentieth century has led to a general disillusionment within the socialist movement worldwide. Some alternatives to capitalism have been proposed since the end of the Cold War, but none has offered an alternative form of economic calculation. This ...
Economics Versus Human Rights
1st Edition
By Manuel Couret Branco
April 28, 2014
Human rights and economics are the concepts that have contributed the most to free human kind, the former from fear and the latter from need. Consequently, they should be complementing rather competing. Unfortunately it does not seem to be the case. In this book Manuel Couret Branco shows how ...
Fiscal Policy Convergence from Reagan to Blair: The Left Veers Right
1st Edition
By Arthur T. Denzau, Ravi K. Roy
April 09, 2014
The elections of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair in the 1990s saw the consolidation and completion of critical aspects of the Reagan-Thatcher fiscal agenda. This impressive book critically analyzes this process. It has been previously thought that this process of adopting common fiscal policies was ...
Methodology, Microeconomics and Keynes: Essays in Honour of Victoria Chick, Volume 2
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Arestis, Meghnad Desai, Sheila Dow
April 09, 2014
This volume, a companion to Money, Macroeconomics and Keynes, represents both consolidation and the breaking of new ground in Keynesian methodology and microeconomics by leading figures in these fields....
Normative Political Economy: Subjective Freedom, the Market and the State
1st Edition
By David P. Levine
April 09, 2014
Normative Political Economy explores the criteria we use for judging economic institutions and economic policy. It argues that prevailing criteria lack sufficient depth in their understanding of subjective experience. David Levine's arguments cover topics which include: * basic needs, equality and...
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 ...