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.
Conceptualising an Alternative Political Economy of Sustainability: The Contributions of Radical Ecology and Heterodox Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Arturo Hermann
June 26, 2025
Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability ― both as a concept and as a political objective. To that end, this book provides a far-reaching overview of the development of ...
The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations: Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephan Pühringer, Jens Maesse, Thierry Rossier
June 06, 2025
Discourses around research excellence and quality are predominant within the economic sciences, with various forms of ranking playing a central role. They make “excellence” in research and teaching visible, but they also create hierarchical orders between researchers, institutions, publication ...
Nature and Economic Society: A Classical-Keynesian Synthesis
1st Edition
By Tony Aspromourgos
May 27, 2025
This book focuses on the interrelationship between nature and the human economy. Building upon his decades of research into classical and Keynesian economics, Tony Aspromourgos here turns his attention to the interrelationship between nature and the human economy. The result is a tightly argued, ...
Political Economy of the Spanish Miracle: State, Labor and Capital, 1931–1973
1st Edition
By Diego Ayala
May 27, 2025
In the 1950s and 1960s, Spain underwent one of the most rapid processes of economic development the world had ever seen. Most existing analyses of this process explain the “Spanish Miracle” as a product of the unleashing of market forces and of changes in economic policy made by the Franco regime ...
Researching Poverty and Austerity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodologies and Policy Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline Moraes, Morven G. McEachern, Deirdre O'Loughlin
May 27, 2025
Poverty is a complex global challenge rooted in intertwined social, economic and political factors, which excludes people from participating fully in normalised social and market-based activities. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated poverty-related issues such as food insecurity, and growing ...
Alternative Currencies: A Critical Approach
1st Edition
By Louis Larue
May 06, 2025
A wide variety of new forms of money have been developed in recent decades as a challenge or complement to the official, dominant currencies. LETS, local currencies, carbon currencies, and Bitcoins are all examples of this new trend. These currencies are at the heart of a larger movement that ...
Heterodox Economics of Military Spending
1st Edition
By Adem Yavuz Elveren
April 22, 2025
Covering Institutionalist, Post-Keynesian, Marxist, and Feminist perspectives, Heterodox Economics of Military Spending provides a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy. The impact of military spending on economic growth has always been a crucial issue for ...
The Financial Foundations of Production and Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Andres F. Cantillo
April 14, 2025
Rejecting much of mainstream economic theory for being too passive, this book argues that the innovative and unpredictable nature of economic phenomena is better understood with analytical devices, which allow for more creative and participatory analysis. As is demonstrated, this has significant ...
Transformations of Contemporary Capitalism: The Second Industrial Divide and Flexible Specialisation
1st Edition
By David Evans
April 14, 2025
In recent decades, there has been many attempts to describe, explore, and explain the new ‘post-modern’ capitalism of the twenty-first century. In this context, this book looks at one of the most exciting strands of this research in the late twentieth century: the flexible specialisation research ...
Innovation in Capitalist Economies: Crises, Challenges and Opportunities
1st Edition
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By Faruk Ülgen, Lyubov Klapkiv
March 03, 2025
Innovation is critical to increasing global prosperity and also essential to surviving and overcoming the ongoing challenges of pandemics, wars, climate change, and systemic financial turmoil. At the same time, major corporations seek to transform new knowledge and scientific progress into ...
A Financial Theory of the Business Cycle: Net Present Value and Fractional Reserve Banking
1st Edition
By Edward W. Fuller, Warren Young
February 17, 2025
A Financial Theory of the Business Cycle presents a new approach to business cycle theory based on the net present value. The book develops a novel diagrammatic approach to illustrate how fractional reserve banking systematically distorts net-present-value calculations. In addition to providing ...
International Taxation and Capitalism: A Heterodox Economics Perspective
1st Edition
By Andrés Blanco
February 04, 2025
The book introduces a novel approach to international taxation through the lens of heterodox economic and social theories, in particular Marxism. The book argues that the radical reorganization of the international tax system that has been underway for the last few decades – initiated by the OECD, ...