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.
Choice in Everyday Life: Individuals, Incommensurability and Democracy
1st Edition
By Robert Urquhart
September 18, 2012
Social choice and decision-making are key topics in economic theory and Robert Urquhart delves into the world of philosophy in this superb new book....
Individualism and the Social Order: The Social Element in Liberal Thought
1st Edition
By Charles McCann
September 10, 2012
Liberalism is typically misconceived as a philosophy of individualism, which cannot accept that man exists in society and that man's values are shaped by that society.This book attempts to identify the role of community and society in the political and social thought of leading liberal social ...
Rethinking Capitalist Development: Essays on the Economics of Josef Steindl
1st Edition
Edited
By Tracy Mott, Nina Shapiro
September 10, 2012
This collection honours the work of the eminent economist Josef Steindl. Steindl's work is illuminated through a critical appraisal of its central constructs with a focus on its relevance to current economic conditions. This collection charts the thinking of one of the leading economic theorists of...
The Flawed Foundations of General Equilibrium Theory: Critical Essays on Economic Theory
1st Edition
By Frank Ackerman, Alejandro Nadal, Kevin P. Gallagher
September 10, 2012
This book, as the title suggests, explains how General equilibrium, the dominant conceptual framework in mainstream economics, describes a perfectly impossible world. Even with its counterfactual assumptions taken for granted, it fails on many levels. Under the impressive editorship of Ackerman and...
The Struggle Over Work: The 'End of Work' and Employment Alternatives in Post-Industrial Societies
1st Edition
By Shaun Wilson
September 10, 2012
The future of work in advanced industrial democracies is the subject of intense debate and public concern. Despite predictions that working hours would fall and leisure time would rise as society progressed, the opposite has in fact occurred. This new book contains a twofold investigation into 'the...
Inequality and Power: The Economics of Class
1st Edition
By Eric A. Schutz
July 26, 2012
This book is about the causes and consequences of economic inequality in the advanced market economies of today. It is commonplace that in market systems people choose their own individual economic destinies, but of course the choices people make are importantly determined by the alternatives ...
Macroeconomic Theory and Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of Jean-Paul Fitoussi
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Vela Velupillai
June 28, 2012
Jean-Paul Fitoussi needs no introduction as one of the world's foremost Macroeconomists of his generation. This celebration of his work includes contributions from Nobel Prize - winning economists Robert W. Clower and Robert Solow as well as Olivier Blanchard and leading economic theorist, Edmond ...
Capital Controversy, Post Keynesian Economics and the History of Economic Thought: Essays in Honour of Geoff Harcourt, Volume One
1st Edition
Edited
By Philip Arestis, Gabriel Palma, Malcolm Sawyer
June 20, 2012
Harcourt has made substantial and wide-ranging contributions to economics in general, and to post Keynesian economics in particular. In this volume more than forty leading economists pay tribute to and critically evaluate his work. The contributors represent a wide range of schools in economics, ...
Full-Spectrum Economics: Toward an Inclusive and Emancipatory Social Science
1st Edition
By Christian Arnsperger
April 20, 2012
Economics is essential in today’s world, and yet mainstream economists are increasingly under criticism for not taking into account sufficiently many dimensions of real life, such as political and moral values, human development, spirituality, and people’s widely shared aspiration to live more ...
Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy: The Social Effort Bargain
1st Edition
By Robert LaJeunesse
December 01, 2011
Robert LaJeunesse looks beyond the 20th century arguments for shortening the work week. He writes a careful, convincing critique of traditional full employment policies in advocacy of an alternative macroeconomic paradigm. With an emphasis on greater socioeconomic participation, the author proposes...
Religion, Economics and Demography: The Effects of Religion on Education, Work, and the Family
1st Edition
By Evelyn Lehrer
September 14, 2011
Using the tools of economics, this book analyses how religion affects decisions and outcomes in a wide range of areas, including education, employment, family size, entry into cohabitation and formal marriage, the choice of spouse and divorce. In each case, the relationships are rigorously ...
Capitalism, Institutions, and Economic Development
1st Edition
By Michael G. Heller
August 15, 2011
Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Weber, Schumpeter, Hayek, Popper, and Parsons, this book reconceptualizes actually-existing capitalism. It proposes capitalism as an impersonal procedural solution to the problems of spontaneously coordinating public institutions that ...