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.
Political Economy and Globalization
1st Edition
By Richard Westra
August 15, 2011
Based upon distinguishing capitalism from other economic systems, as well as analysis of capitalist change across its stages of development, Richard Westra argues that the economic tendencies we refer to as globalization constitute a world historic transition away from capitalism. Westra forcefully...
Sublime Economy: On the intersection of art and economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Jack Amariglio, Joseph W. Childers, Stephen E. Cullenberg
August 11, 2010
Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "the economy" as sublime. It might even be said that much of the emergence of a distinctly "modern" art in the West is inextricably linked to the perception of art’s ...
The 'Uncertain' Foundations of Post Keynesian Economics: Essays in Exploration
1st Edition
By Stephen Dunn
August 11, 2010
This important new book introduces, analyzes and takes forward a post-Keynesian theory of the firm. It makes a vital contribution to the conceptualisation of uncertainty that is consistent with the methodological presuppositions of Post Keynesian economics. The author attempts to make a positive ...
Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy
1st Edition
Edited
By Thomas Boylan, Ruvin Gekker
July 06, 2010
Following Amartya Sen’s insistence to expand the framework of rational choice theory by taking into account ‘non-utility information,’ economists, political scientists and philosophers have recently concentrated their efforts in analysing the issues related to rights, freedom, diversity intentions ...
Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounters with Identity/Difference
1st Edition
By Nitasha Kaul
July 06, 2010
It is possible to be ‘irrational’ without being ‘uneconomic’? What is the link between ‘Value’ and ‘values’? What do economists do when they ‘explain’? We live in times when the economic logic has become unquestionable and all-powerful so that our quotidian economic experiences are defined by their...
Karl Marx’s Grundrisse: Foundations of the critique of political economy 150 years later
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcello Musto
July 06, 2010
Written between 1857 and 1858, the Grundrisse is the first draft of Marx’s critique of political economy and, thus, also the initial preparatory work on Capital. Despite its editorial vicissitudes and late publication, Grundrisse contains numerous reflections on matters that Marx did not develop ...
Money, Enterprise and Income Distribution: Towards a macroeconomic theory of capitalism
1st Edition
By John Smithin
July 06, 2010
Mainstream neoclassical economics tells us that money is essentially a commodity, has no other social meanings or consequences, and (therefore) exists only as a medium of exchange to lubricate/facilitate barter. This book takes the view that money is definitively a social relation between ...
The Political Economy of Work
1st Edition
By David Spencer
May 19, 2010
Against the background of increasing interest in the changing nature and quality of work, The Political Economy of Work offers a new and unique assessment of the theoretical analysis of work. The author challenges some common preconceptions about work and promotes an original approach to the field,...
Computable, Constructive and Behavioural Economic Dynamics: Essays in Honour of Kumaraswamy (Vela) Velupillai
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefano Zambelli
March 23, 2010
The book contains thirty original articles dealing with important aspects of theoretical as well as applied economic theory. While the principal focus is on: the computational and algorithmic nature of economic dynamics; individual as well as collective decision process and rational behavior, some ...
Critical Political Economy: Complexity, Rationality, and the Logic of Post-Orthodox Pluralism
1st Edition
By Christian Arnsperger
February 22, 2010
This book asks how a more liberating economics could be constructed and taught. It suggests that if economists today are serious about emancipation and empowerment, they will have to radically change their conception about what it means for a citizen to act rationally in a complex society. ...
The Spatial Model of Politics
1st Edition
By Norman Schofield
December 24, 2009
Using unique and cutting-edge research, Schofield a prominent author in the US for a number of years, explores the growth area of positive political economy within economics and politics. The first book to explain the spatial model of voting from a mathematical, economics and game-theory ...
Advances on Income Inequality and Concentration Measures
1st Edition
Edited
By Gianni Betti, Achille Lemmi
December 17, 2009
This impressive collection from some of today’s leading distributional analysts provides an overview a wide range of economic, statistical and sociological relationships that have been opened up for scientific study by the work of two turn-of-the-20th-century economists: C. Gini and M. O....