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.
Economic Representations: Academic and Everyday
1st Edition
Edited
By David F Ruccio
December 17, 2009
Why is there such a proliferation of economic discourses in literary theory, cultural studies, anti-sweatshop debates, popular music, and other areas outside the official discipline of economics? How is the economy represented in different ways by economists and non-economists? In this volume, ...
Marxian Reproduction Schema: Money and Aggregate Demand in a Capitalist Economy
1st Edition
By Andrew Trigg
December 17, 2009
In 1878 Karl Marx developed the reproduction schema: his model of how total capital is produced and reproduced. This is thought to be the first two-sector economic model ever constructed. Two key aspects of Marx’s writings are widely agreed to be undeveloped: The role of aggregate demand and the ...
Culture and Economic Explanation: Economics in the US and Japan
1st Edition
By Donald W. Katzner
November 24, 2009
There is a common view among many economists that one model is capable of explaining a specific type of behaviour in all cultural environments. It is only necessary to make appropriate adjustments to bring the model in line with prevailing cultural conditions. This book argues that such an approach...
Economic Policy and Performance in Industrial Democracies: Party Governments, Central Banks and the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix
1st Edition
By Takayuki Sakamoto
November 24, 2009
This book is the first systematic study of how the interdependence of fiscal and monetary policies and the interaction of party governments and central banks affect the fiscal-policy mix in eighteen industrial democracies in North America, Western Europe, Japan and Oceania. Sakamoto argues that ...
Economics of American Judaism
1st Edition
By Carmel Chiswick
November 24, 2009
This book collects in one readily-accessible volume the pioneering research of Carmel U. Chiswick on the Economics of American Judaism. Filling a major gap in the social-scientific literature, Chiswick’s economic perspective complements that of other social scientists and historians. She ...
The Keynesian Multiplier
1st Edition
Edited
By Claude Gnos, Louis-Philippe Rochon
November 24, 2009
The multiplier is a central concept in Keynesian and post-Keynesian economics. It is largely what justifies activist full-employment fiscal policy: an increase in fiscal expenditures contributing to multiple rounds of spending, thereby financing itself. Yet, while a copingstone of ...
Feminism, Economics and Utopia: Time Travelling through Paradigms
1st Edition
By Karin Schonpflug
November 23, 2009
Are there feminist, economic utopian visions amongst feminist economists? What are these visions? Is there a common vision for feminist economics or should there be? Can feminist economics be effective without a utopian vision? Comprehensive and original, this book surveys the entire field of ...
Human Ecology Economics: A New Framework for Global Sustainability
1st Edition
Edited
By Roy E. Allen
November 23, 2009
This book presents ‘human ecology economics’ as a new and more comprehensive interdisciplinary framework for understanding ‘world conditions and human systems’. This book helps economists rethink the boundaries and methods of their discipline - so that they can participate more fully in debates ...
Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring means to ends in a democratic Labor Movement
1st Edition
By Gerald Friedman
November 23, 2009
A century of union growth ended in the 1980s. Since then, declining union membership has undermined the Labor Movement’s achievements throughout the advanced capitalist world. As unions have lost membership, declining economic clout and political leverage has left them as weak props upholding wages...
Growth and Development in the Global Political Economy: Modes of Regulation and Social Structures of Accumulation
1st Edition
By Phillip O'Hara
October 13, 2009
Recent institutional changes have seen the increasing dominance of globalization and neoliberalism in the world economy. As markets have been deregulated, privatization and unproductive government spending have been promoted. Yet the greater volatility of capitals, the emergence of many financial ...
Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics: Essays in Honour of Ingrid Rima
1st Edition
Edited
By Mathew Forstater, Gary Mongiovi, Steven Pressman
September 17, 2009
Edited by three very well known academics in the field and contributed to by John Smithin, Laurence Moss and G. C. Harcourt, this volume reflects the breath of the honouree’s interests and as such it covers a wide range of topics including political economy, labour economics, history of economic ...
The Future of Social Security Policy: Women, Work and A Citizens Basic Income
1st Edition
By Ailsa McKay
September 17, 2009
Current debates concerning the future of social security provision in advanced capitalist states have raised the issue of a citizen’s basic income (CBI) as a possible reform package: a proposal based on the principles of individuality, universality and unconditionality which would ensure a minimum ...