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.
The Political Economy of Global Sporting Organisations
1st Edition
By John Forster, Nigel Pope
November 12, 2007
At the global level, sport is ruled by a set of organizations including giants such as the IOC (Olympics), FIFA (soccer), and the IAAF (athletics) as well as sporting minnows such as the World Armsport Federation (armwrestling). Many of these bodies have been surrounded by controversy during ...
Culture and Politics in Economic Development
1st Edition
By Volker Bornschier
November 09, 2007
In this important book, pre-eminent economic sociologist Volker Bornschier analyzes growth and development in the Old and New Worlds - the so-called 'developed' countries. He shows how sociological and political factors have a massive impact on economic change in those countries. The book is&...
Neoliberalism: National and Regional Experiments with Global Ideas
1st Edition
Edited
By Ravi K. Roy, Arthur T. Denzau, Thomas D. Willett
November 05, 2007
Critics of globalization often portray neoliberalism as an extremist laissez-faire political-economic philosophy that rejects government any sort of government intervention in the domestic economy. Like most over-used terms, it is more complicated than this introductory sentence suggests. This ...
Explorations in Economic Methodology: From Lakatos to Empirical Philosophy of Science
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger E. Backhouse
September 17, 2007
Roger Backhouse is a key figure in the field of economic methodology. Explorations in Economic Methodology both clarifies and responds to the issues raised by the literature and argues that methodology is an essential activity. Offering a constructive, but critical, response to the recent ...
The Value of Marx: Political Economy for Contemporary Capitalism
1st Edition
By Alfredo Saad Filho
September 17, 2007
Karl Marx's writings provide a uniquely insightful explanation of the inner workings of capitalism, which other schools of thought generally have difficulty explaining. From this vantage point, Marx's works can help to explain important features and economic problems of our age, and the limits of ...
Macroeconomic Foundations of Macroeconomics
1st Edition
By Alvaro Cencini
August 17, 2007
Contrary to common belief, macroeconomics is not merely a theory of aggregates, and cannot be constructed from individual behaviour. Both nationally and internationally, there are economic laws that are logically independent of economic agents’ behaviour. These are the macroeconomic foundations of ...
Capitalism
1st Edition
By Victor D. Lippit
January 19, 2007
This imaginative and ambitious book rethinks the nature of capitalism. Lippit, a leading heterodox economist in the USA, here delivers a comparative study of different forms of capitalism. He first critically examines the three main capitalist prototypes: * the Anglo-American, market-driven ...
Reduction, Rationality and Game Theory in Marxian Economics
1st Edition
By Bruce Philp
January 07, 2005
This book examines the main areas of interest in Marxian economics, paying particular attention to class conflict, analytical Marxism and game theory. Very few books can claim to cover the areas that this book does with such clarity, academic rigour and originality. Its study of game theory and ...
The New Institutional Economics of Corruption
1st Edition
By Johann Graf Lambsdorff, Markus Taube, Matthias Schramm
November 04, 2004
This book constitutes a thorough analysis of the phenomenon of corruption, as seen from the perspective of New Institutional Economics - one of the most influential new schools of thought in the social sciences of the past decade....
Involuntary Unemployment
1st Edition
By Michel de Vroey
August 25, 2004
The Great Depression of the 1930s with its dramatic unemployment rates was one of the most striking economic events of the past century. It shook economists' beliefs in the existence of self-adjusting forces and prompted Keynes to write his masterwork, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and...
Global Political Economy and the Wealth of Nations: Performance, Institutions, Problems and Policies
1st Edition
By Phillip O'Hara
May 10, 2004
This comprehensive collection documents the major processes, performance, institutions, problems and policies associated with global political economy. For the first time in a single volume, the authors present a detailed analysis of the changing distribution and production of wealth throughout the...
Affirmative Action in the United States and India: A Comparative Perspective
1st Edition
By Thomas E Weisskopf
March 12, 2004
Arguably, two of the most important national experiences with policies of positive discrimination in favor of historically disadvantaged ethnic or caste minority groups are the cases of 'Affirmative Action' in the United States and 'Reservation Policies' in India. This essential new book examines ...