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.
Capital, Entrepreneurship and Management: A New Austrian Theory of Organizations
1st Edition
By Thierry Aimar
January 31, 2025
Economic and organizational literature has long separated the figure of the capitalist and the manager, but it often continues to assimilate that of the capitalist and the entrepreneur around the notion of risk-bearing. Yet confusion between the two prevents any understanding of the essence of ...
Declining Profitability and the Evolution of the US Economy: A Classical Perspective
1st Edition
By Ascension Mejorado, Manuel Roman
January 30, 2025
The 1970s were a pivotal decade for the US economy: deindustrialization broke the power of the labor unions and made possible the redistribution of income in favor of corporate profits; globalization and offshore investments opened alternatives to domestic nonfinancial capital accumulation; ...
Socialist Economic Systems: 21st Century Pathways
1st Edition
By Steven Rosefielde
January 30, 2025
Bernie Sanders’ socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China’s economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse about improved strategies for building superior socialist futures. Socialist Economic Systems provides an objective record of socialism’s promises and ...
Economic Populism and Institutional Reform
1st Edition
By Emre Ünal
December 31, 2024
In response to the global crises in recent decades, many countries – both developed and developing economies – have resorted to populist forms of economic policy instead of undertaking meaningful institutional change. This book explores two forms of economic populism in particular (wage ...
Government and Economic Growth in the 21st Century: A Classical Liberal Response
1st Edition
Edited
By Juan E. Castañeda
December 26, 2024
This book offers an alternative view of the economy – and indeed, society – that does not rely on an ever-expanding government to address the problems which individuals typically face during their lives. The book is a Classical Liberal response to the way leading economies have been (mis)managed in...
How Economists Think: A Kantian Interpretation of Mainstream Economics
1st Edition
By Steven Buccola
December 23, 2024
Many philosophers today take the empiricist or rationalist stance that mainstream economics is self-centered and naïve. For their part too, most economists don’t know much formal philosophy. The purpose of the present book is to help bridge this great divide between philosopher and economist....
Political Economy in the Middle East and North Africa: Why Institutions, Rents, and Power Matter in Economic Reforms
1st Edition
By Rachid Mira
December 20, 2024
Many countries in the Middle East and North Africa continue to face major economic and political challenges, including volatile economic growth, low economic diversification, high unemployment levels, and, in some cases, pervasive authoritarian regimes. These economic and political challenges are ...
The Meaning of Shared Value: New Perspective on Creating Shared Value
1st Edition
By Paolo Ricci, Patrick O'Sullivan, Floriana Fusco
December 19, 2024
The concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) – creating 'economic' value in a way that also creates value for the whole of society – has risen in prominence as a corporate policy and a strategy in recent years, mainly for third sector or development organisations. However, while it has received ...
The Political Economy of Corruption
1st Edition
Edited
By Chandan Kumar Jha, Ajit Mishra, Sudipta Sarangi
December 19, 2024
Corruption, commonly defined as the misuse of public office for private gains, is multifaceted, multidimensional and ubiquitous. This edited collection, featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field of corruption, goes beyond the standard enforcement framework wherein individuals only ...
COVID-19 and Economic Development in Latin America: Theoretical Debates, Financing Dilemmas and Post-Pandemic Scenarios
1st Edition
Edited
By Monika Meireles, Bruno De Conti, Diego Guevara
December 18, 2024
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy, just as with the Great Recession a decade earlier, has served to reinforce the fact that the world is hierarchically organized and the distribution of power between countries is distinctly asymmetric. Gathering multiple viewpoints of Latin ...
Human Economics: Paradigms, Systems, and Dynamics
1st Edition
By Sara Casagrande
December 18, 2024
The term “human economics” is sometimes used within economic theory with the hope of repositioning economic discipline as a human and social science, but with scarce success. Indeed, although great economists have always carefully considered human nature, it has been largely neglected in ...
New Economic Statecraft: China, the United States and the European Union
1st Edition
By Zhang Xiaotong
December 18, 2024
This book provides insights on the art of governing a state and managing its external relations from a wealth-power logic. It looks at "economic statecraft", which consists of wealth production, wealth mobilization, and wealth-power conversion by a state. This book reconceptualizes what economic ...