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.
New Institutional Economics as Situational Logic: A Phenomenological Perspective
1st Edition
By Piet de Vries
December 18, 2024
Drawing on phenomenological and realist approaches, this book surveys the theoretical evolution of new institutional economics. For all its popularity and explanatory power, new institutional economics is not a homogenous field but encompasses a range of different theoretical approaches starting ...
The Knowledge Problems of European Financial Market Integration: Paradoxes of the Market
1st Edition
By Troels Krarup
December 18, 2024
Since the creation of the euro and a European Central Bank, the European Union has persistently pursued financial market integration throughout periods of economic growth, membership enlargements, financial breakdown, and political crisis. While traditionally analysed in terms of clashing ...
The Scottish Economy and Nationalism: Constructing Scotland’s Imagined Economy
1st Edition
By James Foley
December 18, 2024
Scotland’s economic capacity to prosper independently of Britain has become a key political issue, dominating the independence referendum of 2014 and continuing to influence British politics since. But, as this book shows, the Scottish economy is not merely a statistical object – it is also a ...
The Political Economy and Ethics of Debt Financing: The Brutality of the Charging of Interest on Loans
1st Edition
By Patrick O'Sullivan, Paolo Ricci
December 04, 2024
This book takes a fresh look at an age-old controversy in ethics and political economy that stretches right back to Aristotle: the morality and the economics of debt financing, or the charging of interest on loans. It endeavours to show the immense relevance of those ancient debates in the ...
Beyond Ecological Economics and Development: Critical Reflections on the Thought of Manfred Max-Neef
1st Edition
Edited
By Luis Valenzuela, María del Valle Barrera
November 29, 2024
The interrelationship among development, environment, and human needs is one of the key issues being faced by the world today. The Chilean economist, Manfred Max-Neef, was a leading thinker on this dynamic, and this book provides both an introduction to and analysis of his work and ideas. Arranged ...
Marxist Political Economy and Bourdieu: Economic and Cultural Capital, Classes and State
1st Edition
By George Economakis, Theofanis Papageorgiou
November 28, 2024
This book systematically addresses Bourdieu’s key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought. In this book, Bourdieu’s central theoretical points are analyzed within a political, sociological and politico-economic framework which allows for the development of a sequential narrative of his...
Post-Keynesian Theories of the Firm: Kalecki and Radical Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Nobantu L. Mbeki
November 28, 2024
Within Post-Keynesian economics there is a spectrum of approaches to theories of the firm but what they have in common, to their great benefit, is a proper integration of the concept of radical uncertainty: data that cannot be known. This book revisits Kalecki’s theory of the firm is located to ...
Sustainable Economic Development: Perspectives from Political Economy and Economics Pluralism
1st Edition
Edited
By Giorgos Meramveliotakis, Manolis Manioudis
November 14, 2024
Drawing on political economy and economic pluralism, this book explores issues in sustainable economic development from a macro perspective. In contrast to the vast majority of studies on contemporary development problems, which are focused on micro-level theory, method, and policy, this volume ...
The Myth of the Global Market: A Marxist Critique of Neoliberalism
1st Edition
By Giulio Palermo
November 06, 2024
Capitalism is often held to be the best of all possible worlds, or even the only possible world, in which the market is underpinned by the highest principles of rationality, efficiency, and compatibility with democracy. These truths are backed up by economists, a group who present themselves as ...
Corporate Financialization: An Economic Sociology Perspective
1st Edition
By Marcelo José do Carmo, Mário Sacomano Neto, Julio Cesar Donadone
October 09, 2024
The economic process of financialization is defined by many as the development of the dependence and subordination of the productive sector to the financial sector. Leading to an emphasis on maximizing shareholder value above all else, the financialization of the economy and production has an ...
Critical Theory and Economics: Philosophical Notes on Contemporary Inequality
1st Edition
By Robin Maialeh
October 08, 2024
This book expands upon a range of economic insights within the overall context of critical theory, particularly with respect to the question of socioeconomic inequalities, and presents an explanation of how critical theory provides a number of interesting perspectives for economists. Economic ...
Innovation, Complexity and Economic Evolution: From Theory to Policy
1st Edition
By Pier Paolo Saviotti
October 07, 2024
If evolutionary economics is to compete with neoclassical economics as a general-purpose economic theory, it needs to incorporate new aspects of socioeconomic reality, such as institutions of all types, including technical, scientific, and political. Furthermore, evolutionary economics needs to be ...