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.
China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains: Dynamics of a Zero Trust World
1st Edition
By Warwick Powell
July 29, 2024
China, Trust and Digital Supply Chains presents a critical reflection on blockchain technologies in the context of their adoption in China and the world that China is engaged in and shaping. Approaching the issues of blockchain technology adoption and development on China’s own terms is critical if...
Economics and Art Theory
1st Edition
Edited
By Stratos Myrogiannis, Constantinos Repapis
July 29, 2024
Drawing on an interdisciplinary panel of contributors, this book presents a stimulating dialogue between economics and art theory and considers how this might aid our understanding of both areas of research. The collection explores themes which both fields share, including rationality, abstraction ...
Economics, Anthropology and the Origin of Money as a Bargaining Counter
1st Edition
By Patrick Spread
July 29, 2024
For many decades economists have disputed with economic anthropologists over the origins of money. Economists claim that money emerged from barter exchange; anthropologists claim that it originated as a ‘unit of account’ in the temples and palaces of ancient Mesopotamia. This book argues that money...
Marx and Le Capital: Evaluation, History, Reception
1st Edition
Edited
By Marcello Musto
July 29, 2024
Over the past few years, Marx’s Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention. This volume is dedicated to the history of the making, the theoretical evaluation, and the analysis of the dissemination and reception of an almost unknown version of Capital: the French translation, ...
Modern Money and the Rise and Fall of Capitalist Finance: The Institutionalization of Trusts, Personae and Indebtedness
1st Edition
By Jongchul Kim
July 29, 2024
Modern Money and the Rise and Fall of Capitalist Finance examines the true nature of modern money and seeks ideas for an alternative economic system for a just society. This book suggests that adopting the ideas and institutions of a trust allowed personae to be combined with creditor-debtor ...
Why are Presidential Regimes Bad for the Economy?: Understanding the Link Between Forms of Government and Economic Outcomes
1st Edition
By Richard McManus, Gulcin Ozkan
July 29, 2024
Recent evidence suggests that macroeconomic outcomes are inferior in countries operating under presidential regimes compared with those with parliaments, with lower levels of economic growth, higher rates of inflation, and higher levels of income inequality in countries with presidential ...
Economics as Rhetoric: The Thought of Bernard Maris
1st Edition
By Anne Isla
July 26, 2024
Bernard Maris was killed in Paris on January 7, 2015, during the terrorist attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. He remains one of the most original intellectuals of contemporary France, but despite being a uniquely original heterodox thinker, his international reputation has been ...
Inequality: Economic and Social Issues
1st Edition
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By Mats Lundahl, Daniel Rauhut, Neelambar Hatti
July 18, 2024
Inequalities of opportunity affect a person’s life expectancy and access to basic services and human rights through discrimination, abuse, and lack of access to justice. High levels of inequality of opportunity discourage skill accumulation, choke economic and social mobility, and, consequently, ...
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms
1st Edition
By Giampaolo Conte
July 12, 2024
A History of Capitalist Transformation: A Critique of Liberal-Capitalist Reforms highlights how, since the recent financial crises, the expression ‘liberal reform’ has entered common parlance as an evocative image of austerity and economic malaise, especially for the working classes and a segment ...
Macroeconomics After the General Theory: Fundamental Uncertainty, Animal Spirits and Shifting Equilibrium in a Competitive Economy
1st Edition
By Angel Asensio
July 08, 2024
Both Keynes’s General Theory and orthodox economics seek to understand how competitive markets work, but they diverge sharply with respect to the nature and properties of the competitive equilibrium. The reason, as Keynes himself pointed out, is that the General Theory recognises that the future ...
Economic Growth and Long Cycles: A Classical Political Economy Approach
1st Edition
By Nikolaos Chatzarakis, Persefoni Tsaliki, Lefteris Tsoulfidis
June 03, 2024
Contemporary capitalism is characterized by periods of vigorous economic growth and periods of slow or even negative growth. This book draws on the classical political economy approach to consider both economic cycles and economic growth and draw conclusions about the inherent instability of the ...
Income Redistribution, Inequality and Democracy: A Political Economy Approach
1st Edition
By Hwan Joo Seo, Sung Jin Kang
June 03, 2024
This book examines why democracy has failed to deliver effective solutions to income inequality problems over the last four decades, and if democracy can offer solutions to various increases in inequality in the future. It also addresses what elements are necessary for democracy to serve as an ...