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.
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 ...
Wellbeing, Nature, and Moral Values in Economics: How Modern Economic Analysis Faces the Challenges Ahead
1st Edition
By Heinz Welsch
October 07, 2024
Drawing on more modern expressions of economic analysis, this book explores the interplay between wellbeing, nature and moral values in economics. In standard accounts of economics, these three themes are typically treated in isolation from each other, or else overlooked entirely. This book ...
Economic Growth and Inequality: The Economists' Dilemma
1st Edition
By Laurent Dobuzinskis
October 04, 2024
In an era of increasing inequalities, and also of deep anxieties about the consequences of two major economic crises, economists are faced with a major question: can economic growth be achieved without inequalities? Economic Growth and Inequality critically evaluates the economic literature on this...
Economics for Humanity: Integrating Well-being, Community, and Practical Philosophy
1st Edition
By Mitsuaki Okabe
August 26, 2024
Economics is often referred to as “the queen of social sciences.” This is because mainstream economics has been established as an elegant academic discipline by assuming mankind simply to be homo economicus— an image of human beings showing interest in only material fulfilment and acting solely in ...
The Political Economy of Mediterranean Europe: A Growth Models Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Luis Cárdenas del Rey, Javier de Arribas Cámara
August 19, 2024
Applying the demand-led growth models framework, this book examines the recent macroeconomic performance of the key Mediterranean economies – Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece – including the responses to the economic and financial crisis (2008), the debt crisis (2010) and the COVID-19 crisis (2020...
Globalization and the Decline of American Power: The Political Economy of the American Fall
1st Edition
By Cyrus Bina
August 05, 2024
This book explores America’s decline as a global power, arguing that the implosion of Pax Americana was initiated by the process of globalization, preceding the collapse of the Soviet Union by nearly a decade. The era of Pax Americana, and with it American hegemony, is conclusively passed, and will...
Macroeconomic Modelling, Economic Policy and Methodology: Economics at the Edge
1st Edition
Edited
By Mikael Randrup Byrialsen, Hamid Raza, Finn Olesen
August 05, 2024
Demonstrating that there are (superior) alternatives to the modern macroeconomic mainstream and its DSGE (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) models, this book presents the cutting edge in macroeconomic modelling, economic policy, and methodology from the perspective of heterodox economic ...
Inequality and Stagnation: A Monetary Interpretation
1st Edition
By Santiago Capraro, Carlo Panico, Luis Torres-González
August 02, 2024
The book examines how the outgrowth of the financial industry has contributed to the recent tendencies towards inequality and stagnation. It proposes a monetary interpretation of these events using a Classical–Keynesian theoretical approach derived from the work of Keynes and Sraffa. The approach ...