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.
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, Javier Arribas
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 ...
The Political Economy of Post-Capitalism: Financialization, Globalization and Neofeudalism
1st Edition
By Richard Westra
August 02, 2024
Westra explores a nuanced literature on post-capitalism which claims that instead of constituting the end of history or ending in its supplanting by socialism, capitalism has transmuted into something else. Foci of this literature ranges from questions of financial system and technological change ...
Bernard Schmitt’s Quantum Macroeconomic Analysis
1st Edition
By Alvaro Cencini
July 29, 2024
The aim of Bernard Schmitt’s analysis of the monetary economy of production was twofold: to introduce and to explain the logical character of the macroeconomic laws governing our economies and to explain the origin of the pathologies that follow if these laws are not complied with. Schmitt’s main ...
Blockchain and the Commons
1st Edition
By Vangelis Papadimitropoulos
July 29, 2024
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in ‘the commons’ based on a simple yet radical idea: great improvements in production and management could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and power-sharing. Ranging from meadows, forests and parks to language, open-source software (...
Capitalism and Agrarian Change: Class, Production and Reproduction in Indonesia
1st Edition
By Muchtar Habibi
July 29, 2024
Small-scale agricultural producers in the peripheral world are often condescendingly assumed to be a single social class (‘the peasantry’) to be pitted against the state or corporation. This book challenges this rather idealistic view by demonstrating that under current capitalist social relations ...
Capitalist Agriculture and the Global Bee Crisis
1st Edition
By Rebecca Ellis
July 29, 2024
Capitalist agriculture relies heavily on the pollination work of bees, but this system harms bees in innumerable ways. Indeed, human agriculture is one of the main culprits for the declining populations of wild bees and the declining health of honeybees. This book presents a political ecology of ...
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 ...