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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...