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, 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 ...
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 ...
Unequal Development and Capitalism: Catching Up and Falling Behind in the Global Economy
1st Edition
By Adalmir Antonio Marquetti, Alessandro Miebach, Henrique Morrone
June 03, 2024
Unequal development has been a defining characteristic of capitalism. Throughout history, countries and regions have exhibited differences in labor productivity growth – a key determinant in poverty reduction and development – and although some nations may catch up with the productivity levels or ...
Behavioral Political Economy and Democratic Theory: Fortifying Democracy for the Digital Age
1st Edition
By Petr Špecián
January 29, 2024
Drawing on current debates at the frontiers of economics, psychology, and political philosophy, this book explores the challenges that arise for liberal democracies from a confrontation between modern technologies and the bounds of human rationality. With the ongoing transition of democracy’s ...
Corporations, Accounting, Securities Laws, and the Extinction of Capitalism
1st Edition
By Wm. Dennis Huber
January 29, 2024
Ever since Marx, the future of capitalism has been fiercely debated. Marx and his followers predicted capitalism will end by violent overthrow, while others prophesied its demise will be the result of collapsing under its own weight. Still others argue that capitalism will not only continue to ...
Economics, Social Science and Pluralism: A Real-World Approach
1st Edition
By Victor A. Beker
January 29, 2024
In the work of most classical economists – including Smith and Keynes – theory was often embedded in application. But from the second half of the last century on, mainstream economics styled itself as "pure" economics, where the theory is presented in a very abstract form detached from any ...
Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State: Theoretical Considerations
1st Edition
By Raju J Das
January 29, 2024
Marx’s Capital, Capitalism and Limits to the State examines the capitalist state in the abstract, and as it exists in advanced capitalism and peripheral capitalism, illustrating the ideas with evidence from the North and the South. The volume unpacks the capitalist state’s functions in relation to ...
Moral Discourse in the History of Economic Thought
1st Edition
By Laurent Dobuzinskis
January 29, 2024
Providing an account of the development of economic thought, this book explores the extent to which economic ideas are rooted in moral values. Adopting an approach rooted in ‘pragmatism’, the work explores key questions which have been considered by economists since the classical political ...