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.
Facts, Values and Objectivity in Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By José Castro Caldas, Vítor Neves
November 10, 2016
Is Economics an ‘objective’ or ‘positive’ science, independent of ethical and political positions? The financial crisis that began in 2007 gave rise to renewed doubts regarding the ‘objectivity’ of economics and brought into the public arena a debate that was previously confined to academia. A ...
Financial Cultures and Crisis Dynamics
1st Edition
Edited
By Bob Jessop, Brigitte Young, Christoph Scherrer
November 10, 2016
The recent financial crisis exposed both a naïve faith in mathematical models to manage risk and a crude culture of greed that embraces risk. This book explores cultures of finance in sites such as corporate governance, hedge funds, central banks, the City of London and Wall Street, and small and ...
Greek Capitalism in Crisis: Marxist Analyses
1st Edition
Edited
By Stavros Mavroudeas
November 10, 2016
Despite the depth of the Greek crisis, the exorbitant burdens placed upon the working people and the massive popular resistance movement to capitalist policies, there is a definite lack of consistently Marxist analyses of the Greek problem. International debates regarding the Greek crisis have been...
The European Union and Supranational Political Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Riccardo Fiorentini, Guido Montani
November 10, 2016
The financial crisis – originated in 2008 in the United States – had a dramatic impact on the world economy. The European Union was immediately involved, but its reaction to the crisis was clearly inadequate. The misgovernment of the European economy not only put at risk the European Monetary Union...
The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity
1st Edition
Edited
By Richard Westra, Dennis Badeen, Robert Albritton
November 10, 2016
The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity contains thirteen world leading political economists writing from within eight different countries who critically analyze the current crisis tendencies of capitalism both globally and in ...
Freedom, Responsibility and Economics of the Person
1st Edition
By Jérôme Ballet, Damien Bazin, Jean-Luc Dubois, François-Régis Mahieu
November 07, 2016
The capability approach has developed significantly since Amartya Sen was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998. It is now recognised as being highly beneficial in the analysis of poverty and inequality, but also in the redefinition of policies aimed at improving the well-being of ...
Institutions and Development After the Financial Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Sebastiano Fadda, Pasquale Tridico
November 07, 2016
The financial crash of 2007-2008 and the subsequent global economic crisis have raised questions about the viability of capitalism and the desirability of alternative types of economic system. In this context, Keynesian and Marxist ideas in particular have become more popular. These two approaches,...
Economic Complexity and Equilibrium Illusion: Essays on market instability and macro vitality
1st Edition
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By Ping Chen
September 29, 2016
The Principle of Large Numbers indicates that macro fluctuations have weak microfoundations; persistent business cycles and interrupted technologies can be better characterized by macro vitality and meso foundations. Economic growth is limited by market extent and ecological constraints. The ...
Against Utility-Based Economics: On a Life-Based Approach
1st Edition
By Anastasios Korkotsides
June 17, 2016
Utility-based theory and the fallback choice-theoretic framework are shown to be biased, irremediably flawed and misleading. A radically different theory of value and of consumer behaviour is proposed based on existential interpretations of scarcity, value and self-interest. For self-conscious ...
Architectures of Economic Subjectivity: The Philosophical Foundations of the Subject in the History of Economic Thought
1st Edition
By Sonya Scott
June 17, 2016
The history of European economic thought has long been written by those seeking to prove or disprove the truth-value of the theories they describe. This work takes a different approach. It explores the philosophical groundwork of the theoretical structure within which economic subjects are ...
The Political Economy and Media Coverage of the European Economic Crisis: The case of Ireland
1st Edition
By Julien Mercille
June 17, 2016
The European economic crisis has been ongoing since 2008 and while austerity has spread over the continent, it has failed to revive economies. The media have played an important ideological role in presenting the policies of economic and political elites in a favourable light, even if the latter’s ...
Gender Perspectives and Gender Impacts of the Global Economic Crisis
1st Edition
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By Rania Antonopoulos
May 06, 2016
With the full effects of the Great Recession still unfolding, this collection of essays analyses the gendered economic impacts of the crisis. The volume, from an international set of contributors, argues that gender-differentiated economic roles and responsibilities within households and markets ...