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.
Beyond Mainstream Explanations of the Financial Crisis: Parasitic Finance Capital
1st Edition
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
June 08, 2015
This book provides a critique of the neoclassical explanations of the 2008 financial collapse, of the ensuing long recession and of the neoliberal austerity responses to it. The study argues that while the prevailing views of deregulation and financialization as instrumental culprits in the ...
Economic Indeterminacy: A personal encounter with the economists' peculiar nemesis
1st Edition
By Yanis Varoufakis
June 08, 2015
This volume is a collection of some of the best and most influential work of Yanis Varoufakis. The chapters all address the issue of economic indeterminacy, and the place of a socialized Homo Economicus within the economy. The book addresses Varoufakis’ key interpretation regarding the way in which...
Power in Business and the State: An Historical Analysis of its Concentration
1st Edition
By Frank Bealey
June 08, 2015
It is commonplace that political power is becoming more centralized and remote: faceless people, sometimes in unknown places, determine our circumstances and our opportunities. This ground breaking book argues that this happened through a slow development which began before globalization.Power in ...
Social Economy: The Logic of Capitalist Development
1st Edition
By Clark Everling
June 08, 2015
Contrary to much Marxist thought, Everling does not view socialism as an antithesis to capitalism, and argues that socialism is, among other things, an objective development of capitalism. As capitalism develops it creates the premises for social development which are also the bases for a socialist...
Subjectivism and Economic Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Roger Koppl, Gary Mongiovi
June 08, 2015
Subjectivism plays a fundamental role in many of the leading alternative schools in economics. This work explores major methodological issues in the area of radical subjectivism and includes contributions from Jorg Bibow, Peter Boettke, Maurizio Caserta, Steven Horwitz, Brian J. Loasby, Steven ...
A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and its Crisis: Demystifying Finance
1st Edition
By Dimitris Sotiropoulos, John Milios, Spyros Lapatsioras
May 21, 2015
The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism, and explores the ways in which it has changed the organization...
Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 2: Integrated Approaches
1st Edition
By Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Willi Semmler
May 21, 2015
This book represents the second of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction. In this ...
Social Foundations of Markets, Money and Credit
1st Edition
By Costas Lapavitsas
May 21, 2015
Where does the power of money come from? Why is trust so important in financial operations? How does the swapping of gifts differ from the exchange of commodities? Where does self-interest stop and communal solidarity start in capitalist economies?These issues and many more are discussed in a ...
Urban and Regional Development Trajectories in Contemporary Capitalism
1st Edition
By Flavia Martinelli, Frank Moulaert, Andreas Novy
May 21, 2015
This book re-evaluates a rich scientific heritage of space- and history-sensitive development theories and produces an integrated methodology for the comparative analysis of urban and regional trajectories within a globalized world. The main argument put forward is that current mainstream analyses ...
Editing Economics: Essays in Honour of Mark Perlman
1st Edition
Edited
By Professor Geoffrey Harcourt, Hank Lim, Ungsuh K. Park
May 07, 2015
Mark Perlman was the founding editor of the Journal of Economic Literature and responsible for issues from 1969 until 1980 when he retired. He has also written and edited a number of books and articles, concentrating on aspects of the labour market, population growth, health economics, the ...
Evolution, Order and Complexity
1st Edition
By Kenneth Boulding, Elias Khalil
May 07, 2015
Evolution, Order and Complexity reflects topical interest in the relationship between the social and natural worlds. It represents the cutting edge of current thinking which challenges the natural/social dichotomy thesis by showing how the application of ideas which derive from biology can be ...
Political Economy and the New Capitalism: Essays in Honour of Sam Aaronovitch
1st Edition
Edited
By Jan Toporowski
May 07, 2015
Political Economy and the New Capitalism examines the relevance of Sam Aaronovitch's pioneering empirical studies of British capitalism in the light of modern developments. A wide range of problems are reviewed from industrial concentration today to the co-ordination of economic policies in Europe....