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.
Economic Pluralism
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Garnett Jr., Erik Olsen, Martha Starr
November 08, 2013
The leading edges of economic thinking in the early 21st century are marked by a nascent pluralism - a positive valuing of difference and complexity - regarding the nature and evolution of human behaviour and economic organization. Economic Pluralism brings these pluralist sensibilities to the fore...
Equilibrium, Welfare and Uncertainty: Beyond Arrow-Debreu
1st Edition
By Mukul Majumdar
November 08, 2013
One of the fundamental themes in economic theory is the study of the role of prices in achieving an optimal allocation of resources in a competitive, decentralized economy. The book begins with a review of the basic results on the rigorous elaboration of the Walras-Pareto theory (following the ...
Freedom and Happiness in Economic Thought and Philosophy: From Clash to Reconciliation
1st Edition
Edited
By Ragip Ege, Herrade Igersheim
November 08, 2013
Starting from a distinction made by the American philosopher, John Rawls, in 2000 between two kinds of liberalism, "liberalism of freedom" and "liberalism of happiness", this book presents a range of articles by economists and philosophers debating the most fundamental aspects of the subject. These...
Happiness, Ethics and Economics
1st Edition
By Johannes Hirata
November 08, 2013
Despite decades of empirical happiness research, there is still little evidence for the positive effect of economic growth on life satisfaction. This poses a major challenge to welfare economic theory and to normative conceptions of socio-economic development. This book endeavours to explain these ...
Institutional Economics and National Competitiveness
1st Edition
Edited
By Young Back Choi
November 08, 2013
This book offers a strong contribution to the growing field of institutional economics, going beyond the question of why institutions matter and examines the ways in which different types of institutions are conducive to the enhancement of competitiveness and economic development. Adopting a ...
Monetary Macrodynamics
1st Edition
By Toichiro Asada, Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Reiner Franke
November 08, 2013
This book investigates the interaction of effective goods demand with the wage-price spiral, and the impact of monetary policy on financial and the real markets from a Keynesian perspective. Endogenous business fluctuations are studied in the context of long-run distributive cycles in an advanced, ...
The Global Economic Crisis: New Perspectives on the Critique of Economic Theory and Policy
1st Edition
Edited
By Emiliano Brancaccio, Giuseppe Fontana
November 08, 2013
Why did the economists of the so-called "mainstream" seem to fail to foresee the global economic crisis that exploded in 2008? And why do they appear to have difficulty in putting forward an interpretation of it that is consistent with the theoretical foundations of their models? These two ...
The Moral Rhetoric of Political Economy: Justice and Modern Economic Thought
1st Edition
By Paul Turpin
November 08, 2013
This book examines the effects of the moral rhetoric of the market concept of justice on our understanding of justice. Market theory’s elevation of the role of commutative justice, or justice in exchange and property, is often taken as liberalism’s revolutionary change in priorities of justice in ...
The Political Economy of Bureaucracy
1st Edition
By Steven Richardson
November 08, 2013
The Political Economy of Bureaucracy applies Public Choice theory and a complex systems view of government institutions to analyze policy implementation as an economic process. It addresses the common and vexing question of why managing federal agencies for results is so difficult by challenging ...
The Practices of Happiness: Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing
1st Edition
Edited
By Ian Steedman, John R Atherton, Elaine Graham
November 08, 2013
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. There...
Wage Policy, Income Distribution, and Democratic Theory
1st Edition
By Oren M Levin-Waldman
November 08, 2013
This book explores the relationship between wage policy, distribution of income, and ultimately how that distribution impacts on democratic theory. In doing so, it examines the types of policies that are critical to the maintenance of a sustainable democracy. Wage policy, long the domain of ...
Hayek Versus Marx: And today's challenges
1st Edition
By Eric Aarons
November 07, 2013
The aim of the book is to stimulate the realignment of political, theoretical and philosophical thinking that is now beginning in response to global warming. The author provides an examination of the theories of the most prominent social philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries – Karl Marx ...