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.
Political Economy of the Spanish Miracle: State, Labor and Capital, 1931–1973
1st Edition
By Diego Ayala
May 27, 2025
In the 1950s and 1960s, Spain underwent one of the most rapid processes of economic development the world had ever seen. Most existing analyses of this process explain the “Spanish Miracle” as a product of the unleashing of market forces and of changes in economic policy made by the Franco regime ...
Researching Poverty and Austerity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodologies and Policy Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline Moraes, Morven G. McEachern, Deirdre O'Loughlin
May 27, 2025
Poverty is a complex global challenge rooted in intertwined social, economic and political factors, which excludes people from participating fully in normalised social and market-based activities. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated poverty-related issues such as food insecurity, and growing ...
The Financial Foundations of Production and Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Andres F. Cantillo
April 14, 2025
Rejecting much of mainstream economic theory for being too passive, this book argues that the innovative and unpredictable nature of economic phenomena is better understood with analytical devices, which allow for more creative and participatory analysis. As is demonstrated, this has significant ...
Transformations of Contemporary Capitalism: The Second Industrial Divide and Flexible Specialisation
1st Edition
By David Evans
April 14, 2025
In recent decades, there has been many attempts to describe, explore, and explain the new ‘post-modern’ capitalism of the twenty-first century. In this context, this book looks at one of the most exciting strands of this research in the late twentieth century: the flexible specialisation research ...
Declining Profitability and the Evolution of the US Economy: A Classical Perspective
1st Edition
By Ascension Mejorado, Manuel Roman
January 30, 2025
The 1970s were a pivotal decade for the US economy: deindustrialization broke the power of the labor unions and made possible the redistribution of income in favor of corporate profits; globalization and offshore investments opened alternatives to domestic nonfinancial capital accumulation; ...
Socialist Economic Systems: 21st Century Pathways
1st Edition
By Steven Rosefielde
January 30, 2025
Bernie Sanders’ socialist advocacy in the United States, communist China’s economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse about improved strategies for building superior socialist futures. Socialist Economic Systems provides an objective record of socialism’s promises and ...
The Meaning of Shared Value: New Perspective on Creating Shared Value
1st Edition
By Paolo Ricci, Patrick O'Sullivan, Floriana Fusco
December 19, 2024
The concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) – creating 'economic' value in a way that also creates value for the whole of society – has risen in prominence as a corporate policy and a strategy in recent years, mainly for third sector or development organisations. However, while it has received ...
The Political Economy of Corruption
1st Edition
Edited
By Chandan Kumar Jha, Ajit Mishra, Sudipta Sarangi
December 19, 2024
Corruption, commonly defined as the misuse of public office for private gains, is multifaceted, multidimensional and ubiquitous. This edited collection, featuring contributions from leading scholars in the field of corruption, goes beyond the standard enforcement framework wherein individuals only ...
COVID-19 and Economic Development in Latin America: Theoretical Debates, Financing Dilemmas and Post-Pandemic Scenarios
1st Edition
Edited
By Monika Meireles, Bruno De Conti, Diego Guevara
December 18, 2024
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global economy, just as with the Great Recession a decade earlier, has served to reinforce the fact that the world is hierarchically organized and the distribution of power between countries is distinctly asymmetric. Gathering multiple viewpoints of Latin ...
Human Economics: Paradigms, Systems, and Dynamics
1st Edition
By Sara Casagrande
December 18, 2024
The term “human economics” is sometimes used within economic theory with the hope of repositioning economic discipline as a human and social science, but with scarce success. Indeed, although great economists have always carefully considered human nature, it has been largely neglected in ...
New Economic Statecraft: China, the United States and the European Union
1st Edition
By Zhang Xiaotong
December 18, 2024
This book provides insights on the art of governing a state and managing its external relations from a wealth-power logic. It looks at "economic statecraft", which consists of wealth production, wealth mobilization, and wealth-power conversion by a state. This book reconceptualizes what economic ...
New Institutional Economics as Situational Logic: A Phenomenological Perspective
1st Edition
By Piet de Vries
December 18, 2024
Drawing on phenomenological and realist approaches, this book surveys the theoretical evolution of new institutional economics. For all its popularity and explanatory power, new institutional economics is not a homogenous field but encompasses a range of different theoretical approaches starting ...