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 Ecological Economics and Development: Critical Reflections on the Thought of Manfred Max-Neef
1st Edition
Edited
By Luis Valenzuela, María del Valle Barrera
November 29, 2024
The interrelationship among development, environment, and human needs is one of the key issues being faced by the world today. The Chilean economist, Manfred Max-Neef, was a leading thinker on this dynamic, and this book provides both an introduction to and analysis of his work and ideas. Arranged ...
Marxist Political Economy and Bourdieu: Economic and Cultural Capital, Classes and State
1st Edition
By George Economakis, Theofanis Papageorgiou
November 28, 2024
This book systematically addresses Bourdieu’s key ideas and concepts in the context of Marxist thought. In this book, Bourdieu’s central theoretical points are analyzed within a political, sociological and politico-economic framework which allows for the development of a sequential narrative of his...
Post-Keynesian Theories of the Firm: Kalecki and Radical Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Nobantu Mbeki
November 28, 2024
Within Post-Keynesian economics there is a spectrum of approaches to theories of the firm but what they have in common, to their great benefit, is a proper integration of the concept of radical uncertainty: data that cannot be known. This book revisits Kalecki’s theory of the firm is located to ...
Corporate Financialization: An Economic Sociology Perspective
1st Edition
By Marcelo José do Carmo, Mário Sacomano Neto, Julio Cesar Donadone
October 09, 2024
The economic process of financialization is defined by many as the development of the dependence and subordination of the productive sector to the financial sector. Leading to an emphasis on maximizing shareholder value above all else, the financialization of the economy and production has an ...
Critical Theory and Economics: Philosophical Notes on Contemporary Inequality
1st Edition
By Robin Maialeh
October 08, 2024
This book expands upon a range of economic insights within the overall context of critical theory, particularly with respect to the question of socioeconomic inequalities, and presents an explanation of how critical theory provides a number of interesting perspectives for economists. Economic ...
Innovation, Complexity and Economic Evolution: From Theory to Policy
1st Edition
By Pier Paolo Saviotti
October 07, 2024
If evolutionary economics is to compete with neoclassical economics as a general-purpose economic theory, it needs to incorporate new aspects of socioeconomic reality, such as institutions of all types, including technical, scientific, and political. Furthermore, evolutionary economics needs to be ...
Wellbeing, Nature, and Moral Values in Economics: How Modern Economic Analysis Faces the Challenges Ahead
1st Edition
By Heinz Welsch
October 07, 2024
Drawing on more modern expressions of economic analysis, this book explores the interplay between wellbeing, nature and moral values in economics. In standard accounts of economics, these three themes are typically treated in isolation from each other, or else overlooked entirely. This book ...
Economic Growth and Inequality: The Economists' Dilemma
1st Edition
By Laurent Dobuzinskis
October 04, 2024
In an era of increasing inequalities, and also of deep anxieties about the consequences of two major economic crises, economists are faced with a major question: can economic growth be achieved without inequalities? Economic Growth and Inequality critically evaluates the economic literature on this...
Globalization and the Decline of American Power: The Political Economy of the American Fall
1st Edition
By Cyrus Bina
August 05, 2024
This book explores America’s decline as a global power, arguing that the implosion of Pax Americana was initiated by the process of globalization, preceding the collapse of the Soviet Union by nearly a decade. The era of Pax Americana, and with it American hegemony, is conclusively passed, and will...
Macroeconomic Modelling, Economic Policy and Methodology: Economics at the Edge
1st Edition
Edited
By Mikael Randrup Byrialsen, Hamid Raza, Finn Olesen
August 05, 2024
Demonstrating that there are (superior) alternatives to the modern macroeconomic mainstream and its DSGE (dynamic stochastic general equilibrium) models, this book presents the cutting edge in macroeconomic modelling, economic policy, and methodology from the perspective of heterodox economic ...
Bernard Schmitt’s Quantum Macroeconomic Analysis
1st Edition
By Alvaro Cencini
July 29, 2024
The aim of Bernard Schmitt’s analysis of the monetary economy of production was twofold: to introduce and to explain the logical character of the macroeconomic laws governing our economies and to explain the origin of the pathologies that follow if these laws are not complied with. Schmitt’s main ...
Blockchain and the Commons
1st Edition
By Vangelis Papadimitropoulos
July 29, 2024
Recent years have seen a surge of interest in ‘the commons’ based on a simple yet radical idea: great improvements in production and management could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and power-sharing. Ranging from meadows, forests and parks to language, open-source software (...