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.
Disequilibrium Economics: Fluctuations in the U.S. Postwar Economy
1st Edition
By Gérard Duménil, Dominique Levy
September 14, 2026
This book is about macroeconomics as a major field of economic theory. The reference to "alternative macroeconomic theory" emphasizes the distance from mainstream and Keynesian economics. There are important groundings in this book, notably in Marxian, Keynesian, Schumpeterian, and Minskian ...
The BRICs and the Global Agrifood System: Varieties of Capitalism and Food Regime Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Fabiano Escher
August 20, 2026
The BRICS grouping - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - jointly founded the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement as part of their efforts to constitute a trade, monetary and geopolitical bloc. However, an inability to deal collectively with external pressures, ...
Derivatives and the Transformation of Capitalism
1st Edition
By Marcelo Milan
July 22, 2026
This book discusses the astonishing rise of so-called derivatives, economic instruments related to different types of risks, and the changes this has imposed to the functioning of advanced capitalist economies. The market for derivatives has grown exponentially since the 1980s, and today dwarfs ...
Reimagining the Welfare State
1st Edition
By Celia Lessa Kerstenetzky
July 17, 2026
New social risks, ranging from profound transformations in labour markets to rising inequality and the climate crisis, are reshaping contemporary societies and demanding innovative forms of social policy. This book argues that the critical expansion of public social services is central to ...
Bank Profitability and Interest Rates: An Endogenous Money Theory Perspective
1st Edition
By Riccardo Zolea
July 13, 2026
In recent years many financial and monetary issues have been clarified and explained by post-Keynesian theory, but some open questions remain on the functioning of the bank and the role of bank profitability in interest rate determination and distributive conflict. The book identifies a banking ...
Heterodox Economics and Social Policy: Reassessing Equality of Opportunity and Equality of Place
1st Edition
Edited
By Camilo Andrés Guevara Castañeda
June 29, 2026
This book critically examines the theoretical and practical foundations of contemporary social policy through the lens of heterodox economic thought. Despite decades of academic debate and institutional reform, contemporary social policy remains largely anchored in the liberal tradition of equality...
Corruption and the Sustainable Development Goals
1st Edition
Edited
By Robert Gillanders, Chandan Jha
June 19, 2026
With a chapter devoted to each of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, this edited volume explores the evidence that corruption is a strong impediment to achieving the SDGs and that strong anti-corruption policy is essential if any are to be achieved. For some of the goals there is much existing...
Keynes and Macroeconomics: An Alternative Theory of Employment, Finance and Sustainability
1st Edition
By Arne Heise
June 19, 2026
In 1936 John Maynard Keynes published a book that he believed would revolutionize the way the world thinks about economic problems: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money. Although the book became the foundation of a particular approach to economic theorizing—later termed ...
Nativism and Capitalism: From Colonial Hauntings to Radical Indigenous Futures
1st Edition
By Peter Bloom
June 09, 2026
Nativism and Capitalism: From Colonial Hauntings to Radical Indigenous Futures offers a sweeping reappraisal of nativism as a central force within global capitalism rather than a simple reaction against it. Peter Bloom shows how the figure of the “native”, inherited from colonial rule, continues to...
Economic Growth and Long Cycles: A Classical Political Economy Approach
1st Edition
By Nikolaos Chatzarakis, Persefoni Tsaliki, Lefteris Tsoulfidis
May 22, 2026
Contemporary capitalism is characterized by periods of vigorous economic growth and periods of slow or even negative growth. This book draws on the classical political economy approach to consider both economic cycles and economic growth and draw conclusions about the inherent instability of the ...
Inequality and Stagnation: A Monetary Interpretation
1st Edition
By Santiago Capraro, Carlo Panico, Luis Torres-González
May 22, 2026
The book examines how the outgrowth of the financial industry has contributed to the recent tendencies towards inequality and stagnation. It proposes a monetary interpretation of these events using a Classical–Keynesian theoretical approach derived from the work of Keynes and Sraffa. The approach ...
Macroeconomics After the General Theory: Fundamental Uncertainty, Animal Spirits and Shifting Equilibrium in a Competitive Economy
1st Edition
By Angel Asensio
May 22, 2026
Both Keynes’s General Theory and orthodox economics seek to understand how competitive markets work, but they diverge sharply with respect to the nature and properties of the competitive equilibrium. The reason, as Keynes himself pointed out, is that the General Theory recognises that the future ...