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.
Capital, Exploitation and Economic Crisis
1st Edition
By John Weeks
May 30, 2014
In 2008 the capitalist world was swept by the severest crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Mainstream economics neither anticipated nor could account for this disastrous financial crisis, which required massive state intervention throughout the capitalist world. Karl Marx did anticipate...
Capitalist Diversity and Diversity within Capitalism
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Wood, Christel Lane
May 30, 2014
The economic crisis that began in 2008 has underscored the impact not only of embedded and assumed ways of managing the economy, but also that present circumstances are the product of a long period of experimentation and bounded diversity; it is understanding the nature of both that forms a central...
Political Economy After Economics: Scientific Method and Radical Imagination
1st Edition
By David Laibman
May 30, 2014
This re-incorporation of economics into political economy is one (small, but not insignificant) element in a larger project: to place all of the resources of present-day social-scientific research at the service of increasing democracy, in an ultimate direction toward socialism in the classic sense...
Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 1: Partial Perspectives
1st Edition
By Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Willi Semmler
May 30, 2014
This book represents the first 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. It ...
Robinson Crusoe's Economic Man: A Construction and Deconstruction
1st Edition
Edited
By Ulla Grapard, Gillian Hewitson
May 30, 2014
In this book, economists and literary scholars examine the uses to which the Robinson Crusoe figure has been put by the economics discipline since the publication of Defoe’s novel in 1719. The authors’ critical readings of two centuries of texts that have made use of Robinson Crusoe undermine the ...
The Irreconcilable Inconsistencies of Neoclassical Macroeconomics: A False Paradigm
1st Edition
By John Weeks
May 30, 2014
In the course of this book it is argued that the loss of what is essentially "macro" in Keynes is the result of a preference for a form of equilibrium analysis that gives unqualified support to the ideology of free markets. In the case of Marx, his theory of exploitation and from this the stress on...
Economics, Sustainability, and Democracy: Economics in the Era of Climate Change
1st Edition
By Christopher Nobbs
May 19, 2014
How should we conduct economics in an era of climate change, natural resource depletion and population increase? These issues are systemic, and involve great uncertainties and long time horizons. This book contends that the free-market economics that has dominated capitalist democracies in recent ...
Popper, Hayek and the Open Society
1st Edition
By Calvin Hayes
May 19, 2014
This is the first book to compare Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek systematically, and critically assess their contribution to the political philosophy of the Open Society. Hayes compares and contrasts their views on three key areas relevant to their political philosophy; first their views on ...
The Political Economy of Putin’s Russia
1st Edition
By Pekka Sutela
May 19, 2014
This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia’s economic development and economic policies since 2000, when Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia. After the slow decline and sudden collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked upon a multi-faceted change. This included transition ...
Information Technology and Socialist Construction: The End of Capital and the Transition to Socialism
1st Edition
By Daniel E. Saros
April 24, 2014
The failure of command central planning in the twentieth century has led to a general disillusionment within the socialist movement worldwide. Some alternatives to capitalism have been proposed since the end of the Cold War, but none has offered an alternative form of economic calculation. This ...
Economics Versus Human Rights
1st Edition
By Manuel Couret Branco
April 28, 2014
Human rights and economics are the concepts that have contributed the most to free human kind, the former from fear and the latter from need. Consequently, they should be complementing rather competing. Unfortunately it does not seem to be the case. In this book Manuel Couret Branco shows how ...
Fiscal Policy Convergence from Reagan to Blair: The Left Veers Right
1st Edition
By Arthur T. Denzau, Ravi K. Roy
April 10, 2014
The elections of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair in the 1990s saw the consolidation and completion of critical aspects of the Reagan-Thatcher fiscal agenda. This impressive book critically analyzes this process. It has been previously thought that this process of adopting common fiscal policies was ...