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31. Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy

    Choices, Constraints and Opportunities in the Market Economy

    By Morris Altman

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book provides a theoretical framework to better understand how firms, economies and labor markets have evolved. This is done in a reader-friendly fashion, without complex mathematical arguments and proofs. Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy shows how high wage economies help make firms...

    Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
32. Social Costs Today

    Institutional Analyses of the Present Crises

    Edited by Wolfram Elsner, Pietro Frigato, Paolo Ramazzotti

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book deals with the current crises from a somewhat different the usual perspectives. It claims that causes and policy implications of these crises cannot be properly assessed by focusing on allocative efficiency or income growth alone; it requires a more general approach, based on social costs...

    Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
33. Full-Spectrum Economics

    Toward an Inclusive and Emancipatory Social Science

    By Christian Arnsperger

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Economics is essential in today’s world, and yet mainstream economists are increasingly under criticism for not taking into account sufficiently many dimensions of real life, such as political and moral values, human development, spirituality, and people’s widely shared aspiration to live more...

    Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
34. Facts, Values and Objectivity in Economics

    Edited by José Castro Caldas, Vítor Neves

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Is Economics an ‘objective’ or ‘positive’ science, independent of ethical and political positions? The financial crisis that began in 2007 gave rise to renewed doubts regarding the ‘objectivity’ of economics and brought into the public arena a debate that was previously confined to academia. A...

    Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
35. The Irreconcilable Inconsistencies of Neoclassical Macroeconomics

    A False Paradigm

    By John Weeks

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    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...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
36. The Political Economy of Putin’s Russia

    By Pekka Sutela

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    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...

    Published February 16th 2012 by Routledge
37. Hahn and Economic Methodology

    By Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Hahn on Methodology: The Quest for Understanding addresses two fundamental questions: (i) what is distinctive about economic theorising?; (ii) what is the cognitive value of the outcome of this activity of economic theorising, i.e. economic theory. We will argue that for Hahn, economic theorising...

    Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
38. Order and Control in American Socio-Economic Thought

    Social Scientists and Progressive-Era Reform

    By Charles McCann

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, American social scientists, drawing on their experiences with the German social welfare...

    Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
39. Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy

    The Social Effort Bargain

    By Robert LaJeunesse

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
40. The Consumer, Credit and Neoliberalism

    Governing the Modern Economy

    By Christopher Payne

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in 2007-8. It demonstrates that influential economists, such as F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, authors at key...

    Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge