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61. The Practices of Happiness

    Political Economy, Religion and Wellbeing

    Edited by Ian Steedman, John R Atherton, Elaine Graham

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    There is growing evidence that rising levels of prosperity in Western economies since 1945 have not been matched by greater incidences of reported well-being and happiness. Indeed, material affluence is often accompanied instead by greater social and individual distress. A growing literature within...

    Published July 21st 2010 by Routledge
62. Economic Theory and Social Change

    Problems and Revisions

    By Hasse Ekstedt, Angelo Fusari

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book is a discourse on modelling Man in a social context. Its focus is on economic main-stream theory in its capacity to handle basic problems such as uncertainty, social dynamics and ethics. The point of departure is a systematic critique of the specific methodology of economics and its...

    Published June 16th 2010 by Routledge
63. The Political Economy of Work

    By David Spencer

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Against the background of increasing interest in the changing nature and quality of work, The Political Economy of Work offers a new and unique assessment of the theoretical analysis of work. The author challenges some common preconceptions about work and promotes an original approach to the field,...

    Published May 16th 2010 by Routledge
64. Imagining Economics Otherwise

    Encounters with Identity/Difference

    By Nitasha Kaul

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    It is possible to be ‘irrational’ without being ‘uneconomic’? What is the link between ‘Value’ and ‘values’? What do economists do when they ‘explain’? We live in times when the economic logic has become unquestionable and all-powerful so that our quotidian economic experiences are defined by their...

    Published April 16th 2010 by Routledge
65. Money, Enterprise and Income Distribution

    Towards a macroeconomic theory of capitalism

    By John Smithin

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Mainstream neoclassical economics tells us that money is essentially a commodity, has no other social meanings or consequences, and (therefore) exists only as a medium of exchange to lubricate/facilitate barter. This book takes the view that money is definitively a social relation between...

    Published April 14th 2010 by Routledge
66. Economics, Rational Choice and Normative Philosophy

    Edited by Thomas Boylan, Ruvin Gekker

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Following Amartya Sen’s insistence to expand the framework of rational choice theory by taking into account ‘non-utility information,’ economists, political scientists and philosophers have recently concentrated their efforts in analysing the issues related to rights, freedom, diversity intentions...

    Published April 14th 2010 by Routledge
67. Karl Marx’s Grundrisse

    Foundations of the critique of political economy 150 years later

    Edited by Marcello Musto

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Written between 1857 and 1858, the Grundrisse is the first draft of Marx’s critique of political economy and, thus, also the initial preparatory work on Capital. Despite its editorial vicissitudes and late publication, Grundrisse contains numerous reflections on matters that Marx did not develop...

    Published April 14th 2010 by Routledge
68. Sublime Economy

    On the intersection of art and economics

    Edited by Jack Amariglio, Joseph W. Childers, Stephen E. Cullenberg

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Over the last two centuries, artists, critics, philosophers and theorists have contributed significantly to such representations of "the economy" as sublime. It might even be said that much of the emergence of a distinctly "modern" art in the West is inextricably linked to the perception of art’s...

    Published April 14th 2010 by Routledge
69. The 'Uncertain' Foundations of Post Keynesian Economics

    Essays in Exploration

    By Stephen Dunn

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This important new book introduces, analyzes and takes forward a post-Keynesian theory of the firm. It makes a vital contribution to the conceptualisation of uncertainty that is consistent with the methodological presuppositions of Post Keynesian economics. The author attempts to make a positive...

    Published April 14th 2010 by Routledge
70. Economic Complexity and Equilibrium Illusion

    Essays on market instability and macro vitality

    Edited by Ping Chen

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    The Principle of Large Numbers indicates that macro fluctuations have weak microfoundations; persistent business cycles and interrupted technologies can be better characterized by macro vitality and meso foundations. Economic growth is limited by market extent and ecological constraints. The...

    Published March 18th 2010 by Routledge