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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

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.

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71-80 of 171 results in Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
  1. The Market, Happiness, and Solidarity

    A Christian perspective

    By Johan J. Graafland

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    The past two decades of market operation has generated welfare and economic growth in Western countries, but increasing income inequalities, depletion of the natural environment and the current financial crisis have led to an intense debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the free market....

    Published March 18th 2010 by Routledge

  2. Monetary Macrodynamics

    By Toichiro Asada, Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Reiner Franke

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book investigates the interaction of effective goods demand with the wage-price spiral, and the impact of monetary policy on financial and the real markets from a Keynesian perspective. Endogenous business fluctuations are studied in the context of long-run distributive cycles in an advanced,...

    Published March 4th 2010 by Routledge

  3. Critical Political Economy

    Complexity, Rationality, and the Logic of Post-Orthodox Pluralism

    By Christian Arnsperger

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book asks how a more liberating economics could be constructed and taught. It suggests that if economists today are serious about emancipation and empowerment, they will have to radically change their conception about what it means for a citizen to act rationally in a complex society....

    Published February 21st 2010 by Routledge

  4. Computable, Constructive and Behavioural Economic Dynamics

    Essays in Honour of Kumaraswamy (Vela) Velupillai

    Edited by Stefano Zambelli

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    The book contains thirty original articles dealing with important aspects of theoretical as well as applied economic theory. While the principal focus is on: the computational and algorithmic nature of economic dynamics; individual as well as collective decision process and rational behavior, some...

    Published February 17th 2010 by Routledge

  5. Rationality and Explanation in Economics

    By Maurice Lagueux

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Economical questions indisputably occupy a central place in everyday life. In order to clarify these questions, people generally turn to those who are familiar with economics. In answering such legitimate questions, economists propose explanations which rest on a few principles among which the...

    Published February 17th 2010 by Routledge

  6. The Spatial Model of Politics

    By Norman Schofield

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Using unique and cutting-edge research, Schofield a prominent author in the US for a number of years, explores the growth area of positive political economy within economics and politics. The first book to explain the spatial model of voting from a mathematical, economics and game-theory...

    Published January 3rd 2010 by Routledge

  7. Marxian Reproduction Schema

    Money and Aggregate Demand in a Capitalist Economy

    By Andrew Trigg

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    In 1878 Karl Marx developed the reproduction schema: his model of how total capital is produced and reproduced. This is thought to be the first two-sector economic model ever constructed. Two key aspects of Marx’s writings are widely agreed to be undeveloped: The role of aggregate demand and the...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge

  8. Advances on Income Inequality and Concentration Measures

    Edited by Gianni Betti, Achille Lemmi

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This impressive collection from some of today’s leading distributional analysts provides an overview a wide range of economic, statistical and sociological relationships that have been opened up for scientific study by the work of two turn-of-the-20th-century economists: C. Gini and M. O....

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge

  9. Economic Representations

    Academic and Everyday

    Edited by David F Ruccio

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Why is there such a proliferation of economic discourses in literary theory, cultural studies, anti-sweatshop debates, popular music, and other areas outside the official discipline of economics? How is the economy represented in different ways by economists and non-economists? In this volume,...

    Published December 16th 2009 by Routledge

  10. Human Ecology Economics

    A New Framework for Global Sustainability

    Edited by Roy E. Allen

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book presents ‘human ecology economics’ as a new and more comprehensive interdisciplinary framework for understanding ‘world conditions and human systems’. This book helps economists rethink the boundaries and methods of their discipline - so that they can participate more fully in debates...

    Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge