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  1. Discipline in the Global Economy?

    International Finance and the End of Liberalism

    By Jakob Vestergaard

    Series: New Political Economy

    In Discipline in the Global Economy, Jakob Vestergaard investigates the currently prevailing regulation of international finance, launched in response to the financial crises of the 1990’s. At the core of this approach is a set of standards of ‘best practice’, ranging from banking supervision to...

    Published February 2nd 2012 by Routledge

  2. Seeking Sustainability

    On the prospect of an ecological liberalism

    By G. J Paton

    Series: New Political Economy

    The ideas of neoliberalism perpetuate a disembedded and dichotomised view of economy-ecology relations. The renewed interest in climate change and sustainability attests to the lack of progress achieved by the ‘sustainable development’ regime and to the need for more appropriate frameworks for...

    Published October 24th 2010 by Routledge

  3. Market Sense

    Toward a New Economics of Markets and Society

    By Philip Kozel

    Series: New Political Economy

    This book concentrates upon the historic associations of the marketplace in the work of Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and demonstrates how what markets were imagined to entail for society was critical to each author's understanding of the central social problems of their time....

    Published June 17th 2010 by Routledge

  4. Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development

    Women's empowerment in the Indian informal economy

    By Elizabeth Hill

    Series: New Political Economy

    More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic forms of social security. They work as daily labourers in the fields, small producers and industrial outworkers in their own homes and as vendors on the...

    Published June 9th 2010 by Routledge

  5. Everyday Economic Practices

    The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices

    By Savinna Chowdhury

    Series: New Political Economy

    This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold. She demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as "capitalism...

    Published January 21st 2007 by Routledge

  6. Political Economy from Below

    Economic Thought in Communitarian Anarchism, 1840-1914

    By Rob Knowles

    Series: New Political Economy

    Published October 5th 2004 by Routledge