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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy: Choices Constraints and Opportunities in the Market Economy (Hardcover)

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... more

New Political Economy: Worker Identity Agency and Economic Development: Women s empowerment in the Indian informal economy (Hardcover)

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... more

Political Economy: The Contest Of Economic Ideas

Contributions to Political Science: Political Economic and Legal Effects of Artificial Intelligence: Governance Digital Economy and Society (Paperback)

Political Economic and Legal Effects of Artificial Intelligence: Governance Digital Economy and Society more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: Economic Theory and Social Change: Problems and Revisions (Hardcover)

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... more

Political Economy : The Contest of Economic Ideas 9780195514582 Used / Pre-owned

Political Economy looks at the competing currents of political economic thought. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to binding most of... more

Recent Economic Thought: Work and Idleness: The Political Economy of Full Employment (Hardcover)

Work and Idleness develops the view that redistributing employment is a `feasible capitalist solution not just to the unemployment which particular groups suffer but also to the work that others have to contend with including many women. Putting the... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: Corporate Financialization: An Economic Sociology Perspective (Hardcover)

The economic process of financialization is defined by many as the development of the dependence and subordination of the productive sector to the financial sector. Leading to an emphasis on maximizing shareholder value above all else the... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: Economic Representations: Academic and Everyday (Paperback)

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... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Socialist Economic Systems: 21st Century Pathways (Hardcover)

Bernie Sanders socialist advocacy in the United States communist China s economic successes and a Marxist revival are inspiring many to muse about improved strategies for building superior socialist futures. Socialist Economic Systems provides an... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: Permanent Economic Disorder (Hardcover)

All schools of thought in economics explicitly or otherwise have referred to economic disorder as a self-evident fact. They have also unanimously considered it to be a temporary state. By contrast this book contends that economic disorder is an... more

Pre-Owned Political Institutions and Economic Growth in Latin America : Essays Policy History Economy 9780817996628 /

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Contributions to Economic Analysis: Political Economy of Government Debt: Symposium: Revised Papers (Hardcover)

This analysis of the political economy of government debt is divided into two parts. The first part deals with theoretical issues and the second part concerns empirical applications. Topics covered include behavioural aspects long term debt strategy... more

China and Globalization 2.0: The Political Economy of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (Hardcover)

This book explores the political economy of China-Pakistan economic corridor a major pilot project for China s One Belt One Road initiatives. Pakistan will provide China with not only a pathway access to the Indian Ocean Middle East and Africa but also... more

Freedom And Happiness In Economic Thought And Philosophy: From Clash To Reconciliation (Routledge Frontiers Of Political Economy) - Ege Ragip

Starting From A Distinction Made By The American Philosopher John Rawls In 2000 Between Two Kinds Of Liberalism Liberalism Of Freedom And Liberalism Of Happiness This Book Presents A Range Of Articles By Economists And Philosophers Debating The Most... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: Economic Change and Wellbeing: The True Cost of Creative Destruction and Globalization (Paperback)

Technological progress and globalization have generated indisputable benefits but also relevant costs such as growing economic inequality economic fluctuations and financial instability. Mainstream economics has usually considered these costs as... more

Political Economy of Diversity : Evolutionary Perspectives on Economic Order and Disorder

Political Economy of Diversity : Evolutionary Perspectives on Economic Order and Disorder more

Economic Liberalization in India: Analytics Experience and Lessons (R.C. Dutt Lectures on Political Economy 1993)

The object of this essay is to provide an analysis and an assessment of economic liberalization in India. It begins with a discussion of the crisis in the economy which surfaced in 1991. It examines the logic and the assumptions of the strategy adopted... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Economic Theory for the Real World (Hardcover)

After the Great Financial Crisis economic theory was fiercely criticized from both outside and inside the discipline for being incapable of explaining a crisis of such magnitude. Slowly but persistently new strands of economic thought are developing to... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: Permanent Economic Disorder (Paperback)

All schools of thought in economics explicitly or otherwise have referred to economic disorder as a self-evident fact. They have also unanimously considered it to be a temporary state. By contrast this book contends that economic disorder is an... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: Culture and Economic Explanation: Economics in the Us and Japan (Paperback)

There is a common view among many economists that one model is capable of explaining a specific type of behaviour in all cultural environments. It is only necessary to make appropriate adjustments to bring the model in line with prevailing cultural... more

International Papers in Political Economy: Economic Policies for Sustainability and Resilience (Paperback)

1: Macro-economic and Financial Policies for Sustainability and Resilience.- 2: Can Economic Growth Last Forever?.- 3: Forms of Ownership for Sustainability and Resilience: the Need for Biodiversity and Corporate Diversity.- 4: Equality Resilience and... more

Pre-Owned Understanding Economic Indicators : Predicting Future Trends in the Economy 9781448855711

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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: Capitalism Institutions and Economic Development (Paperback)

Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Weber Schumpeter Hayek Popper and Parsons this book reconceptualizes actually-existing capitalism. It proposes capitalism as an impersonal procedural solution to the problems of spontaneously... more

Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Afr: Economic Performance in the Middle East and North Africa: Institutions Corruption and Reform (Paperback)

The economies of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are in dire need of substantial institutional reform to improve their growth performance so as to create enough jobs for millions of entrants into their respective job markets and to fight... more

Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy: Economic Growth and Income Inequality in China India and Singapore: Trends and Policy Implications (Hardcover)

The world at large is watching both China and India as powerhouses of economic growth. The two nations have achieved significantly high rates of economic growth ever since their respective economies liberalized in 1978 and 1991. Singapore despite its... more

Ethical Economy: Trends in Business and Economic Ethics (Hardcover)

This volume is a thought-provoking contribution to the development of business and economic ethics as an increasingly important field of study. It presents new insights from scholars in economics philosophy business ethics and management studies. more

Routledge Explorations in Economic History: The Political Economy of International Commodity Cartels (Paperback)

The Political Economy of International Commodity Cartels examines how international commodity cartels in the 1930s were impacted not only by commercial rivalry but also by international trade political and diplomatic concerns. This work presents the... more

Contributions to Economic Analysis: The Political Economy of Antitrust (Hardcover)

Motivated by recent events and experiences in antitrust enforcement and policy in the United States and the European Union and new insights and findings from academic research this book presents a collection of theoretical empirical and public... more

Pre-Owned The Political Economy of Global Restructuring Vol. 1 : Economic Organization and Production 9781852786380 /

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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: Political Economy and Globalization (Paperback)

Based upon distinguishing capitalism from other economic systems as well as analysis of capitalist change across its stages of development Richard Westra argues that the economic tendencies we refer to as globalization constitute a world historic... more

The Political Economy Of Bureaucracy (Routledge Frontiers Of Political Economy) - Richardson Steven

The Political Economy Of Bureaucracy Applies Public Choice Theory And A Complex Systems View Of Government Institutions To Analyze Policy Implementation As An Economic Process. It Addresses The Common And Vexing Question Of Why Managing Federal... more

Advanced Studies in Political Economy: The Soul of Classical Political Economy (Paperback)

James M. Buchanan a prominent political economist of the 20th century and a Nobel laureate in economics was a founding thinker of the public choice tradition and was instrumental in the reintroduction of politics into economic analysis. He was also an... more

The Consumer Credit and Neoliberalism: Governing the Modern Economy (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) - Payne Christopher

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... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: The Responsible Economy (Hardcover)

After the financial crisis and Great Recession some have called for replacing standard economic theory by heterodox models based upon behavioural approaches. The Responsible Economy argues that there is nothing wrong with economic theory. Instead the... more

Open States in the Global Economy: The Political Economy of Small-State Macroeconomic Management (Paperback)

In response to the largely closed-economy assumptions of most cross-national work on economic policy-making Open States in the Global Economy offers an outside-in framework for analyzing the way in which national economic sovereignty is affected by... more

Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia Eastern Europe and Central Asia (Hardcover)

Transition Economies provides students with an up-to-date and highly comprehensive analysis of the economic transformation in former communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe and countries of the former Soviet Union. With coverage extending... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: The Evolution of Economies (Paperback)

It is clear even to casual observation that economies evolve from year to year and over centuries. Yet mainstream economic theory assumes that economies always move towards equilibrium. One consequence of this is that mainstream theory is unable to... more