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The Political Economy of Putin’s Russia (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy) - Sutela Pekka

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... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy A Political Economy of Contemporary Capitalism and Its Crisis Book 172 (Hardcover)

The recent financial meltdown and the resulting global recession have rekindled debates regarding the nature of contemporary capitalism. This book analyses the ongoing financialization of the economy as a development within capitalism and explores the... 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

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Political Economy of the Firm: Authority Governance and Economic Democracy (Hardcover)

An alternative theory of the firm is needed that helps better understand the nature and actual functioning of firms as well as the challenges raised by digital platform firms. In defining firms as economic collective ventures organised by political... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy The Political Economy of Global Sporting Organisations (Paperback)

At the global level sport is ruled by a set of organizations including giants such as the IOC (Olympics) FIFA (soccer) and the IAAF (athletics) as well as sporting minnows such as the World Armsport Federation (armwrestling). Many of these bodies have... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Karl Marx s Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy 150 Years Later (Paperback)

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... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Value Money and Capital: The Critique of Political Economy and Contemporary Capitalism (Hardcover)

The book presents a high-impact re-reading of core topics in the Marx and Marxist debates including: value-theory the commodity-nature of money complex or skilled labour the determination of the value of labour-power and the nature of extraordinary... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy: Choices Constraints and Opportunities in the Market Economy Book 157 (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

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Order and Control in American Socio-Economic Thought: Social Scientists and Progressive-Era Reform Book 153 (Hardcover)

This book identifies the basic premises underlying the philosophies of the Progressive Eraspecifically as they relate to the Progressives desire for directed social change. 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

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy The Future of Social Security Policy (Paperback)

Current debates concerning the future of social security provision in advanced capitalist states have raised the issue of a citizen s basic income (CBI) as a possible reform package: a proposal based on the principles of individuality universality and... 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

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

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Institutional Economics and National Competitiveness Book 150 (Hardcover)

This book offers a strong contribution to the growing field of institutional economics going beyond the question of why institutions matter and examines the ways in which different types of institutions are conducive to the enhancement of... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy The Knowledge Problems of European Financial Market Integration (Hardcover)

Since the creation of the euro and a European Central Bank the European Union has persistently pursued financial market integration throughout periods of economic growth membership enlargements financial breakdown and political crisis. While... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 2: Integrated Approaches Book 162 (Hardcover)

This book represents the second of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial the goods and the... 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

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

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 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 Remapping Gender in the New Global Order (Hardcover)

This book analyses changes in gender relations as a result of globalization in countries on the semi-periphery of power. Semi-periphery refers to those nations which are not drivers of change globally but have enough economic and political security to... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Religion Economics and Demography: The Effects of Religion on Education Work and the Family (Paperback)

Using the tools of economics this book analyses how religion affects decisions and outcomes in a wide range of areas including education employment family size entry into cohabitation and formal marriage the choice of spouse and divorce. In each case... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Economics Culture and Development (Hardcover)

This book examines the treatment of culture and development in the discipline of economics thereby filling a conspicuous gap in current literature. Economics has come a long way to join the cultural turn that has swept the humanities and social... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Economics Science and Capitalism (Paperback)

Various strains of heterodox economics have sought and largely failed to dismount orthodoxy from its dominant position. This book critiques the criticizers explaining why heterodox economics challenges have faltered and then presents a coherent... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Post-Keynesian Macroeconomics: Essays in Honour of Ingrid Rima (Paperback)

Edited by three very well known academics in the field and contributed to by John Smithin Laurence Moss and G. C. Harcourt this volume reflects the breath of the honouree s interests and as such it covers a wide range of topics including political... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Economic Indeterminacy: A Personal Encounter with the Economists Peculiar Nemesis (Hardcover)

This volume is a collection of some of the best and most influential work of Yanis Varoufakis. The chapters all address the issue of economic indeterminacy and the place of a socialized Homo Economicus within the economy. The book addresses Varoufakis... 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 What is Financialization? (Hardcover)

This book introduces a new and original analytic approach to defining understanding and explaining financialization. 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 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 Consumer Capitalism (Hardcover)

An excellent addition to Routledge s strong tradition of publishing exceptional books in heterodox economics this innovative and groundbreaking volume draws on the work of Schumpeter Marx and Sraffa three of the most influential economists of all time.... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Distributive Justice and Taxation (Paperback)

Providing a thorough examination of distributive justice Distributive Justice and Taxation presents and discusses different theories of what constitutes a just society and how goods should be distributed in such a society. The distribution of goods in... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Facts Values and Objectivity in Economics Book 156 (Hardcover)

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... 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 Value Distribution and Capital Book 12 (Hardcover)

Exploring the many contributions of Pierangelo Garengnani to modern economics this book covers his work on capital theory the theory of effective demand and stability analysis. more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy: Production Value and Income Distribution: A Classical-Keynesian Approach (Paperback)

This book investigates the relationship between wages profits values and labour employment from a classical-Keynesian perspective. The starting point of this approach is classical political economy (in particular Smith Ricardo and Marx) suitably... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy The Labour Theory of Value (Paperback)

Exploring the origins and development of the labour theory of value Peter Dooley examines its emergence from the natural law philosopher of the sixteenth and seventeenth century and its domination of the classical school of economics. This book will... more

Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy Heterodox Economics and Global Emergencies: Voices from Around the World (Hardcover)

From the financial crash to the climate emergency and Covid this book demonstrates that recent crises have had unequal impacts that they require a heterodox approach to economics for their understanding and new ways of thinking are needed to address them. more