Bücher der Reihe Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

With contributions from a galaxy of economists - including David Colander, Robin Hahnel, Yanis Varioufakis and Fred Lee - this book is an important read and an attempt to break down the varied barriers that have been erected to economic pluralism.

Using information from sixteen countries including the UK, US, Germany and France, this book charts the fortunes of the labour movement. It examines the debates over strategy and suggests ways of reigniting its fortunes.

Answering a range of questions and written by a rising star in feminist economics, this book provides explanations of the different kinds of feminism, the evolution of feminist thought and, the history and sources of utopias as a theoretical and/or literary tool.

Brings together scholars from various disciplines, along with nonacademics to address the question of economic representation from a variety of perspectives, ranging from the question of globalization to cultural economies.

Asks how a more liberating economics could be constructed and taught. This book suggests that if economists 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.

Economists occupy leading positions in many different sectors. Power and Influence of Economists explores the interconnected relationship between power, knowledge and influence which has led economics to be both a source and beneficiary of widespread power and influence.

This work explores major methodological issues in the area of radical subjectivism and includes contributions from Jorg Bibow, Peter Boettke, Maurizio Caserta, Steven Horwitz, Brian J. Loasby, Steven Parsons, Steve Sullivan and Carlo Zappia.

The multiplier is a central concept in Keynesian and post-Keynesian economics. This book explores both the pros and cons of the multiplier from a strictly post-Keynesian - and Kaleckian - approach. It analyses the historical foundations of the Keynesian Multiplier and it's treatment throughout the history of economic thought.

Social choice and decision-making are key topics in economic theory. Exploring the relations between choice and individuality, Robert Urquhart suggests that mundane choices are as fraught with difficulties as the grander, life-rending ones.

Compares Karl Popper and Friedrich Hayek systematically and critically assessing their contribution to the political philosophy of the Open Society.

This volume brings together important papers, coupled with new introductions, in the massively influential area of uncertainty in economic theory.

Gives an introduction to institutional economics, following the history of different trends in this field since the early 20th century onwards. This work relates the history of economic theories that make up the enlarged family of institutional economics. It also introduces novel concepts of contemporary research.

Demonstrates that economic analysis can deepen our understanding of the historical experience of American Jewry. The author applies the methodology of modern labor economics to examine how America's unique economic environment in the twentieth century provided a context for the ancient Jewish religion to adapt to different circumstances.

This book tackles the issue of involuntary employment, examining the issue in the light of Keynesian and Post-Keynesian theory.

Austrian economics is often criticized as being hostile to empirical research and seen purely as an ideology. On the contrary, this book shows that Austrian economics provides an interesting approach to most conceivable subjects in economics.

In the light of questions about the state and responsibility in the wake of the financial crisis, the debate on value-neutrality and objectivity has again come to the fore. This volume brings together economists, sociologists and philosophers, to explore the key issues involved in this debate.

Ingrid Rima, one of the first women to teach economics in America, has been a major figure in the development of Post-Keynesian economics over the past forty years. Rima has made numerous contributions to the fields of labour economics, history of economic thought, and Post Keynesian economic theory. This volume looks at these contributions.

This book aims to make the nature of input-output analysis in economics clearly accessible and, contrary to the opinion of many commentators, shows that this type of analysis can be compatible with the doctrines of neoclassical economics.

This collection honours the work of the eminent economist Josef Steindl. This collection charts the thinking of one of the leading economic theorist of the twentieth century.

Austrian economics is often criticized as being hostile to empirical research and seen purely as an ideology. In contrast, this book shows that Austrian economics provides an interesting approach to most conceivable subjects in economics.

Presents 'human ecology economics' as a 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 over humankind's present problems and on the ways that they can be solved.

This collection puts forward promising reinterpretations of the primary schools of heterodox political economy, stringent critiques of the conventional readings of the recession, new schemes of theoretical and empirical analysis of the crisis, and proposals for economic policies alternative to those hitherto adopted.

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

The Future of Capitalism After the Financial Crisis: The Varieties of Capitalism Debate in the Age of Austerity contains thirteen world leading political economists writing from within eight different countries who critically analyze the current crisis tendencies of capitalism both globally and in particular countries. Given the likelihood of an increasingly crisis prone future for capitalism, it is important not only to rethink capitalism in its current manifestations or varieties. It is also important to rethink research methods and conceptual frameworks in preparation for understanding an increasingly rocky future in which capitalism itself could go the way of the many species that in the past were endangered only to become extinct. More and more titles of books and articles are suggesting that capitalism or perhaps civilization itself is endangered if we do not make radical changes in the near future. This book breaks with academic path dependency and attempts to open new vistas of political economy and of multidisciplinary analysis that are crucially important if our thought processes are to be effective in a world in jeopardy. 　 The varieties of capitalism (VoC) debate itself came into being as the Soviet Union unraveled. It drew in scholarship from a cross-section of Marxian and heterodox political economy. The key argument of VoC was that if capitalism was the only global option then those on the Left must get involved in policy discussions on how capitalist economies can be fashioned to become competitive as well as progressive. However, the financial crisis has seen policy across the advanced economies veer toward competitiveness coupled with austerity. The lesson for the Left is that alternatives to capitalism must be sought in the here and now.

Two of the important national experiences with policies of positive discrimination in favor of historically disadvantaged ethnic or caste minority groups are the cases of 'Affirmative Action' in the United States and 'Reservation Policies' in India. This book examines the consequences of affirmative action in both countries.