Bücher der Reihe Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

This book seeks to explain the global financial crisis and its wider economic, political, and social repercussions, arguing that the 2007-9 meltdown was in fact a systemic crisis of the capitalist system.

Although most traditional economic theory puts the individual at the centre of analysis, more recent approaches have acknowledged the importance of a wider sense of identity as a determinant of individual behaviour. Whether it is ethnicity, religion or gender, group membership is a central part of human life. This book presents new advances in areas which consider both the individual and the group when measuring inequalities and well-being.

Some alternatives to capitalism have been proposed since the end of the Cold War, but none has offered an alternative form of economic calculation. This book explains how modern information technology may be used to implement a new method of economic calculation that could bring an end to capitalism and make socialism possible.

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This book provides an economic-theoretical understanding of the many ways in which innovation can structure consumer choice, a central theme that has been ignored by traditional economic theory.

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.

This book unites formal mathematical economics and idiosyncratic political economy. Analytical rigour is brought to the market concept giving general equilibrium theory a new lease of life.

Civil society organizations are playing a key role in addressing global societal and ecological issues, often setting the agenda for public discourse. Therefore, at a time when they are becoming more varied and interwoven than ever, critical analysis of the governance of these organizations and networks, and their role in a democratic society, is particularly important.

Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death examines the economic logic involved in determining whose lives and deaths come to matter and why. Drawing from eight distinct case studies focused on the killability and grievability of certain humans, animals, and environmental systems, this book advances an intersectional theory of economies of death.

Collected here are wide-ranging contributions to economics in general, and to post-Keynesian economics in particular by leading economists.

This volume commemorates a decade of the 'Malvern Conference'. Written by economists for economists, in celebration of some of the best minds of this century.

In recent years there has been increasing discontent with the abstract nature of mainstream economics. The book explores the ways in which economics might be reconnected, both with the real world and with other disciplines.

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.

This collection of contributed work is concerned mainly with developments in the neo-classical tradition of political economics, and examines the role played by rational choice in the decision-making processes of firms and the state.

This book provides the basic knowledge of Japanese contributions in political economy and ongoing research agenda such as the pursuit of theoretical consistency in Marxian economics by Uno School. The themes include: the broader tendencies in international capitalism and how past patterns of uneven development are now changing; the role of international finance in affecting both national and international growth and employment patterns; analysis of recent growth patterns in Asia; the specific issue emerging within the Asian region and the implications for economics, social change and geopolitics.

Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud shows specifically how these policies, reforms, ideas, social relations and practices that are described as `neo-liberal¿ have encouraged and rendered (more) dominant particular values and morals, shaping a type of socio-cultural change across the world that is conducive to fraud. This book investigates these moral worlds of fraud in different settings across the world, and shows how contemporary fraud is not the outcome of a few `bad apples¿.