Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
About the Book Series
In recent years, there has been widespread criticism of mainstream economics. This has taken many forms, from methodological critiques of its excessive formalism, to concern about its failure to connect with many of the most pressing social issues. This series provides a forum for research which is developing alternative forms of economic analysis. Reclaiming the traditional 'political economy' title, it refrains from emphasising any single school of thought, but instead attempts to foster greater diversity within economics.
The Participatory Economy: Adding Realism to Democratic Planning
1st Edition
By Anders Sandström
October 30, 2026
This book explores the participatory economy model (parecon) as a democratic alternative to capitalism and central planning. Written from an accounting perspective, it addresses two critical challenges in implementing this theoretical framework: product categorisation and contextualising annual ...
Modern Economics and Social Reality
1st Edition
Edited
By Ioana Negru, Stephen Pratten, Yannick Slade-Caffarel
October 16, 2026
Tony Lawson is among the most influential economists of his generation. He has reclaimed a place for explicit, sustained, ontological analysis in economics demonstrating how its decades- long neglect has hampered the discipline. Regarding social theorising more generally, Lawson has been centrally ...
A Classical-Keynesian Approach to Macroeconomics: Growth, Production, and the Environment
1st Edition
Edited
By Eladio Febrero, Maria-Angeles Cadarso, Ferran Portella-Carbó
September 28, 2026
Presenting a robust alternative to mainstream economics, this book outlines a coherent Classical-Keynesian approach to economics - one grounded in the Classical theory of value, the Keynesian principle of effective demand, and the post-Keynesian perspective on money and finance. The chapters from ...
Marx, the State, and Primitive Accumulation: Rethinking Dispossession Under Capitalism
1st Edition
By Raju J Das
September 21, 2026
Critically engaging with contributions from both the Global North and South, this book offers a systematic rethinking of Marx’s concept of primitive accumulation and its relevance to contemporary capitalism. The book argues that recent attempts to reinterpret dispossession often suffer from ...
Disequilibrium Economics: Fluctuations in the U.S. Postwar Economy
1st Edition
By Gérard Duménil, Dominique Levy
September 14, 2026
This book is about macroeconomics as a major field of economic theory. The reference to "alternative macroeconomic theory" emphasizes the distance from mainstream and Keynesian economics. There are important groundings in this book, notably in Marxian, Keynesian, Schumpeterian, and Minskian ...
The Political Economies of High-Speed Rail: A Global View
1st Edition
Edited
By Natalia Buier, Simon Haikola
September 14, 2026
High-speed rail (HSR) is the object of conflicting assessments. It is simultaneously viewed as modern, backwards, progressive, conservative, green, unsustainable, disruptive and path-dependent. This volume takes as its starting point the heterogeneous appraisal of contemporary high speed rail ...
Growth Models and Structural Change: Regional Varieties and Socioeconomic Impacts
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel Herrero, Miguel Á. Casaú
September 10, 2026
Connecting comparative political economy with structural economics, this book explores the relationship between national growth models and economic structures and considers the impacts of both growth models and structural change on various arenas include gender and environmental issues. The ...
The BRICs and the Global Agrifood System: Varieties of Capitalism and Food Regime Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Fabiano Escher
August 20, 2026
The BRICS grouping - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - jointly founded the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement as part of their efforts to constitute a trade, monetary and geopolitical bloc. However, an inability to deal collectively with external pressures, ...
Derivatives and the Transformation of Capitalism
1st Edition
By Marcelo Milan
July 22, 2026
This book discusses the astonishing rise of so-called derivatives, economic instruments related to different types of risks, and the changes this has imposed to the functioning of advanced capitalist economies. The market for derivatives has grown exponentially since the 1980s, and today dwarfs ...
A Financial Theory of the Business Cycle: Net Present Value and Fractional Reserve Banking
1st Edition
By Edward W. Fuller, Warren Young
July 20, 2026
A Financial Theory of the Business Cycle presents a new approach to business cycle theory based on the net present value. The book develops a novel diagrammatic approach to illustrate how fractional reserve banking systematically distorts net-present-value calculations. In addition to providing ...
Capital, Entrepreneurship and Management: A New Austrian Theory of Organizations
1st Edition
By Thierry Aimar
July 20, 2026
Economic and organizational literature has long separated the figure of the capitalist and the manager, but it often continues to assimilate that of the capitalist and the entrepreneur around the notion of risk-bearing. Yet confusion between the two prevents any understanding of the essence of ...
Economic Populism and Institutional Reform
1st Edition
By Emre Ünal
July 20, 2026
In response to the global crises in recent decades, many countries – both developed and developing economies – have resorted to populist forms of economic policy instead of undertaking meaningful institutional change. This book explores two forms of economic populism in particular (wage ...