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 Structure and Operation of Modern Economies
1st Edition
By Alessandro Romagnoli
June 27, 2025
This book is about the economy rather than economics. It explores the structures, inner workings and problems of modern economies, showing how the organisations and networks that shape the structure of the economy are arranged to provide society with goods and services. At the centre of the ...
Conceptualising an Alternative Political Economy of Sustainability: The Contributions of Radical Ecology and Heterodox Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Arturo Hermann
June 26, 2025
Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability ― both as a concept and as a political objective. To that end, this book provides a far-reaching overview of the development of ...
The Power of Rankings in Economics and Research Organizations: Contributions to the Social Studies of Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Stephan Pühringer, Jens Maesse, Thierry Rossier
June 06, 2025
Discourses around research excellence and quality are predominant within the economic sciences, with various forms of ranking playing a central role. They make “excellence” in research and teaching visible, but they also create hierarchical orders between researchers, institutions, publication ...
Nature and Economic Society: A Classical-Keynesian Synthesis
1st Edition
By Tony Aspromourgos
May 27, 2025
This book focuses on the interrelationship between nature and the human economy. Building upon his decades of research into classical and Keynesian economics, Tony Aspromourgos here turns his attention to the interrelationship between nature and the human economy. The result is a tightly argued, ...
Political Economy of the Spanish Miracle: State, Labor and Capital, 1931–1973
1st Edition
By Diego Ayala
May 27, 2025
In the 1950s and 1960s, Spain underwent one of the most rapid processes of economic development the world had ever seen. Most existing analyses of this process explain the “Spanish Miracle” as a product of the unleashing of market forces and of changes in economic policy made by the Franco regime ...
Researching Poverty and Austerity: Theoretical Approaches, Methodologies and Policy Applications
1st Edition
Edited
By Caroline Moraes, Morven G. McEachern, Deirdre O'Loughlin
May 27, 2025
Poverty is a complex global challenge rooted in intertwined social, economic and political factors, which excludes people from participating fully in normalised social and market-based activities. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated poverty-related issues such as food insecurity, and growing ...
Alternative Currencies: A Critical Approach
1st Edition
By Louis Larue
May 06, 2025
A wide variety of new forms of money have been developed in recent decades as a challenge or complement to the official, dominant currencies. LETS, local currencies, carbon currencies, and Bitcoins are all examples of this new trend. These currencies are at the heart of a larger movement that ...
The Financial Foundations of Production and Uncertainty
1st Edition
By Andres F. Cantillo
April 14, 2025
Rejecting much of mainstream economic theory for being too passive, this book argues that the innovative and unpredictable nature of economic phenomena is better understood with analytical devices, which allow for more creative and participatory analysis. As is demonstrated, this has significant ...
Transformations of Contemporary Capitalism: The Second Industrial Divide and Flexible Specialisation
1st Edition
By David Evans
April 14, 2025
In recent decades, there has been many attempts to describe, explore, and explain the new ‘post-modern’ capitalism of the twenty-first century. In this context, this book looks at one of the most exciting strands of this research in the late twentieth century: the flexible specialisation research ...
Declining Profitability and the Evolution of the US Economy: A Classical Perspective
1st Edition
By Ascension Mejorado, Manuel Roman
January 30, 2025
The 1970s were a pivotal decade for the US economy: deindustrialization broke the power of the labor unions and made possible the redistribution of income in favor of corporate profits; globalization and offshore investments opened alternatives to domestic nonfinancial capital accumulation; ...
Socialist Economic Systems: 21st Century Pathways
1st Edition
By Steven Rosefielde
January 30, 2025
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 objective record of socialism’s promises and ...
The Meaning of Shared Value: New Perspective on Creating Shared Value
1st Edition
By Paolo Ricci, Patrick O'Sullivan, Floriana Fusco
December 19, 2024
The concept of Creating Shared Value (CSV) – creating 'economic' value in a way that also creates value for the whole of society – has risen in prominence as a corporate policy and a strategy in recent years, mainly for third sector or development organisations. However, while it has received ...