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The Political Economy of Central Asia
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Central Asian republics are still coming to terms with their post-communist economies, their role in the region and the wider world, and their needs for identity, governance and growth. The Political Economy of Central Asia is an original study addressing...
To Be Published December 30th 2013 by Routledge
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East Asian Transformation
On the Political Economy of Dynamism, Governance and Crisis
From the re-emergence of Japan as an industrial power in the 1950s through to the contemporary rise of China as a potential economic and political behemoth, the story of East Asian development has been central to any serious analysis of the dynamics and trajectory of the global political economy....
Published February 9th 2011 by Routledge
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The Political Economy of Africa
The Political Economy of Africa addresses the real possibilities for African development in the coming decades when seen in the light of the continent’s economic performance over the last half-century. This involves an effort to emancipate our thinking from the grip of western economic models that...
Published May 10th 2010 by Routledge
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Gender and the Contours of Precarious Employment
Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics
Precarious employment presents a monumental challenge to the social, economic, and political stability of labour markets in industrialized societies and there is widespread consensus that its growth is contributing to a series of common social inequalities, especially along the lines of gender and...
Published July 21st 2009 by Routledge
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Beyond Western Economics
Remembering Other Economic Cultures
This book combines intellectual history with contemporary events to offer a critique of mainstream economic thought and its neoliberal policy incarnation in global capitalism. The critique operates both theoretically, at the level of metaphysics and the philosophy of science, and concretely, in...
Published May 11th 2009 by Routledge
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From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics
The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences
Series: Economics as Social Theory
Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book. It involves a critical reflection on the process of how economics became the way it is, in terms of a narrow and intolerant orthodoxy, that has, nonetheless,...
Published April 8th 2009 by Routledge
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From Political Economy to Economics
Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory
Series: Economics as Social Theory
Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in this new major work of critical recollection. The authors show how economics was once rich, diverse, multidimensional...
Published October 27th 2008 by Routledge
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