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1. Miracle for Whom?

   Chilean Workers Under Free Trade

   By Janine Berg

   Series: New Political Economy

   Miracle for Whom? offers a fresh and insightful perspective to the debate on rising income inequality in Chile, and on the broader question of how free trade affects the demand for workers in developing countries....

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Unions and Class Transformation

   The Case of the Broadway Musicians

   By Catherine P. Mulder

   Series: New Political Economy

   How can unions move from a defensive strategy to one of class transformation? Mulder demonstrates how the current union strategies of class blindness lead to weak and often unintended results. Unions, she argues, do not use their collective power for class transformation and union commentators/...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Rethinking Municipal Privatization

   By Oliver D. Cooke

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations—the privatization of New York City’s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the political and cultural opening for privatizations, which were justified on the basis of increasing efficiency. However, as Cooke...

   Published December 13th 2012 by Routledge
4. Encoding Capital

   The Political Economy of the Human Genome Project

   By Rodney Loeppky

   Series: New Political Economy

   Published October 28th 2012 by Routledge
5. Structuralism and Individualism in Economic Analysis

   The "Contractionary Devaluation Debate" in Development Economics

   By S. Charusheela

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book argues that the debates about the appropriate economic policies to follow in the developing world within the field of development economics are at heart debates about the appropriate ontology to ascribe to agents within the developing world....

   Published September 9th 2012 by Routledge
6. The African-Asian Divide

   Analyzing Institutions and Accumulation in Kenya

   By Paul Vandenberg

   Series: New Political Economy

   Why have Africans not gained a more dominant position in urban manufacturing in Kenya? This question is explored through an analysis of the institutions, both formal and informal, that have affected patterns of capital accumulation in Kenya by the African and Asian (Indian) communities. Using a new...

   Published July 26th 2012 by Routledge
7. Everyday Economic Practices

   The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices

   By Savinna Chowdhury

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold. She demonstrates why it is a misrepresentation to characterize all that is economic as "capitalism...

   Published May 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Prison Labor in the United States

   An Economic Analysis

   By Asatar Bair

   Series: New Political Economy

   This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that prison labor is best understood as a form of slavery, in which the labor-power of each inmate (though not their person) is owned by the Department of...

   Published April 9th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Political Economy of European Union Competition Policy

   A Case Study of the Telecommunications Industry

   By Tuna Baskoy

   Series: New Political Economy

   In the European Union (EU), competition policy occupies a central place amongst other EU public policies and is the first truly supranational public policy regulating market competition. One of the stated objectives of EU competition policy is to prevent excessive concentration of economic power in...

   Published February 23rd 2012 by Routledge
10. New Deal Banking Reforms and Keynesian Welfare State Capitalism

    By Ellen Russell

    Series: New Political Economy

    Russell provides a groundbreaking critique of the orthodox position on the nature of New Deal reforms as well as an innovative analysis of the unraveling of those reforms. Russell argues that the success of the New Deal banking reforms in the post-war period initially produced a "pax financus" in...

    Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge