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1. Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy

   Choices, Constraints and Opportunities in the Market Economy

   By Morris Altman

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book provides a theoretical framework to better understand how firms, economies and labor markets have evolved. This is done in a reader-friendly fashion, without complex mathematical arguments and proofs. Economic Growth and the High Wage Economy shows how high wage economies help make firms...

   Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. Full-Spectrum Economics

   Toward an Inclusive and Emancipatory Social Science

   By Christian Arnsperger

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Economics is essential in today’s world, and yet mainstream economists are increasingly under criticism for not taking into account sufficiently many dimensions of real life, such as political and moral values, human development, spirituality, and people’s widely shared aspiration to live more...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
3. Facts, Values and Objectivity in Economics

   Edited by José Castro Caldas, Vítor Neves

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Is Economics an ‘objective’ or ‘positive’ science, independent of ethical and political positions? The financial crisis that began in 2007 gave rise to renewed doubts regarding the ‘objectivity’ of economics and brought into the public arena a debate that was previously confined to academia. A...

   Published March 15th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Irreconcilable Inconsistencies of Neoclassical Macroeconomics

   A False Paradigm

   By John Weeks

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   In the course of this book it is argued that the loss of what is essentially "macro" in Keynes is the result of a preference for a form of equilibrium analysis that gives unqualified support to the ideology of free markets. In the case of Marx, his theory of exploitation and from this the stress on...

   Published February 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. The Political Economy of Putin’s Russia

   By Pekka Sutela

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book constitutes an up-to-date treatment of Russia’s economic development and economic policies since 2000, when Vladimir Putin became the President of Russia. After the slow decline and sudden collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia embarked upon a multi-faceted change. This included transition...

   Published February 16th 2012 by Routledge
6. Hahn and Economic Methodology

   By Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Hahn on Methodology: The Quest for Understanding addresses two fundamental questions: (i) what is distinctive about economic theorising?; (ii) what is the cognitive value of the outcome of this activity of economic theorising, i.e. economic theory. We will argue that for Hahn, economic theorising...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
7. Order and Control in American Socio-Economic Thought

   Social Scientists and Progressive-Era Reform

   By Charles McCann

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, American social scientists, drawing on their experiences with the German social welfare...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
8. Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy

   The Social Effort Bargain

   By Robert LaJeunesse

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
9. The Consumer, Credit and Neoliberalism

   Governing the Modern Economy

   By Christopher Payne

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in 2007-8. It demonstrates that influential economists, such as F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, authors at key...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
10. Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 1

    Partial Perspectives

    By Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Willi Semmler

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book represents the first of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction. It...

    Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge