1st Edition

Radical Political Economics Principles, Perspectives, and Post-Capitalist Futures

Edited By Mona Ali, Ann E. Davis Copyright 2025
332 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

332 Pages 22 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This collection of essays engages in the analysis of key concepts, concerns, and cutting-edge insights in radical political economy. Offering a robust critique of capitalist institutions as well as of mainstream economics, radical political economics reveals the structures and dynamics of global capitalism. The attention to method, ideology, and institutions differentiates it from mainstream... Read more

Part I: Principles of Radical Political Economics

 

1. Class Conflict

Michael Hillard and Richard McIntyre

 

2.Ideology and Radical Political Economy

Ann E. Davis

 

3. Using the Theory of Innovative Enterprise to Analyze US Corporate Capitalism

Willliam Lazonick

 

4. Forms of Capitalism

David Kotz

 

5. Financialization

Ramaa Vasudevan

 

6. Feminist Radical Political Economy

Smita Ramnarain

 

7. The Economies of Imperialism

Prabhat Patnaik

 

Part II: Issues and Debates in Radical Political Economics

 

8. Crises and Cycles in Capitalism

Michael Roberts

 

9. A Marxist-Feminist Perspective on Motherhood

Elaine Tontoh

 

10. Social Protection in Political Struggle

Barry Herman

 

11. Migration: Differentiated Mobility Under Capitalism

Smriti Rao

 

12. Development Assistance as Internationalization

Farwa Sial

 

13. Contemporary Trajectories of State Capitalism

Ilias Alami

 

14. Some Basic Elements of a Global Green New Deal

Robert Pollin

 

15. Socio-Historical Ontology, Explanations, and Empirical Approaches

Paulo L. dos Santos

 

Part III: Capitalist Futures

 

16. Democratic Planned Socialism: Moving Beyond Capitalism to Support and Promotes Human Development

Al Campbell

 

17. Worker Cooperatives and Post-Capitalism

Erik Olsen

 

18. Middle Way: Social Democracy as an Alternative to Laissez-Faire Capitalism

Geoffrey Schneider

 

19. Economic Development in the 21st Century

Jayati Ghosh and C.P. Chandrasekhar

 

20. Good Science, Bad Climate, Big Lies

Jason Moore & John Peter Antonacci

 

Index

Biography

Mona Ali is Associate Professor of Economics at the State University of New York. Her research on international political economy has been published in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the International Review of Applied Economics, and Géopolitique, Réseau, Énergie, Environnement, Nature (GREEN) among elsewhere. Her popular writing for Phenomenal World has been translated into four languages and featured in the Financial Times. She received her PhD from the New School for Social Research and she has served on the steering committee of Union for Radical Political Economics.

Ann E. Davis is Associate Professor of Economics (retired) at Marist College and served as chair of the Department of Accounting, Finance, and Economics, and chair of the Faculty. She has published articles in the Review of Radical Political Economics, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Critical Historical Studies, and Journal of Economic Issues. She has published four books and various book chapters and served in leadership roles in heterodox economic associations.