Economics: Economic Theory & Philosophy

Edited by Cheng Lin, Terry Peach, Fang Wang

This book brings together a group of leading scholars from China and the West to provide an unprecedented assessment of the nature, origins and historical influence of the Political Economy that developed during the Han dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). Following an Introduction that sets out the…

Hardback – 2019-07-15 
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Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

Edited by Freddy Cante, Wanda Tatiana Torres

Nonviolent Political Economy offers a set of theoretical solutions and practical guidelines to build an economy of nonviolence which implies a social state of peacefulness, involving minimal violence and minimal destruction of nature. The book provides renewed reflections on heterodox economics,…

Hardback – 2019-07-15 
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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

By Julian F. Müller

This book poses the question, how can we organize the society in such a way that our disagreement about facts and norms works to the benefit of everyone? In response, it makes the argument for polycentric democracy, a political arrangement consisting of various political units that enjoy different…

Hardback – 2019-07-01 
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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Edited by Wilfred Dolfsma, D. Wade Hands, Robert McMaster

Mainstream economics has changed during the last two decades, but it continues to be under pressure from a variety of different directions. Recent criticisms have rekindled interest in a number of areas of scholarly inquiry that were frequently ignored by mainstream economic theory and practice…

Hardback – 2019-06-30 
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By James C.W. Ahiakpor

Modern macroeconomics is in a stalemate, with seven schools of thought attempting to explain the workings of a monetary economy and to derive policies that promote economic growth with price level stability. This book pinpoints as the source of this confusion errors made by Keynes in his reading…

Hardback – 2019-06-27 
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Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

By Andrea Fumagalli, Alfonso Giuliani, Stefano Lucarelli, Carlo Vercellone

This book deals with the transformations of both accumulation process and labour in the transition from a Fordist to a cognitive capitalism paradigm, with specific regard to Western economies. It outlines the advent, after industrial capitalism, of a new phase of the capitalist system in which the…

Hardback – 2019-06-24 
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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

By Keren Wang

This book examines the subtle ways in which rhetorics of sacrifice have been re-appropriated into the workings of the global political economy in the 21st Century. It presents an in-depth analysis of the ways in which ritual practices are deployed, under a diverse set of political and legal…

Hardback – 2019-06-24 
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Globalization: Law and Policy

By Roger McCain

Although it was an important specialization in economics in the mid-twentieth century, welfare economics has received less attention in the twenty-first century. This book explores the history of welfare economics, with a view to explaining its rise and subsequent decline. Drawing on both…

Hardback – 2019-06-17 
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Routledge Advances in Social Economics

By Adem Yavuz Elveren

The Economics of Military Spending offers a comprehensive analysis of the effect of military expenditures on the economy. It is the first book to provide both a theoretical and empirical investigation of how military spending affects the profit rate, a key indicator of the health of a capitalist…

Hardback – 2019-06-06 
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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

By Joost Hengstmengel

In this important volume, Hengstmengel examines the doctrine of divine providence and how it served as explanation and justification in economic debates in the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries throughout Western Europe. The author discusses five different areas in which God was…

Hardback – 2019-06-03 
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Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

By Pietro Frigato, Francisco J. Santos Arteaga

This book considers Thorstein Veblen’s central preoccupation with the dark places of business enterprise, an integral part of the old institutional economics. Combining the contributions made by Karl William Kapp and Philip Mirowski, it proposes the systematization of an adjourned institutional…

Hardback – 2019-05-15 
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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Edited by Wilfred Dolfsma, Ioana Negru

Economists' role in society has always been an uneasy one, and in recent years the ethicality of the profession and its practitioners has been questioned more than ever. This collection of essays is the first to investigate the multifaceted nature of what forms economists' ethical and economic…

Hardback – 2019-05-08 
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SCEME Studies in Economic Methodology