Economics: Economic Theory & Philosophy

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 – 2019-06-01 
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By James Crotty

Keynes is one of the most important and influential economists who ever lived. It is almost universally believed that Keynes wrote his magnum opus, The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money to save capitalism from the socialist, communist, and fascist forces that were rising up during…

Paperback – 2019-05-21 
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Economics as Social Theory

By Gustavo Rinaldi

Certain key economic decisions taken by organisations and indeed countries are often not made by economists but by businessmen, trade unionists, politicians and policy-makers. Those who employ people, those who represent workers, those who make laws and those who elect them need economics but may…

Paperback – 2019-05-16 
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By William A. Jackson

Defining markets has never been an easy task. Despite their importance for economic theory and practice, they are hard to pin down as a concept and economists have tended to adopt simplified axiomatic models or rely on piecemeal case studies. This book argues that an extended range of theory,…

Paperback – 2019-05-15 
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Economics as Social Theory

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

Edited by Jahel Queralt, Bas van der Vossen

The status of economic liberties remains a serious lacuna in the theory and practice of human rights. Should a minimally just society protect the freedoms to sell, save, profit and invest? Is being prohibited to run a business a human rights violation? While these liberties enjoy virtually no…

Hardback – 2019-05-03 
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Political Philosophy for the Real World

Edited by David B. Hollander, Thomas R. Blanton IV, John T. Fitzgerald

Recent work on the ancient economy has tended to concentrate on market exchange, but other forces also caused goods to change hands. Such nonmarket transfers ranged from small private gifts to the wholesale confiscation of cities, lands, and their peoples. The papers presented in this volume…

Hardback – 2019-05-03 
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Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies

Edited by Richard Westra, Robert Albritton, Seongjin Jeong

In this age of overlapping and mutually reinforcing deep global crises (financial convulsions, global warming, mass migrations, militarism, inequality, selfish nation-states, etc.), there needs to be more realistic dialogue about radical alternatives to the status quo. Most literature produced…

Paperback – 2019-04-29 
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By Giulio Palermo

In the economic debate, power is defined and studied mainly as an interpersonal relation occurring out of perfect competition. This is a consequence of the combination of methodological individualism and the assumption of competition as a natural and everlasting coordinating mechanism, operating…

Paperback – 2019-04-29 
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By Andrea Carrera

Based on the observation of economic reality, this book provides for the foundations of a new structure of national payment systems. Specifically to this end, a rigorous accounting for money transactions, savings, and invested profit is suggested, with a major aim to settle sustainable lending…

Hardback – 2019-04-25 
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Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Edited by Glenville Jenkins, Michael Poole

Originally published in 1990. Why has the pattern of ownership in British industry changed so dramatically in recent years? This high-level and wide-ranging discussion on the developments of the industrial scene in Britain investigates why such changes have occurred, and explores their impact on…

Paperback – 2019-04-19 
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