Böcker i Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy-serien

This book argues that money originated as a bargaining counter in a system of money-bargaining, emerging almost seamlessly from barter-bargaining. This book will be of great interest to researchers in the history and origins of money, banking and economic theory more broadly.

Demonstrating that there are (superior) alternatives to the modern macroeconomic mainstream and its DSGE models, this book presents the cutting edge of in macroeconomic modelling, economic policy, and methodology from the perspective of heterodox economic thinking.

Bernard Schmitt's main original contributions concern the theories of value, profit, and capital, as well as his explanation of inflation, unemployment and international payments, unified as quantum macroeconomic analysis. This book expounds the key principles of quantum macroeconomic analysis as he conceived and developed them.

While acknowledging the significant contributions that can be made through commons-based peer production, this book provides a critical examination of the commons with the aim of contributing to their long-term sustainability. In particular, the book examines the relation of Blockchain to the commons.

This book explores America's decline as a global power, arguing that the implosion of Pax Americana was initiated by the process of globalization, preceding the collapse of the Soviet Union by nearly a decade. The era of Pax Americana, and with it American hegemony, is conclusively passed, and will not return in current global conditions.

Over the past few years, Marx's Capital has received renewed academic and popular attention. This volume is dedicated to the history of the making, the theoretical evaluation, and the analysis of the dissemination and reception of an almost unknown version of Capital: the French translation, published between 1872 and 1875.

Economic Growth and Inequality critically evaluates the economic literature on this question from a pragmatic perspective, seeking to reconcile those who regard economic liberties as a paramount value, and critics who object that prioritizing these liberties leads to inequitable outcomes.

This book argues that evolutionary economics must become evolutionary political economy. The book explores the policy implications of these innovative societies, where wealth is created but unequally distributed. The book is addressed to open-minded economists, social scientists, technologists and policy makers.

Modern Money and the Rise and Fall of Capitalist Finance examines the true nature of modern money and seeks ideas for an alternative economic system for a just society.

The economic process of financialization is defined by many as the development of the dependence and subordination of the productive sector to the financial sector.

This book expands upon a range of economic insights within the overall context of critical theory, particularly with respect to the question of socioeconomic inequalities, and presents an explanation of how critical theory provides a number of interesting perspectives for economists.

Drawing on more modern expressions of economic analysis, this book explores the interplay between wellbeing, nature and moral values in economics.

Recent evidence suggests that macroeconomic outcomes are inferior in countries operating under presidential regimes compared with those with parliaments. This book considers why presidential regimes, in particular, are so bad for the economy and contributes to literature on political economics, macroeconomics and forms of government.

Is socialism an objective development of capitalism? Everling argues that economic expansion can now best be secured by forms of development that take us beyond capitalism.

Aims to develop the logic underlying the connections between breaking the rules and making the rules. This book contains a variety of examples, including case studies on zero tolerance policies, the demise of the Soviet Union, and the transformation of firearm regulations in Britain and the US.

Written by a leading commentator, this book helps economists rethink the boundaries and methods of their discipline, allowing them to participate more fully in debates over humankind's present problems and the ways that they can be solved.

This book explores both the pros and cons of the multiplier from a strictly post-Keynesian - and Kaleckian - approach. It offers a lively discussion from a number of well-known post-Keynesians from a variety of perspectives.