Books in the Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy series

Economies of Death: Economic Logics of Killable Life and Grievable Death examines the economic logic involved in determining whose lives and deaths come to matter and why. Drawing from eight distinct case studies focused on the killability and grievability of certain humans, animals, and environmental systems, this book advances an intersectional theory of economies of death.

Collected here are wide-ranging contributions to economics in general, and to post-Keynesian economics in particular by leading economists.

This volume commemorates a decade of the 'Malvern Conference'. Written by economists for economists, in celebration of some of the best minds of this century.

In recent years there has been increasing discontent with the abstract nature of mainstream economics. The book explores the ways in which economics might be reconnected, both with the real world and with other disciplines.

This work explores major methodological issues in the area of radical subjectivism and includes contributions from Jorg Bibow, Peter Boettke, Maurizio Caserta, Steven Horwitz, Brian J. Loasby, Steven Parsons, Steve Sullivan and Carlo Zappia.

Structural Analysis and the Process of Economic Development presents a detailed analysis of the trajectory of Swedish economic change since the nineteenth century. The emergence of structural analysis in economic research is reviewed, as well as a chapter devoted to development blocks, a key concept that was outlined in the 1940s and that has much in common with the more recent notions `techno-economic paradigms¿ and `general-purpose technologies¿. Structural analysis and the major contributions by Schön are introduced in this book.

This collection of contributed work is concerned mainly with developments in the neo-classical tradition of political economics, and examines the role played by rational choice in the decision-making processes of firms and the state.

This book provides the basic knowledge of Japanese contributions in political economy and ongoing research agenda such as the pursuit of theoretical consistency in Marxian economics by Uno School. The themes include: the broader tendencies in international capitalism and how past patterns of uneven development are now changing; the role of international finance in affecting both national and international growth and employment patterns; analysis of recent growth patterns in Asia; the specific issue emerging within the Asian region and the implications for economics, social change and geopolitics.

This book provides a timely intervention, offering much needed scrutiny of the ideologies, policies and practices that enable the troubling, unparalleled and seemingly unbridled growth of immigration detention around the world. An international collection of scholars provide crucial new insights into immigration detention recounting at close range how detention¿s effects ricochet from personal and everyday experiences to broader political-economic, social and cultural spheres.

Neoliberalism and the Moral Economy of Fraud shows specifically how these policies, reforms, ideas, social relations and practices that are described as `neo-liberal¿ have encouraged and rendered (more) dominant particular values and morals, shaping a type of socio-cultural change across the world that is conducive to fraud. This book investigates these moral worlds of fraud in different settings across the world, and shows how contemporary fraud is not the outcome of a few `bad apples¿.

The recent economic events driven by the great financial crisis of 2007-08 has challenged some "dogma", highlighting various limits and drawbacks of current paradigms. The crisis showed the limitations of monetary policy and led to a revaluation of what levels of public debt can be considered safe. This volume aims to refresh the debate on some important long-run macroeconomic issues from new and fresh perspectives.

This book stretches far beyond the sharing economy as it is popularly defined, and explores the complex intersections of `sharing¿ and `the economy¿, and how a better understanding of these relationships might help us address the multiple crises that confront contemporary societies. The contributors to this book explore a wide diversity of sharing systems and practices from various empirical case studies, ranging from hospitality to seed-swapping, and from indigenous land rights to alcohol consumption. In each chapter, a different crisis or vulnerability frames and shapes the study, allowing contributors to unpick the ways in which crisis and sharing relate to one another in real life.

Quantum Macroeconomics presents a new paradigm in macroeconomic analysis initiated by Bernard Schmitt. It explains the historical origin, the analytical contents, and the actual relevance of this new paradigm, with respect to current major economic issues at national and international level. These issues concern both advanced and emerging market economies, referring to inflation, unemployment, financial instability, and economic crises.

This book provides a detailed analysis and counter-poses alternative Neo-Marxist "unequal exchange" foundational models of global trade and finance. In the first part of the book the three core free trade models are respectively demonstrated to be: overdetermined, inapplicable, and infeasible. In the second part of the book unequal exchange analyses of global trade are shown to provide logically coherent and useful insights into global trade and finance. In the third and final part of the book, this unequal exchange perspective is used, within a general "Demand and Cost" setting to develop a set of global managed trade principles for a more equitable and sustainable world trade regime.