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1. Order and Control in American Socio-Economic Thought

   Social Scientists and Progressive-Era Reform

   By Charles McCann

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   The Progressive Era is generally regarded as a period of extraordinary social, political, and economic change, affecting virtually every aspect of American life. In the last decades of the nineteenth century, American social scientists, drawing on their experiences with the German social welfare...

   Published January 19th 2012 by Routledge
2. Hahn and Economic Methodology

   By Thomas Boylan, Paschal O'Gorman

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Hahn on Methodology: The Quest for Understanding addresses two fundamental questions: (i) what is distinctive about economic theorising?; (ii) what is the cognitive value of the outcome of this activity of economic theorising, i.e. economic theory. We will argue that for Hahn, economic theorising...

   Published January 15th 2012 by Routledge
3. Work Time Regulation as Sustainable Full Employment Strategy

   The Social Effort Bargain

   By Robert LaJeunesse

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Published December 15th 2011 by Routledge
4. The Consumer, Credit and Neoliberalism

   Governing the Modern Economy

   By Christopher Payne

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book is an investigation into the economic policy formulation and practice of neoliberalism in Britain from the 1950s through to the financial crisis and economic downturn that began in 2007-8. It demonstrates that influential economists, such as F.A. Hayek and Milton Friedman, authors at key...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
5. Reconstructing Keynesian Macroeconomics Volume 1

   Partial Perspectives

   By Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Willi Semmler

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book represents the first of three volumes offering a complete reinterpretation and restructuring of Keynesian macroeconomics and a detailed investigation of the disequilibrium adjustment processes characterizing the financial, the goods and the labour markets and their interaction. It...

   Published October 19th 2011 by Routledge
6. Capitalism, Institutions, and Economic Development

   By Michael G. Heller

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Based on a timely reassessment of the classic arguments of Weber, Schumpeter, Hayek, Popper, and Parsons, this book reconceptualizes actually-existing capitalism. It proposes capitalism as an impersonal procedural solution to the problems of spontaneously coordinating public institutions that...

   Published September 30th 2011 by Routledge
7. Political Economy and Globalization

   By Richard Westra

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Based upon distinguishing capitalism from other economic systems, as well as analysis of capitalist change across its stages of development, Richard Westra argues that the economic tendencies we refer to as globalization constitute a world historic transition away from capitalism. Westra forcefully...

   Published September 30th 2011 by Routledge
8. Capitalist Diversity and Diversity within Capitalism

   Edited by Geoffrey Wood, Christel Lane

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   The economic crisis that began in 2008 has underscored the impact not only of embedded and assumed ways of managing the economy, but also that present circumstances are the product of a long period of experimentation and bounded diversity; it is understanding the nature of both that forms a central...

   Published September 11th 2011 by Routledge
9. Institutional Economics and National Competitiveness

   Edited by Young Back Choi

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This book offers a strong contribution to the growing field of institutional economics, going beyond the question of why institutions matter and examines the ways in which different types of institutions are conducive to the enhancement of competitiveness and economic development. Adopting a...

   Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge
10. Political Economy After Economics

    Scientific Method and Radical Imagination

    By David Laibman

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This re-incorporation of economics into political economy is one (small, but not insignificant) element in a larger project: to place all of the resources of present-day social-scientific research at the service of increasing democracy, in an ultimate direction toward socialism in the classic sense...

    Published July 28th 2011 by Routledge