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Forthcoming Economic Theory & Philosophy Books

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Forthcoming Books

  1. Social Costs Today

    Institutional Analyses of the Present Crises

    Edited by Wolfram Elsner, Pietro Frigato, Paolo Ramazzotti

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book deals with the current crises from a somewhat different the usual perspectives. It claims that causes and policy implications of these crises cannot be properly assessed by focusing on allocative efficiency or income growth alone; it requires a more general approach, based on social costs...

    To Be Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge

  2. Multinationals and World Trade

    Vertical Integration and the Division of Labour in World Industries

    By Mark Casson

    First published in 1986, this work reports the results of the Leverhulme project on mulitnationals and intermediate product trade based at the University of Reading during the academic year 1982/3. Chapter 1 summarises the main results of this project. Part I focusses upon the...

    To Be Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge

  3. Subjectivism and Objectivism in the History of Economic Thought

    Edited by Kiichiro Yagi, Yukihiro Ikeda

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    This book investigates the tensions between subjectivism and objectivism in the history of economics. The book looks at the works of Adam Smith, Carl Menger, Leon Walras, William Stanley Jevons, Oskar Morgenstern, Ludwig Mises, Piero Sraffa, and so on. The book highlights the...

    To Be Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge

  4. Organizations, Individualism and Economic Theory

    By Maria Brouwer

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    Most economic theory is based on the assumption that economies grow in a linear fashion. Recessions, depressions and (financial) crises are explained by policy mistakes. However, economic development has historically been uneven, and this state of affairs continues today. This book argues that...

    To Be Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge

  5. A Biobibliographical Dictionary of Russian and Soviet Economists

    By Robert Campbell

    Despite the restrictions on their work and actions, the economists of the Soviet period produced a great deal of bold and important work. With the erosion of the old Stalinist controls, economists in the Soviet Union themselves became very interested in the history of their profession, not least in...

    To Be Published June 20th 2012 by Routledge

  6. Confessions of an Economic Heretic (Routledge Revivals)

    By J. A. Hobson

    First published in 1938 this Routledge Revival is a reissue of the autobiography of influential economist J. A. Hobson. A comprehensive work, it details many aspects of his life including his background, influences, ethicical principles, philosophy and religion. In a life...

    To Be Published June 29th 2012 by Routledge

  7. Inequality and Power

    The Economics of Class

    By Eric A. Schutz

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    This book is about the causes and consequences of economic inequality in the advanced market economies of today. It is commonplace that in market systems people choose their own individual economic destinies, but of course the choices people make are importantly determined by the alternatives...

    To Be Published June 29th 2012 by Routledge

  8. Marxist Political Economy

    Essays in Retrieval: Selected Works of Geoff Pilling

    By Geoff Pilling

    Edited by Doria Pilling

    Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

    Geoff Pilling’s work shows that Marxist theory is relevant to those struggling to understand the problems of capitalist society today, and that the work not only of Marx and Engels but that of later Marxist theorists, including Lenin is worth studying. It also shows that to understand the problems...

    To Be Published July 5th 2012 by Routledge

  9. Vulnerable People, Vulnerable States

    Redefining the Development Challenge

    By Daniel Bromley, Glen Anderson

    Series: Priorities for Development Economics

    Over five decades of economic and technical assistance to the countries of Africa and the Middle East have failed to improve the life prospects for over 1.4 billion people who remain vulnerable. Billions of dollars have been spent on such assistance and yet little progress has been made....

    To Be Published July 5th 2012 by Routledge

  10. Economics, Sustainability, and Democracy

    Economics in the Era of Climate Change

    By Christopher Nobbs

    Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

    How should we conduct economics in an era of climate change, natural resource depletion and population increase? These issues are systemic, and involve great uncertainties and long time horizons. This book contends that the free-market economics that has dominated capitalist democracies in recent...

    To Be Published July 8th 2012 by Routledge