Forthcoming Political Economy Books

Forthcoming Books

1. The Capability Approach

   Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region

   Edited by Francesca Panzironi, Katharine Gelber

   Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

   This book provides a unique laboratory of ‘capabilities in practice’ in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the application of the capability approach in development practice and public policy from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of...

   To Be Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
2. The Economics of Climate Change and the Change of Climate in Economics

   Edited by Kevin Maréchal

   Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics

   Climate change is without question the single most important issue the world faces over the next hundred years. The most recent scientific data have led to the conclusion that the globally averaged net effect of human activities since 1750 has been one of warming and that continued greenhouse gas...

   To Be Published May 28th 2012 by Routledge
3. The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America

   Impacts and Responses

   Edited by Michael Cohen

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   When the 2008 housing market bubble burst in the United States, a financial crisis rippled from the epi-center in the United States across borders into economies both near and far, causing persistent social and economic detriment in many countries. The Global Economic Crisis in Latin America:...

   To Be Published May 30th 2012 by Routledge
4. 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
5. Economic Reform Processes in South Asia

   Toward Policy Efficiency

   Edited by Philippa Dee

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia

   While South Asia’s economic reform initiatives of the last two decades were often born in crisis, this alone does not account for their occurrence. This book looks at the processes and institutional arrangements behind these reforms, and analyses what lessons can be learnt about how South Asia can...

   To Be Published May 31st 2012 by Routledge
6. The Political Economy of the European Social Model

   By Philip Whyman, Mark Baimbridge, Andrew Mullen

   Series: Routledge Studies in the European Economy

   This book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU), which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital, goods, services and people in 1957. Its central thesis is that, from a practical and theoretical point of view, such a basis is fundamentally at odds with the...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
7. Intellectual Property, Community Rights and Human Rights

   The Biological and Genetic Resources of Developing Countries

   By Marcelin Tonye Mahop

   Series: Routledge Research in Intellectual Property

   This book considers the issue of biodiversity in developing countries in relation to intellectual-property rights, community rights and human rights. Drawing together a number of case studies of developing countries rich in biological and genetic resources including India, South Africa and Brazil,...

   To Be Published June 4th 2012 by Routledge
8. Neoliberalism and the Law in Post Communist Transition

   The Evolving Role of Law in Russia’s Transition to Capitalism

   By Ioannis Glinavos

   This work examines ideas about the role of law and legal reform in the creation of market economies, focusing on the process of post communist transition in Russia. Processes of transition in Russia were guided by a set of very specific neoliberal ideas about the nature of markets and capitalism,...

   To Be Published June 5th 2012 by Routledge
9. Rediscovering Collective Bargaining

   Australia's Fair Work Act in International Perspective

   Edited by Breen Creighton, Anthony Forsyth

   Series: Routledge Studies in Employment and Work Relations in Context

   This book examines countries that have tried, with varying degrees of success, to use legislative strategies to encourage and support collective bargaining, including Australia’s Fair Work Act. It is the first major study of the operation and impact of the new collective bargaining framework...

   To Be Published June 10th 2012 by Routledge
10. The Global Political Economy of Trade Protectionism and Liberalization

    Trade Reform and Economic Adjustment in Textiles and Clothing

    By Tony Heron

    Series: Routledge/RIPE Studies in Global Political Economy

    Given the widely-accepted premise that free trade is the best means of maximising overall societal welfare, why has it proven so difficult to achieve in certain industries? This book tackles arguably the most perennial and deep-rooted of all questions in political economy, and questions the...

    To Be Published June 11th 2012 by Routledge