Political Economy

With contributions from a galaxy of economists - including David Colander, Robin Hahnel, Yanis Varioufakis and Fred Lee - this book is an important read and an attempt to break down the varied barriers that have been erected to economic pluralism._x005F_x000D_  ..

An analysis of economic policy in Latin America. The text utilises six case studies, and features the economic policies of the 1990s, mathematical and statistical modelling, and a review of competing paradigms...

The key issue for current economic policy is to find a balance between the stabilisation of public finance and maintaining the momentum of long-term growth. This book argues that the reasons for the varied performances of the advanced economies lie in the economic policies which were introduced in t..

The key issue for current economic policy is to find a balance between the stabilisation of public finance and maintaining the momentum of long-term growth. This book argues that the reasons for the varied performances of the advanced economies lie in the economic policies which were introduced in t..

This book is a discourse on modelling Man in a social context. Its focus is on economic main-stream theory in its capacity to handle basic problems such as uncertainty, social dynamics and ethics. _x000D_..

This book is a discourse on modelling Man in a social context. Its focus is on economic main-stream theory in its capacity to handle basic problems such as uncertainty, social dynamics and ethics. _x005F_x000D_..

The full impact of austerity policies across Europe is still being assessed, but it is clear that their gendered impacts have been consistently severe, structural and manifold. They have also been, until now, under-researched and under-estimated. Economics and Austerity in Europe brings together the..

D’Ippoliti introduces the concept of diversity to summarise all differences that are of social origin and that a theory or model seeks to explain. This contrasts with the traditional concept of heterogeneity that instead refers to differences that are deemed to be exogenous of economic theory. In ap..

This book explores the concept termed by John Davis as ‘reverse imperialism’, whereby economics has been seen in recent years to have taken in elements from other disciplines. Economics and Other Disciplines sheds light on the current state and possible future development of economics by focusing on..

In this book, Manuel Branco demonstrates that economics is intrinsically opposed to the promotion of human rights, in other words it is uncovering economic interests behind the persistent denial of human rights, especially economic, social and cultural rights...

This book examines the treatment of culture and development in the discipline of economics, thereby filling a conspicuous gap in current literature. Economics has come a long way to join the ‘cultural turn’ that has swept the humanities and social sciences in the last half century. This volume ident..

Drawing on Aristotle, Kant, Hume, and others, this book conceptualizes the analysis of ethics and economic and social structures. The book first considers the key philosophical underpinnings and categories which frame the discussion of ethics in economic theory and then considers individual ethics, ..