POLITICAL ECONOMY: GENERAL
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Economic Theory and Social Change
Economics, Culture, and Development
Growth Theory
Problems and Revisions
Eiman Zein-Elabdin, Franklin and Marshall College, USA
Patricia Northover
Hasse Ekstedt, University of Gothenburg, Sweden and Angelo Fusari, ISAE, Rome This book models ’Man’ in a social context, offering a systematic critique of the mainstream methodology of economics and its axiomatic structure and developing an economic theory for a socially sustainable society. Selected Contents: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Methodological Problems of Current Social and Economic Theories 2.1. The Method of Social Theory: Current Equivocations and some Suggestions for a Shared Basic View 2.2. Homo Economicus versus Homo Politicus: The Economic Concept of Rationality Part 3: Social Dynamics and Values 3.1. Social Dynamics - Being and Doing 3.2. On the Matter of Time and Ethics Part 4: Growth and Development - Endogenous Processes and Structural Catastrophes 4.1. From Invisible Hand to Perpetum Mobile: Measuring Economic Growth 4.2. Uncertainty, Entrepreneurship and Innovation Part 5: Economic and Social Policy in a Changing World 5.1. Resource Allocation, Income and Wealth Distribution and Money 5.2. Toward a Non-capitalist Market System: Practical Suggestions for Curing the Ills of Our Economic System Part 6: Epilogue June 2010: 234 x 156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-56423-6: £90.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415564236
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This book examines the place of culture in different schools of thought within economics, borrowing some of the insights from postcolonial theory to call for a more profound rethinking of the place of culture in economic theory. Selected Contents: Preface 1. Introduction: The Problem of Culture 2. Two Contrasting Approaches to Culture in Economics: Neoclassical Economics, The Original Institutionalist School 3. Marxism: Can Class Survive Culture? 4. Feminist Economics: Devalued Femininity and Devalued Cultures 5. Culture in Development Economics 6. Africa between Culture and Development 7. Cultural Hybridity as a Theoretical Framework. Conclusion August 2010: 234 x 156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-55192-2: £80.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415551922
Paul Oslington, Australian Catholic University In this path breaking book Paul Oslington shows how theology shaped political economy in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Early political economists such as Adam Smith, William Paley, TR Malthus, Richard Whately and William Whewell extended the British scientific natural theology tradition of Bacon, Boyle, and Isaac Newton to the social world. This extension formed political economy as a discipline but also created tensions (especially the evolution of social institutions and theodicy) that eventually killed natural theology and separated economics from theology in mid-19th century Britain. The American story is different, with the migration across the Atlantic of a theological version of Adam Smith, an encounter with the social gospel movement, then the early 20th century separation of economics from theology. The book is essential reading for all concerned with the origins of economics, the meaning and purpose of economic activity, the role of religion in contemporary policy debates.
Drawing on recent developments in the philosophy of science, this book tackles the subject of growth theory, developing critical perspectives on neoclassical and evolutionary growth theory, while discussing UK industrial decline. Selected Contents: 1. Introduction Part 1: The Case Against Positivism 2. Explanation and Economics: The Case Against Deductivism 3. On Explanation, Agency and Economics: New Directions Part 2: The Explanatory Limits of Growth Discourses 4. Neo-Classical Growth Theory: Lakatosian Research Programmes? 5. Evolutionary Growth Theory? Part 3: Catching up and Falling Behind: The Conundrum of Development 6. ‘Thinking About Economic Growth’ 7. The ‘Myth’ of Development: PostDevelopment’s Post-Modern Hopes? 8. The Nadir of Development? 10. Conclusion June 2010: 234 x 156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-21277-9: £80.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415212779
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Full-Spectrum Economics
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Toward an Inclusive and Emancipatory Social Science
Hahn and Economic Methodology
Christian Arnsperger, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Edited by Thomas Boylan and Paschal O’Gorman, both at National University of Ireland, Galway
In his new book, Christian Arnsperger offers a philosophical critique of neoclassical and postneoclassical economics and offers a forward-looking, constructive alternative, here named ‘full-spectrum’ economics.
Economics and Theology
A Philosophical Perspective
Selected Contents: Foreword Ken Wilber 1. Introduction: Why Economics should go ’Full Spectrum’ Part 1: The Broadness of Knowledge 2. The Structure of Economic Knowledge 3. An Integral Approach: The Four Quadrants of Reality Part 2: Neoclassical Reductionism 4. Individualism, Intrumentalism and Equilibrium 5. The Political Philosophy of Macro-Management Part 3: PostNeoclassical Reductionism 6. Game Theory and Strategic Interaction 7. Complexity Economics and ’Out-ofEquilibrium’ Systems 8. Behavioral Economics, Neuroeconomics and the Experimental Approach Part 4: Beyond Reductionism: The Quest for Full-Spectrum Economics 9. Mainstream Economics: A Full-Spectrum Critique 10. Full-Spectrum Economics: A First Perspective 11. Paradigms, Quadrants, and Levels: The Toolbox of FullSpectrum Economics 12. Full-Spectrum Economics
This is the first book-length study of Hahn’s methodological writings, and is essential reading for any scholar with an interest in the philosophy of economics. Selected Contents: Introduction 1. Economic Methodology and Philosophy: Interactions and Influences 2. Hahn, Economics and Methodology: A Dangerous Liaison 3. Hahn’s Defence of Economic Theorizing 4. Hahn and Popper: Contested Commitments? 5. Hahn and Hausman on Neoclassical Economics 6. Hahn and Friedman: Economics Without Laws 7. Hahn and Kaldor: Axiomatisation Reconsidered 8. Challenges to Economic Methodology April 2010: 234 x 156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-21348-6: £80.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415213486
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Inequality and Power
December 2009: 234 x 156: 288pp Hb: 978-0-415-55547-0: £80.00
The Economics of Class
For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415555470
Edited by Eric A. Schutz, Rollins College, USA
June 2010: 234 x 156: 288pp Hb: 978-0-415-45481-0: £70.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415454810
Eric A Schutz argues that social power is a fundamental part of the story of rising economic inequality in these times and offers a theoretically focused discussion on the role of social power in comprehending economic inequality. Selected Contents: 1. Talking about Inequality 2. Just how Bad is it? 3. People make Their Own Choices 4. Opportunity Matters 5. Power and Class 6. Economic Class in America Today 7. Class, Culture and Politics 8. What’s Wrong with Economic Inequality? 9. Regress or Progress? November 2010: 234 x 156: 256pp Hb: 978-0-415-55480-0: £80.00 For more information, visit: www.routledge.com/9780415554800
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