Economic Theory & Philosophy Books

New and Published Books

1. Non-Mainstream Dimensions of Global Political Economy

   Essays in Honour of Sunanda Sen

   Edited by Byasdeb Dasgupta

   The book is a collection of essays written by scholars of global repute in honour of Professor Sunanda Sen. Each paper is well-researched and offers a new dimension to the understanding of the current global crisis, finance and labour including the epistemological viewpoints regarding the current...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
2. Social Innovation

   New Forms of Organisation in Knowledge–Based Societies

   Edited by Carmen Ruiz Viñals, Carmen Parra Rodríguez

   Series: Routledge/Lisbon Civic Forum Studies in Innovation

   'Social innovation’ can be simply defined as the new ideas and initiatives that make it possible to meet our society’s challenges in areas such as the environment, education, employment, culture, health and economic development. It is currently becoming increasingly important as a central concept...

   Published May 20th 2013 by Routledge
3. Marx and Living Labour

   By Laurent Baronian

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   From his early economic works on, Marx conceived the labour of any kind of society as a set of production activities and analysed the historical modes of production as specific ways of distributing and exchanging these activities. Political economy on the contrary considers the labour...

   Published May 15th 2013 by Routledge
4. Interdisciplinary Economics

   Kenneth E. Boulding’s Engagement in the Sciences

   Edited by Wilfred Dolfsma, Stefan Kesting

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   Kenneth Boulding was a prolific writer across so many different fields that not only is he often much referred to and cited, he is considered a core member of many of these fields. Boulding is the quintessential interdisciplinary scholar. He died in 1993, but he has left a legacy in economics,...

   Published May 8th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Origins of Economic Thought in Modern Japan

   By Chuhei Sugiyama

   By throwing light on economic thought in the period of the Japanese Enlightenment, this book will make clear what led to the institutionalization of business and economic education, the birth of the pioneer business enterprise and of serious economic journalism and the reasons behind the success of...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
6. Miraculous Growth and Stagnation in Post-War Japan

   Edited by Koichi Hamada, Keijiro Otsuka, Gustav Ranis, Ken Togo

   Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy

   This volume examines different aspects of the Japanese experience in a comparative context. There is much here of relevance to contemporary developing countries anxious to initiate the experience of miraculous growth and anxious to avoid the subsequent stagnation. Such issues of the role of...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
7. Uncertainty in Economic Theory

   Edited by Itzhak Gilboa

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   This volume brings together important papers, coupled with new introductions, in the massively influential area of uncertainty in economic theory. Seminal papers are available together for the first time in book format, with new introductions and under the steely editorship of Itzhak Gilboa - this...

   Published May 2nd 2013 by Routledge
8. A Microeconomics Reader

   Edited by Tran Huu Dung

   This book draws together the key contributions to the major areas of microeconomic theory from the last few decades. It is intended to provide both undergraduate and graduate students with an essential guide to the current state of the discipline. The articles have been carefully selected not only...

   Published May 1st 2013 by Routledge
9. Keynes and Friedman on Laissez-Faire and Planning

   ‘Where to draw the line?’

   By Sylvie Rivot

   Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

   The 2008 crisis has revived debates on the relevance of laissez-faire, and thus on the role of the State in a modern economy. This volume offers a new exploration of the writings of Keynes and Friedman on this topic, highlighting not only the clear points of opposition between them, but also the...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
10. Monetary Policy Rule in Theory and Practice

    Facing the Internal vs External Stability Dilemma

    By Nicolas Barbaroux

    Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking

    This new volume sheds new light on current monetary issues, in particular the debate on monetary policy making, by blending theoretical economic analysis, history of economics, and historical case studies. A discretionary monetary policy refers to cases in which the central bank is free to change...

    Published April 22nd 2013 by Routledge