Political Economy

This work studies Japan's balance between the USA and East Asia by focusing on its use of economic power - defense spending, consumption, and investment - to advance its political and strategic as well as economic interests...

A collection of critical Marxian analyses by Japanese economists assessing aspects of the Japanese economy. Considered to be an important contribution to Japanese economic literature, these opinions on Japanese capitalism have not been available in Engish until now...

A collection of critical Marxian analyses by Japanese economists assessing aspects of the Japanese economy. Considered to be an important contribution to Japanese economic literature, these opinions on Japanese capitalism have not been available in Engish until now...

This title was first published in 2002: By exploring Marxian value theory and its relevance to present issues of economic analysis, such as the circuit of social capital, the quantity theory of money, instability and economic crises, and economic exploitation and its ideological disguise, this volum..

Despite regularly invoking his name, experts continue to disagree about the content and meaning of Keynes’ great work: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money. This guidebook introduces readers to the three main tenets of the original text: critique, alternative foundations and model...

Provocative and reflective, this volume on the notion of knowledge and innovation in the business industry provides readers with a holistic approach to the subject of ‘knowledge’...

Provocative and reflective, this volume on the notion of knowledge and innovation in the business industry provides readers with a holistic approach to the subject of ‘knowledge’...

This book presents a broad, reflective survey of the "Amherst school" of non-determinist Marxist political economy: its elemental concepts, origins, and future prospects, and the pathways explored in its 40-year evolution. The volume’s original essays reflect the range of projects and perspectives t..

This book illustrates and discusses the major points of the economic theory of producer cooperatives, its evolution since the 1950s and links with Marxian theory. Most importantly, this book demonstrates that a system of producer cooperatives offers a wealth of advantages compared to capitalism. The..

In this book, apparently inexplicable shifts in the conventional wisdom and the accompanying policy paradigm are explored against the historical backdrop since the second industrial revolution. In this context, inequality, poverty, free market capitalism and the welfare state have interacted in an u..

This book draws on the work of Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault and the Amherst School, to construct the concept of a self-transparent and self-conscious human subject (Homo economicus) as the theoretical humanist core of the neoclassical tradition. Instead of identifying the emergent heterogeneity ..

This collection of essays offers an extensive critical review of the major contributions of key figures in contemporary heterodox economics, including comprehensive bibliographies of their writings and lists of vital secondary material. _x005F_x000D_ _x005F_x000D_  ..