Political Economy

This book explores what is behind a faltering standard of living in the United States since the early 1980s and what can be done to restore it. Economics has traditionally equated economic growth with improvements in quality of life and the standard of living but this book questions that assumption...

This book explores what is behind a faltering standard of living in the United States since the early 1980s and what can be done to restore it. Economics has traditionally equated economic growth with improvements in quality of life and the standard of living but this book questions that assumption...

Although political rhetoric and public perception continue to assume that the United States is the very definition of a free market economy, a different system entirely has in actuality come to prominence over the past half century. James Angresano examines the characteristics of this Corporate Welf..

This collection, in honour of Takashi Negishi, analyzes his contributions to the history of economic theory. Economists paying tribute within this volume include Neri Salvadori, Laurence Moss and Joaquim Silvestre...

"Once-in-a-lifetime" financial crises have been a recurrent part of life in the last three decades. It is no longer possible to dismiss or ignore them as aberrations in an otherwise well-functioning system. Nor are they peculiar to recent times. Going back in history, asset price bubbles and bank-ru..

"Once-in-a-lifetime" financial crises have been a recurrent part of life in the last three decades. It is no longer possible to dismiss or ignore them as aberrations in an otherwise well-functioning system. Nor are they peculiar to recent times. Going back in history, asset price bubbles and bank-ru..

This book presents a social qua community history of heterodox economics.  The author provides the best and most thorough account of the rise of orthodoxy and the response of heterodoxy within economics...

This, the first comprehensive account of the subject, draws on an extensive range of historical sources to analyze the development of Russian and Soviet economic thought in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and ahead into the future...

First published in 1999. A work which employs the tools of law and economics to investigate the nature and organizational structure of criminal street gangs and to evaluate and suggest alternative policy responses...

Should the arts receive public support? Can the arts survive in a modern capitalist society? Can economics shed light on the nature of public support, and whether there is a rationale for public intervention? This book undertakes to examine these questions as it explores the ways government and publ..

It is becoming increasingly clear that a new economics is required for investigating modern dynamic economies and the coming social world. Important features of those economies, such as innovation, uncertainty and entrepreneurship, are usually considered capitalist features. This may have been true,..

It is becoming increasingly clear that a new economics is required for investigating modern dynamic economies and the coming social world. Important features of those economies, such as innovation, uncertainty and entrepreneurship, are usually considered capitalist features. This may have been true,..