Book Series in Economics
Economics as Social Theory
New & Published Titles:
From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics
The Shifting Boundaries between Economics and other Social Sciences
Is or has economics ever been the imperial social science? Could or should it ever be so? These are the central concerns of this book.…
read more2009 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42323-6 (Routledge)
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From Political Economy to Economics
Method, the social and the historical in the evolution of economic theory
Economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. So argue Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine in…
read more2008 | Paperback: 978-0-415-42321-2 (Routledge)
Speaking of Economics
How to Get in the Conversation
Making sense of economists and their world in a persuasive and entertaining style, Arjo Klamer, the author of a number of influential books including Conversation…
read more2007 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39511-3 (Routledge)
Markets, Deliberation and Environment
What is the source of our environmental problems? Why is there in modern societies a persistent tendency to environmental damage? From within neoclassical economic theory…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-39712-4 (Routledge)
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New Departures in Marxian Theory
Over the last twenty-five years, Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff have developed a groundbreaking interpretation of Marxian theory generally and of Marxian economics in particular.…
read more2006 | Paperback: 978-0-415-77026-2 (Routledge)
Transforming Economics
Perspectives on the Critical Realist Project
Economics has become polarised. On the one hand there is a body of economists who concern themselves with progressing their discipline via an increasing use… read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-36967-1 (Routledge)
The Evolution of Institutional Economics
This exciting new book from Geoffrey Hodgson is eagerly awaited by social scientists from many different backgrounds. This book charts the rise, fall and renewal…
read more2004 | Paperback: 978-0-415-32253-9 (Routledge)
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Postcolonialism Meets Economics
In the last half century, economics has taken over from anthropology the role of drawing the powerful conceptual worldviews that organize knowledge and inform policy… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28726-5 (Routledge)
The Philosophy of Keynes' Economics
Probability, Uncertainty and Convention
John Maynard Keynes is undoubtedly the most influential Western economist of the twentieth century. His emphasis on the nature and role of uncertainty in economic… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-31244-8 (Routledge)
Toward a Feminist Philosophy of Economics
Feminist economists have demonstrated that interrogating hierarchies based on gender, ethnicity, class and nation results in an economics that is biased and more faithful to… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-28388-5 (Routledge)
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Series Details:
Social Theory is experiencing something of a revival in Economics. Economists are again addressing issues as the relationship between agency and structure, between economy and the rest of society, and between Inquirer and the object of Inquiry. There is renewed interest on elaborating basic categories such as causation, competition, culture, discrimination, evolution, money, need, order, organization, power and probability. This series facilitates this revival.
Forthcoming Titles:
The Socioeconomics of Amartya Sen: On Freedom, Capability and Entitlement
By Des Gasper
To be published July 1st 2011
Development and Globalization: A Marxian Class Analysis
By David F. Ruccio
To be published September 28th 2010