Political Economy Books

New and Published Books

1. The Fragmented World

   Competing Perspectives on Trade, Money and Crisis

   By Chris Edwards

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   This comprehensive textbook, first published in 1985, on the world economic, written specifically for non-specialists, compares neo-classical, neo-Ricardian and Marxist theories and policies in international economics. Theories of trade and money, and issues such as international debt crisis, the...

   Published May 13th 2015 by Routledge
2. U.S. Energy R & D Policy

   The Role of Economics

   By John E. Tilton

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   During the past few decades there has been an advance in the research and development of solving the issue of declining energy resources. Funding by the U.S. government into energy research has risen steeply. Because of the growing importance of research and development in this field of research,...

   Published May 13th 2015 by Routledge
3. Making Governments Accountable

   The Role of Public Accounts Committees and National Audit Offices

   Edited by Zahirul Hoque

   Series: Routledge Critical Studies in Public Management

   Over the past two decades, there has been a paradigm shift in public administration and public sector accounting around the world, with increasing emphasis on good governance and accountability processes for government entities. This is all driven both by economic rationalism, and by changing...

   Published May 12th 2015 by Routledge
4. Decisions: Risk and Reward

   By Johnnie E.V. Johnson, Alistair Bruce

   Series: Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks

   In recent years leading figures in a variety of fields - political, financial, medical, and organizational - have become acutely aware of the need to effectively incorporate aspects of risk into their decision-making. This book addresses a wide range of contemporary issues in decision research,...

   Published May 8th 2015 by Routledge
5. Editing Economics

   Essays in Honour of Mark Perlman

   Edited by Professor Geoffrey Harcourt, Hank Lim, Ungsuh K. Park

   Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

   Mark Perlman was the founding editor of the Journal of Economic Literature and responsible for issues from 1969 until 1980 when he retired. He has also written and edited a number of books and articles, concentrating on aspects of the labour market, population growth, health economics, the...

   Published May 8th 2015 by Routledge
6. The Robert Hall Diaries 1947-1953 (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Alec Cairncross

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service...

   Published May 5th 2015 by Routledge
7. The Robert Hall Diaries 1954-1961 (Routledge Revivals)

   Edited by Alec Cairncross

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Lord Roberthall was economic adviser to a succession of Labour and Conservative governments from 1947 to 1961. During that time, he served under eight Chancellors and exercised more influence on economic policy than perhaps any other official. Fortunately – though it was contrary to Civil Service...

   Published May 5th 2015 by Routledge
8. Alternative Economic Indicators (Routledge Revivals)

   By Victor Anderson

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   The main objective of politicians is to maximise economic growth, which heavily drives political policy and decision-making. Critics of the maximisation of growth as the central aim of economic policy have argued that growth in itself is not necessarily a good thing, particularly for the...

   Published May 5th 2015 by Routledge
9. The Scourge of Europe (Routledge Revivals)

   The Public Debt Described, Explained, and Historically Depicted

   By L. V. Birck

   Series: Routledge Revivals

   Written during the early 1920s, at a time when Europe was still recovering from the catastrophe of the First World War, L.V. Birck’s The Scourge of Europe examines the economic issues surrounding the existence of public debt, its history, and possible approaches to problems associated with public...

   Published May 5th 2015 by Routledge
10. Bolshevism at a Deadlock (Routledge Revivals)

    By Karl Kautsky

    Series: Routledge Revivals

    Bolshevism at a Deadlock was written Karl Kautsky, one of the leading Marxist intellectuals of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, in response to the catastrophic failures of Stalin’s first Five Year Plan, which was intended to raise Russian industry and productivity to equal that of...

    Published May 5th 2015 by Routledge