Book Series in Economics
New Political Economy
New & Published Titles:
Market Sense
Toward a New Economics of Markets and Society
This book concentrates upon the historic associations of the marketplace in the work of Aristotle, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and demonstrates how what markets were… read moreJune 2010 | Paperback: 978-0-415-88408-2 (Routledge)
Worker Identity, Agency and Economic Development
Women's empowerment in the Indian informal economy
More than nine out of every ten working women in India are employed in the informal economy, unprotected by labour laws and excluded from basic…
read moreJune 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-56609-4 (Routledge)
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Unions and Class Transformation
The Case of the Broadway Musicians
How can unions move from a defensive strategy to one of class transformation? Mulder demonstrates how the current union strategies of class blindness lead to…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99616-7 (Routledge)

Discipline in the Global Economy?
International Finance and the End of Liberalism
In Discipline in the Global Economy, Jakob Vestergaard investigates the currently prevailing regulation of international finance, launched in response to the financial crises of the…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99031-8 (Routledge)
Labor, Industry, and Regulation during the Progressive Era
The Progressive Era was among the most volatile times for the economy and labor in American History. Daniel E. Saros explores the institutional and economic…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-99679-2 (Routledge)
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The Political Economy of European Union Competition Policy
A Case Study of the Telecommunications Industry
In the European Union (EU), competition policy occupies a central place amongst other EU public policies and is the first truly supranational public policy regulating…
read more2008 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96525-5 (Routledge)
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Rethinking Municipal Privatization
This book examines one of the most high-profile municipal privatizations—the privatization of New York City’s Central Park. The fiscal crisis of the 1970s established the…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96209-4 (Routledge)

New Deal Banking Reforms and Keynesian Welfare State Capitalism
Russell provides a groundbreaking critique of the orthodox position on the nature of New Deal reforms as well as an innovative analysis of the unraveling…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95661-1 (Routledge)
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Prison Labor in the United States
An Economic Analysis
This book is the only comprehensive analysis of contemporary prison labor in the United States. In it, the author makes the provocative claim that prison…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-96154-7 (Routledge)
Everyday Economic Practices
The 'Hidden Transcripts' of Egyptian Voices
This book brings to the forefront the significance of local everyday economic practices to development policymaking. Chowdhury's objective in unearthing these diverse activities is two-fold.…
read more2007 | Hardback: 978-0-415-95552-2 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Seeking Sustainability: On the prospect of an ecological liberalism
By G. J. Paton
To be published November 29th 2010
