Chester Lynne - The Routledge handook of heterodox economics: theorizing, analyzing, and transforming capitalism

The Routledge Handbook of Heterodox Economics presents a comprehensive overview of the latest work on economic theory and policy from a pluralistic heterodox perspective.

Contributions throughout the Handbook explore different theoretical perspectives including: Marxian-radical political economics; Post Keynesian-Sraffian economics; institutionalist-evolutionary economics; feminist economics; social economics; Rgulation theory; the Social Structure of Accumulation approach; and ecological economics. They explain the structural properties and dynamics of capitalism, as well as propose economic and social policies for the benefit of the majority of the population. This book aims, firstly, to provide realistic and coherent theoretical frameworks to understand the capitalist economy in a constructive and forward-looking manner. Secondly, it delineates the future directions, as well as the current state, of heterodox economics, and then provides both heat and light on controversial issues, drawing out the commonalities and differences among different heterodox economic approaches. The volume also envisions transformative economic and social policies for the majority of the population and explains why economics is, and should be treated as, a social science.

This Handbook will be of compelling interest to those, including students, who wish to learn about alternative economic theories and policies that are rarely found in conventional economics textbooks or discussed in the mainstream media, and to critical economists and other social scientists who are concerned with analyzing pressing socio-economic issues.

Tae-Hee Jo is Associate Professor in the Economics and Finance Department at The State University of New YorkBuffalo State, USA, and a former Editor of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter (200913). He has been working on heterodox microeconomic theory from institutionalist, Marxian, and Post Keynesian perspectives.

Lynne Chester is Associate Professor in the University of Sydneys Department of Political Economy, Australia. She is recognized as a leading Australian scholar in the empirical application of Rgulation theory. Her research focuses on a range of energy issues (affordability, security, markets, price formation, the environment) and the policy responses of capitalist economies through different institutional forms.

Carlo DIppoliti is Associate Professor of Economics at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He is the editor of PSL Quarterly Review and of Moneta e Credito , and his research focuses on the history of economic thought, feminist economics, and European political economy.

Theorizing, Analyzing, and Transforming Capitalism

Edited by Tae-Hee Jo , Lynne Chester , and Carlo D'Ippoliti

First published 2018
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Names: Jo, Tae-Hee, 1973 editor. | Chester, Lynne, editor. | D'Ippoliti, Carlo, editor.

Title: The Routledge handbook of heterodox economics / edited by Tae-Hee Jo, Lynne Chester, and Carlo D'Ippoliti.

Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017006638 | ISBN 9781138899940 (hardback) | ISBN 9781315707587 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Economics. | Schools of economics.

Classification: LCC HB75 .R67476 2017 | DDC 330.15dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017006638

ISBN: 978-1-138-89994-0 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-70758-7 (ebk)

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