These three volumes offer an overview of Marxian political economy, with contributions by critics, supporters and those of a more neutral disposition. The first volume illustrates the breadth of Marx’s concern with history, politics and society, while the second and third volumes focus more...

Capital flight – the unrecorded export of capital from developing countries – often represents a significant cost for developing countries. It also poses a puzzle for standard economic theory, which would predict that poorer countries be importers of capital due to its scarcity. This...

Economic Development and Political Reform addresses critical trends in the Middle Eastern political economy in the 1980s and 1990s and builds upon the cross-regional political science literature concerning political and economic reforms in the developing world. The book argues that external...

Heterodox Economic Theories begins with a paper by Ian Steedman on Sraffian economics and the capital controversy. This is followed by papers on radical economics by Michael Reich and Marx’s economic analysis by Fred Moseley. Professor Moseley has also written an extensive introduction to the...

The existing economic growth literature has provided substantial coverage of the impact of various aspects of institutions on economic growth. This timely study goes beyond a general statement on the critical role they play, and addresses why and how institutions – specifically political...

David Gordon was a pioneer in the burgeoning field of institutional growth economics, introducing the concept of a ‘social structure of accumulation’, and richly illustrating its usefulness with both econometric and historical studies. Gordon also helped to develop the theory of segmented...

Behavioural Economics is a relatively new school of economic thought and can encompass a number of strands such as ‘new institutional/transaction cost economics’, economic psychology and psychological economics, consumer behaviour and decision theory. The papers presented here reveal...

This major work provides an assessment of Adolf Lowe’s work and explores areas for future research in relation to his important contribution to economics, in particular his belief that economics is inseparable from social inquiry.

This important and timely two-volume collection presents the key issues and processes that surround recent large-scale financial crises – in Asia, Latin America, and elsewhere – and identifies procedures that will help to avoid and manage crises. The articles are drawn from leading journals...