This book is a major contribution to the study of political economy. With chapters ranging from the origins of political economy to its most exciting research fields, this handbook provides a reassessment of political economy as it stands today, whilst boldly gesturing to where it might head in...

The 1930s, characterised by repercussions from World War I and the Great Depression, was an era of populism, nationalism, protectionism, government intervention and attempts to create planned economies. The perceived need for economic planning emerged in Sweden in part due to the increasing...

Chapter 1 What Could Be the Contents of Adam Smith’s Third Book -- Chapter 2 The Contributions and Deficiencies of Keynesian Economics -- Chapter 3 Scarcity and Generation of Resources -- Chapter 4 The Dual Attributes of Government -- Chapter 5 Regional Government Competition -- Chapter 6...

1. Introduction -- 2. Landscape of the Metaeconomics Framework and Dual Interest Theory -- 3. Drifting Isles and Re-Integration on the Metaeconomics Continent -- 4. Formal Metaeconomics: Recycling Choices- 5. Metaeconomics as Behavioral Economics and the Focus on Happiness -- 6. Elections...

1. Introduction -- 2. Weaknesses in Economics and Economic Education -- 3. Basics of Political Economy -- 4. Modeling the Image of Man -- 5. The Functioning of Market and Competition -- 6. Theory of Economic Systems -- 7. Market Failure -- 8. Political Failure -- 9. Competition Policy -- 10....

1. Growing Up -- 2. Uppsala -- 3. Doctor -- 4. After the Dissertation -- 5. Essays -- 6. The Hunt for a Chair -- 7. The Housing Market -- 8. The Dream of the Labor-Managed Economy -- 9. Contrasting Economies: Sweden and the Developing Countries -- 10. Three Continents -- 11. In Parliament -- 12....

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. New pragmatism for new times -- Chapter 3. Political system and socio-economic development -- Chapter 4. People’s planet -- Chapter 5. Leadership: economics and politics of great change -- Chapter 6. One-third of the century of transformation -- Chapter 7....

1 Introduction -- Part I Imperfect Competition -- 2 Imperfect Competition and the Marginal Principle -- 3 The Problem of Duopoly -- 4 Oxford Studies in the Price Mechanism -- Part II Keynes -- 5 The Cambridge ‘Circus’ -- 6 Some Aspects of the Development of Keynes’s Thought -- 7 ‘The...