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Book SynopsisElgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
Forward thinking and provocative, this Research Agenda demonstrates different approaches to the field from experts focusing on global and local, and historical and contemporary issues. It asserts that critical political economists differ from their mainstream counterparts through the variety of methods they use and the questions they pose.
Eminent global scholars examine a diverse selection of interdisciplinary themes, raising questions surrounding future research in the area, offering examples and linking the theory to its implications for practice and policy. Chapters explore economic growth and the ideology of development, sweatshop economics, experimental economics, the land question in urban economics, money and finance, and thinking beyond capitalism with the solidarity economy.
A Research Agenda for Critical Political Economy will be a fascinating read for students and scholars of political economy, political science and economics. With case studies and practical examples of the application of the topic, it will also be an invigorating read for economists and policy makers looking for alternative approaches to the field.
Trade Review'To be ''critical'' as a political economist is to be part of a rich and varied heritage, within which a series of alternative perspectives are articulated and defended in the name of a broader, common endeavour. This book ably showcases the diverse and pluralistic nature of contemporary critical political economy scholarship, something which is needed more than ever in times of the coronavirus and the associated economic, political and social upheavals.' --Ian Bruff, University of Manchester, UK
Table of ContentsContents: 1. What Makes Critical Research in Political Economy? Bill Dunn 2. The Political Economy of Inequality: Research to Deepen Understanding Frank Stilwell 3. Economic Growth and the Ideology of Development Benjamin Selwyn 4. Money, finance and the state: potential routes for further development of research Sheila Dow 5. Knowledge, Power and the Global South: Epistemes and Economies after Colonialism Nour Nicole Dados 6. For a Critical Political Economy of International Trade Bill Dunn 7. Sweatshop Economics, the Poverty of Trade Theory and the Making of Inequality Across Scales Alessandra Mezzadri 8. Structure and Agency: Themes from Experimental Economics Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap 9. Time, Space, Geographical Scale and Political Economy Andrew Herod 10. Uncertainty, the Modern Financial Market and the Real Economy Fernando Ferrari Filho and Fábio Henrique Bittes Terra 11. The Capitalist Space-Economy: Uneven Geographical Development, Value and More-than Capitalist Contestations Eric Sheppard 12. Reclaiming Local Contexts: Disrupting the Virtual Economy Sabine U. O’Hara 13. The Land Question in Urban Economics: A Political Economic Response Franklin Obeng-Odoom 14. The Political Economy of Displacement Governance: The Case of Refugees in the European Union Ali Bhagat and Susanne Soederberg 15. Thinking Beyond Capitalism: Social Movements, R/evolution, and the Solidarity Economy Julie Matthaei Index
