[URPE] The New Economics - Zed Books call for proposals

[Ken Barlow]

The New Economics series

Call for proposals

 

Concept:

Economics is changing fast.  Recently, a lot of exciting research in
heterodox traditions has developed to sheds light on some of the world's
most pressing problems - not least the ongoing global financial crisis -
challenging old ways of doing things and making economics more human and
more real.  

 

Zed Books is an independent academic publisher with a reputation for
cutting-edge international publishing.  Our innovative new series,
entitled The New Economics, intends to show how economics can be used in
new and creative ways, to solve problems and make things better, not
just entrench the way things are.  With the intention of addressing
topics as diverse as climate change, inequality, gender, global
institutions and development, these books will present new ways of
looking at pressing issues.

 

Short and accessible, the books endeavour to bring a fresh, unorthodox
approach to controversial subjects.  Their aim is to make economic
issues interesting and accessible to readers with very little prior
knowledge of the subject.  Bringing in non-Western perspectives is a
very important part of the series' appeal, but the focus is on economics
generally, rather than development economics specifically.  

 

Length:

Books should ideally be around 40,000 words long.  Within this word
limit, the structure of each book is very much open to individual
authors: books could either take the form of extended essays or consist
of shorter, more broken-up chapters.  

 

Readership:

Short, argumentative, and accessible, these books should represent
essential reading for a new generation of students, activists,
policy-makers, and people who just want to know more.

 

Submission:

To submit a proposal or for further information, please refer to the Zed
website or contact the Commissioning Editor for the Economics list, Ken
Barlow, at ken.barlow at zedbooks.net <mailto:ken.barlow at zedbooks.net> .

 
 

Ken Barlow

Commissioning Editor

Zed Books

7 Cynthia Street, London N1 9JF, T +44 (0)20 7837 0384, F +44 (0)20 7833
3960, www.zedbooks.co.uk <http://www.zedbooks.co.uk/> 

 

 
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