Routledge Advances in Social Economics
About the Book Series
This series presents new advances and developments in social economics thinking on a variety of subjects that concern the link between social values and economics. Need, justice and equity, gender, cooperation, work, poverty, the environment, class, institutions, public policy, and methodology are some of the most important themes. Among the orientations of the authors are social economist, institutionalist, humanist, solidarist, cooperativist, radical and Marxist, feminist, post-Keynesian, behaviorist, and environmentalist. The series offers new contributions from today’s most foremost thinkers on the social character of the economy.
Publishes in conjunction with the Association of Social Economics.
Economics of Social Relations: Critical Perspectives on Social Capital
1st Edition
By Atilano Pena-López, Matías Membiela-Pollán
November 22, 2024
Starting from the idea that economic relations are social relations, and every economic fact is first a social fact, this book explores one of the crucial problems within economic science: how to embody the social dimension into the study of economic reality from a critical perspective. This book ...
The Economics of Scientific Misconduct: Fraud, Replication Failure, and Research Ethics in Empirical Inquiry
1st Edition
By James R. Wible
August 05, 2024
The Economics of Scientific Misconduct explores episodes of misconduct in the natural and biomedical sciences and replication failure in economics and psychology over the past half-century. Here scientific misconduct is considered from the perspective of a single discipline such as economics likely...
Normative Economics in the History of Economic Thought: Marx, Mises, Friedman and Popper
1st Edition
By Sina Badiei
June 21, 2024
This book examines the role of normative economics in the writings of Karl Marx, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman and Karl Popper. The book shows that while distinguishing positive from normative economics can be helpful, this distinction should not minimize the importance of normative economics ...
Political Economy, Institutions and Virtue: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism
1st Edition
By Matías Petersen
June 21, 2024
This book engages with a radical critique of the modern state and the contemporary economic order: Alasdair MacIntyre’s ‘revolutionary Aristotelianism’ project. Central to this critique is the idea that the moral norms that markets and states tend to reproduce or reinforce are an obstacle to the ...
Virtues, Morals and Markets: Why Moral Identity Matters
1st Edition
By Rojhat Avsar
March 05, 2024
Being oblivious to the motivational nuances behind human behavior could lead one to overlook the distinction that a good action does not always indicate a good character. Conversely, this book argues that such nuances are paramount. Focusing on character over consequences is vital because ...
Human Nature in Modern Economics: Structure, Change and Perspectives
1st Edition
By Anna Horodecka
January 29, 2024
Human Nature in Modern Economics offers a precise definition of the concept of human nature in economics, something that is so far lacking in the theoretical and methodological literature. This book develops tools for the analysis of human nature through the construction of the author’s meta-model...
Analysis of Socio-Economic Conditions: Insights from a Fuzzy Multi-dimensional Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Gianni Betti, Achille Lemmi
September 26, 2022
Showcasing fuzzy set theory, this book highlights the enormous potential of fuzzy logic in helping to analyse the complexity of a wide range of socio-economic patterns and behaviour. The contributions to this volume explore the most up-to-date fuzzy-set methods for the measurement of ...
The Gift in the Economy and Society: Perspectives from Institutional Economics and Other Social Sciences
1st Edition
Edited
By Stefan Kesting, Ioana Negru, Paolo Silvestri
August 01, 2022
Mainstream economics offers a perspective on the gift which is constructed around exchange, axioms of self-interest, instrumental rationality and utility-maximisation – concepts that predominate within conventional forms of economic analysis. Recognising the gift as an example of social practice ...
Economics as Social Science: Economics imperialism and the challenge of interdisciplinarity
1st Edition
By Roberto Marchionatti, Mario Cedrini
November 28, 2019
There is a growing consensus in social sciences that there is a need for interdisciplinary research on the complexity of human behavior. At an age of crisis for both the economy and economic theory, economics is called upon to fruitfully cooperate with contiguous social disciplines. The term ‘...
Health Care Economics
1st Edition
By John B. Davis, Robert McMaster
May 26, 2017
The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care. This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation of care, and therefore for the pattern of health and medical care provision. This book sets out an alternative ...
Poverty and Social Exclusion: New Methods of Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Gianni Betti, Achille Lemmi
December 08, 2016
Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty continues to be a key area of research. This new book, from a leading international group of scholars, offers an up to date and innovative survey of new methods for estimating poverty at...
The Capability Approach: Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region
1st Edition
Edited
By Francesca Panzironi, Katharine Gelber
December 08, 2016
This book provides a unique laboratory of ‘capabilities in practice’ in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the application of the capability approach in development practice and public policy from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of...