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.
Economic and Social Welfare: A Cultural Approach
1st Edition
By William A. Jackson
December 31, 2025
Arguing for a broader understanding of welfare, with culture as a unifying theme, this book demonstrates the explanatory power of an interdisciplinary approach to economic and social welfare. This approach highlights the narrowness of orthodox economics which, founded on individualistic and ...
Political Economy, Institutions and Virtue: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism
1st Edition
By Matías Petersen
December 26, 2025
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
December 26, 2025
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
How Social Forces Impact the Economy
1st Edition
Edited
By Steven Pressman
February 01, 2022
Social forces are important determinants of how people behave, how economies work at the macroeconomic level, and the effectiveness of economic policies. However, this dimension is generally overlooked in mainstream economics. How Social Forces Impact the Economy demonstrates that a broader ...
History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics
1st Edition
Edited
By Wilfred Dolfsma, D. Wade Hands, Robert McMaster
December 18, 2020
This book seeks to advance social economic analysis, economic methodology, and the history of economic thought in the context of twenty-first-century scholarship and socio-economic concerns. Bringing together carefully selected chapters by leading scholars it examines the central contributions that...
Welfare Economics: An Interpretive History
1st Edition
By Roger A. McCain
December 18, 2020
Although it was an important specialization in economics in the mid-twentieth century, welfare economics has received less attention in the twenty-first century. This book explores the history of welfare economics, with a view to explaining its rise and subsequent decline.Drawing on both philosophy...