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 and Other Disciplines: Assessing New Economic Currents
1st Edition
By Ricardo F. Crespo
September 30, 2020
During the second half of the twentieth century, economics exported its logic – utility maximization – to the analysis of several human activities or realities: a tendency that has been called “economic imperialism”. This book explores the concept termed by John Davis as “reverse imperialism”, ...
The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care: Cost-utility, social value, and fairness
1st Edition
By Andrea Klonschinski
September 30, 2020
The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades. Cost-utility analysis is the most commonly used method for determining the allocation of these resources, but this book counters the argument that overcoming its inherent ...
The Economics of Values-Based Organisations: An Introduction
1st Edition
By Luigino Bruni, Alessandra Smerilli
September 30, 2020
This book looks at the governance of values-based organizations (VBOs), which are organizations with a mission and identity based on ideals. Examples of VBOs include non-profit organizations, charities, NGOs, environmental, educational or cultural organizations, and social enterprises. The main ...
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...
Social Capital and Economics: Social Values, Power, and Social Identity
1st Edition
Edited
By Asimina Christoforou, John Davis
November 10, 2016
This volume provides a collection of critical new perspectives on social capital theory by examining how social values, power relationships, and social identity interact with social capital. This book seeks to extend this theory into what have been largely under-investigated domains, and, at the ...
The Human Firm: A Socio-Economic Analysis of its Behaviour and Potential in a New Economic Age
1st Edition
By John Tomer
December 07, 2015
This book challenges mainstream neo-classical perspectives on the firm. John Tomer argues that in the age of globalization and rapid technological change, an understanding of business behaviour and government policy toward business requires an appreciation of the firm's human dimension. The Human ...
Working Time: International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah M. Figart, Lonnie Golden
December 22, 2014
Working time is a crucial issue for both research and public policy. This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of both paid and unpaid work time, integrating a unique discussion of overwork, underwork, shortening of the working week, and flexible work practices.Time at work is affected by...
Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap: Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City
1st Edition
By Pamela Lenton, Paul Mosley
July 03, 2014
The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere. In Britain, the main political parties have an anti-poverty mandate and in particular an agreed commitment to eliminate child poverty by 2020, but there is controversy over how this should be done...
Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare: Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change
1st Edition
By Martin Binder
June 19, 2014
It has always been an important task of economics to assess individual and social welfare. The traditional approach has assumed that the measuring rod for welfare is the satisfaction of the individual’s given and unchanging preferences, but recent work in behavioural economics has called this into ...