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.
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 ...
Social Economics: Premises, Findings and Policies
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward O'Boyle
May 16, 2014
Social Economics is a way of thinking about economic affairs that begins with the philosphical foundations. It begins at this level, frequently overlooked by mainstream economists, to illustrate how critical premises are in the construction of an economy and the repair of a dysfunctional economy. ...
Boundaries of Clan and Color: Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity
1st Edition
Edited
By William Darity, Ashwini Deshpande
March 31, 2014
Economic disparity between ethnic and racial groups is a ubiquitous and pervasive phenomenon internationally. Gaps between groups encompass employment, wage, occupational status and wealth differentials. Virtually every nation is comprised of a group whose material well-being is sharply depressed ...
Global Social Economy: Development, work and policy
1st Edition
Edited
By John Davis
November 08, 2013
This book addresses ‘global social economy’ which addresses the relation of capitalism to human flourishing, the role of international governance in the world economy, the transformation of work and use of time in internationalizing economies, cross-country developments in gender, poverty, and ...
Living Wage Movements: Global Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Deborah M. Figart
September 10, 2012
Living wage activism has spanned time and space, reaching across decades and national boundaries. Conditions generating living wage movements early in the twentieth century have resurfaced in the twenty-first century, only on a global scale: 'sweated' labour, macroeconomic instability, and job ...
The Economics of Social Responsibility: The World of Social Enterprises
1st Edition
Edited
By Carlo Borzaga, Leonardo Becchetti
May 30, 2012
This book offers a rethinking of the burgeoning research on not-for-profit organizations and socially responsible economics. Adopting a comparative approach, the chapters explore and reinterpret the impact of social enterprises on the provision of general-interest services, work integration, ...
Ethics and the Market: Insights from Social Economics
1st Edition
By Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma, Deborah M. Figart
November 24, 2011
Comprising cutting-edge work on the state of social economics today, this theoretically diverse book includes strong emphasis on the role of ethics, morality, identity, and society in economic theorizing. Much existing economic theory overlooks ethics. Rather than situating the market and values ...
The Political Economy of Consumer Behavior: Contesting Consumption
1st Edition
By Bruce Pietrykowski
September 14, 2011
Consumption forms a major part of people’s lives. As such, geographers, historians of technology and sociologists have devoted much attention to trying to figure out what makes consumption meaningful. By contrast, economists have been content to hold onto theories of consumption that depend on a ...