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.
Socio-economic Mobility and Low-status Minorities: Slow roads to progress
1st Edition
By Jacob Meerman
August 16, 2011
This book concentrates on ethnic minorities such as former slaves, outcastes and indigenous peoples dispossessed of homeland. These groups are universally without power, usually undereducated, and always victims of their fellow citizens. The book asks why these socially excluded groups remain at ...
The Theory of the Individual in Economics: Identity and Value
1st Edition
By John B Davis
May 30, 2003
The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy. All strands of thought at heart come down to a particular theory of the individual. Economics, though, is guilty of taking this hugely important concept without questioning how we theorise it. This superb book ...
The Social Economics of Health Care
1st Edition
Edited
By John Davis
June 26, 2001
For too long now, the issue of health care reform has been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis to an area that does not suit it.Issues such as privacy, genetic testing and the allocation of organ transplants require ...
Reclaiming Evolution
1st Edition
By William Dugger, Howard J. Sherman
November 30, 2000
Howard Sherman and William M. Dugger engage in a dialogue on social evolution from Institutionalist and Marxist perspectives, each representing one side. Together they explore the way society develops using the equally radical, but very different approaches of Thorstein Veblen and Karl Marx....
Economics for the Common Good: Two Centuries of Economic Thought in the Humanist Tradition
1st Edition
By Mark A Lutz
April 16, 1999
This textbook presents an introduction to the central issues of social economics. Building on a venerable social economics tradition, the book recommends a more rational economic order and proposes new principles of economic policy. The issues covered include: * the inadequacy of individualistic ...
The Environmental Consequences of Growth: Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline
1st Edition
By Douglas Booth
January 27, 1998
This book presents a new perspective on the link between economic growth and environmental change. All the key issues in environmental economics are covered, including: * industry, creation and environmental change * air, water and toxic pollution * economic growth and the limits of environmental ...