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 Economics: Premises, Findings and Policies
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward O'Boyle
May 19, 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
April 03, 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 B Davis
November 11, 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 12, 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 28, 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 26, 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 ...
Socio-economic Mobility and Low-status Minorities: Slow roads to progress
1st Edition
By Jacob Meerman
August 17, 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
March 20, 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 B Davis
May 17, 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
October 12, 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
February 25, 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 ...