Books in the Routledge Advances in Social Economics series

Recognising the gift as an example of social practice underpinned by social institutions, this book moves beyond the utilitarian approach of mainstream economics to explore perspectives on the gift from social and institutional economics.

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 and explores the most up-to-date fuzzy-set methods for the measurement of socio-economic phenomena in a multidimensional and/or dynamic perspective.

How Social Forces Impact the Economy demonstrates that a broader conception of social economics provides for a better understanding of how economies work. It argues that adopting a social approach opens the door to studying how people learn by taking cues from others about what to consume.

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 selected chapters by leading scholars it examines the central contributions that John Davis has made to various areas of scholarship.

Recognising the gift as an example of social practice underpinned by social institutions, this book moves beyond the utilitarian approach of mainstream economics to explore perspectives on the gift from social and institutional economics.

Focuses on the role of ethics, morality, identity, and society in economic theorizing. This book describes the diverse and dynamic theoretical approaches that are employed in social economics. It is useful for students and academics in the fields of Economics, Sociology, Gender Studies, and Public Policy.

This text argues that in the age of globalization and rapid technological change, an understanding of business behaviour and government policy towards business requires an appreciation of the firm's human dimension.

Explore the way society develops using the equally radical, but very different approaches of Thorstein Veblen and Karl Marx.

Work in behavioural economics has questioned traditional measures for welfare. This book asks whether a different measure for individual welfare can, and should, be found. It explores whether a hedonistic view of welfare represents a viable alternative, and what its normative implications are.

Concentrates on ethnic minorities such as former slaves, outcastes and indigenous peoples dispossessed of homeland. This book asks why these socially excluded groups remain at the bottom of their social hierarchies as the poorest of the poor, even in nations long committed to equal opportunity.

Geographers, historians of technology and sociologists have devoted 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 self-interested representative agent making utility maximizing decisions. This book develops this account.

The concept of the individual and his/her motivations is a bedrock of philosophy. Economics, though, is guilty of taking this hugely important concept without questioning how we theorise it. This superb book remedies this oversight.

This volume provides an introduction to economics in terms of human rather than material welfare. The book recommends a more rational economic order and proposes new principles of economic policy.

Presents a perspective on the link between economic growth and environmental change. The text covers key issues in environmental economics, including: industry creation and environmental change; air, water and toxic pollution; and ethics and the limits of environmental economics.

How Social Forces Impact the Economy demonstrates that a broader conception of social economics provides for a better understanding of how economies work. It argues that adopting a social approach opens the door to studying how people learn by taking cues from others about what to consume.

This book presents the first comprehensive analyis of both paid and unpaid work time, integrating a unique discussion of overwork, underwork, shortening of the working week and flexible work practices.

This work brings together leading practitioners from the field of social economics to address such issues as the transition from command economies, repairing dysfunctional economies, and to debate values and premises in social economics.

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 same time, address long-standing, classic questions in the literature concerning the forms, determinants and consequences of social capital.

Health care reform has long been dominated by the techniques of mainstream economics and the constant application of the tools of cost-benefit analysis. However, a more socially responsible approach is emerging due to issues such as privacy and genetic testing. This work explore these phenomena.