The Elgar Companion to Social Economics

Edited by John Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma ()

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Abstract: As this comprehensive Companion demonstrates, social economics is a dynamic and growing field that emphasizes the key role that values play in the economy and in economic life. Social economics treats the economy and economics as being embedded in the larger web of social and ethical relationships. It also regards economics and ethics as essentially connected, and adds values such as justice, fairness, dignity, well-being, freedom and equality to the standard emphasis on efficiency. The Elgar Companion to Social Economics brings together the leading contributors in the field to elucidate a wide range of recent developments across different subject areas and topics. In so doing the contributors also map the likely trends and directions of future research. This Companion will undoubtedly become a leading reference source and guide to social economics for many years to come.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
ISBN: 9781845422806
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Environment and Sustainability

Jouni Paavola and Inge Røpke

Ch 2 Institutions, Culture and Values

Anne Mayhew

Ch 3 Insecurity

John Vail

Ch 4 The Ethical Dimensions of the ‘Globalization Thesis’ Debate

George DeMartino

Ch 5 Individual Preferences and Decision-Making

Shaun Hargreaves Heap

Ch 6 The Conception of the Socially Embedded Individual

John Davis

Ch 7 The Social Dimension of Internal Conflict

David George

Ch 8 The Socio-economics of Consumption: Solutions to the Problems of Interest, Knowledge and Identity

Metin Cosgel

Ch 9 Capabilities and Well-being

Irene van Staveren

Ch 10 Culture, Values and Institutions

Paul D. Bush

Ch 11 Caste and Diversity in India

Ashwini Deshpande

Ch 12 Feminism and/in Economics

Edith Kuiper

Ch 13 Income Distribution and Inequality

Frank Cowell

Ch 14 The Social Economics of Growth and Income Inequality

Morris Altman

Ch 15 Markets

Geoffrey Hodgson

Ch 16 Are Markets Everywhere? Understanding Contemporary Processes of Commodification

Luís Francisco Carvalho and João Rodrigues

Ch 17 Work: Its Social Meanings and Role in Provisioning

Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari

Ch 18 Firms: Collective Action and its Supportive Values

Helena Lopes and José Castro Caldas

Ch 19 Knowledge Spillover Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Large and Small Firms

David Audretsch and Max Keilbach

Ch 20 Firms, Managers and Restructuring: Implications of a Social Economics View

Hans Schenk

Ch 21 Social Capital: A Critique and Extension

Nicolas Sirven

Ch 22 Social Networks: Structure and Content

Wilfred Dolfsma and Rick Aalbers

Ch 23 Communication in the Economy: The Example of Innovation

Stefan Kesting

Ch 24 Methodological Approaches in Economics and Anthropology

Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray

Ch 25 Saving, Stock Market Investments and Pension Systems

Martha Starr

Ch 26 Monetary Policy

Sheila Dow

Ch 27 Banking, Finance and Money: A Social Economics Approach

L. Randall Wray

Ch 28 Global Finance and Development: False Starts, Dead Ends and Social Economic Alternatives

Ilene Grabel

Ch 29 The Welfare State and Privatization

Robert McMaster

Ch 30 The States of Social Economics

Charlie Dannreuther and Oliver Kessler

Ch 31 Law and Social Economics: A Coasean Perspective

David Campbell and Matthias Klaes

Ch 32 Social Law and Economics and the Quest for Dignity and Rights

Mark White

Ch 33 Technology and Long Waves in Economic Growth

Alfred Kleinknecht and Gerben van der Panne

Ch 34 Analysing Regional Development: From Territorial Innovation to Path-Dependent Geography

Frank Moulaert and Abid Mehmood

Ch 35 Radical Institutionalism

William M. Dugger

Ch 36 Exploitation and Surplus

Philip Anthony O’Hara

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