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History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics
Av Wilfred Dolfsma, D. Wade Hands m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2513 kr
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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 carefully selected chapters by leading scholars it examines the central contributions that …
How Social Forces Impact the Economy
Inbunden, 2020
2588 kr
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Social forces are important determinants of how people behave, how economies work at the macroeconomic level, and the effectiveness of economic policies. However, this dimension is generally overlooked in mainstream economics. How Social Forces Impact the Economy demonstrates that a broader …
Economics of Scientific Misconduct
Fraud, Replication Failure, and Research Ethics in Empirical Inquiry
Inbunden, 2022
2513 kr
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The Economics of Scientific Misconduct explores episodes of misconduct in the natural and biomedical sciences and replication failure in economics and psychology over the past half-century. Here scientific misconduct is considered from the perspective of a single discipline such as economics likely …
Gift in the Economy and Society
Perspectives from Institutional Economics and Other Social Sciences
Av Stefan Kesting, Ioana Negru m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2513 kr
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Mainstream economics offers a perspective on the gift which is constructed around exchange, axioms of self-interest, instrumental rationality and utility-maximisation – concepts that predominate within conventional forms of economic analysis. Recognising the gift as an example of social practice …
Gift in the Economy and Society
Perspectives from Institutional Economics and Other Social Sciences
Av Stefan Kesting, Ioana Negru m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
692 kr
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Mainstream economics offers a perspective on the gift which is constructed around exchange, axioms of self-interest, instrumental rationality and utility-maximisation – concepts that predominate within conventional forms of economic analysis. Recognising the gift as an example of social practice …
Analysis of Socio-Economic Conditions
Insights from a Fuzzy Multi-dimensional Approach
Av Gianni Betti, Achille Lemmi
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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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. The contributions to this volume explore the most up-to-date fuzzy-set methods for the measurement of socio-economic …
Analysis of Socio-Economic Conditions
Insights from a Fuzzy Multi-dimensional Approach
Av Gianni Betti, Achille Lemmi
Häftad, 2022
692 kr
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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. The contributions to this volume explore the most up-to-date fuzzy-set methods for the measurement of socio-economic …
Economics and Other Disciplines
Assessing New Economic Currents
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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During the second half of the twentieth century, economics exported its logic – utility maximization – to the analysis of several human activities or realities: a tendency that has been called “economic imperialism”. This book explores the concept termed by John Davis as “reverse imperialism”, …
Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care
Cost-utility, social value, and fairness
Häftad, 2020
742 kr
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The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades. Cost-utility analysis is the most commonly used method for determining the allocation of these resources, but this book counters the argument that overcoming its inherent …
Economics of Values-Based Organisations
An Introduction
Av Luigino Bruni, Alessandra Smerilli
Häftad, 2020
712 kr
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This book looks at the governance of values-based organizations (VBOs), which are organizations with a mission and identity based on ideals. Examples of VBOs include non-profit organizations, charities, NGOs, environmental, educational or cultural organizations, and social enterprises. The main …
History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics
Av Wilfred Dolfsma, D. Wade Hands m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
721 kr
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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 carefully selected chapters by leading scholars it examines the central contributions that …
Welfare Economics
An Interpretive History
Häftad, 2020
592 kr
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Although it was an important specialization in economics in the mid-twentieth century, welfare economics has received less attention in the twenty-first century. This book explores the history of welfare economics, with a view to explaining its rise and subsequent decline.Drawing on both philosophy …
Economics as Social Science
Economics imperialism and the challenge of interdisciplinarity
Av Roberto Marchionatti, Mario Cedrini
Häftad, 2019
692 kr
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There is a growing consensus in social sciences that there is a need for interdisciplinary research on the complexity of human behavior. At an age of crisis for both the economy and economic theory, economics is called upon to fruitfully cooperate with contiguous social disciplines. The term …
Social Economics
Premises, Findings and Policies
Inbunden, 1996
2513 kr
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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 …
Economics for the Common Good
Two Centuries of Economic Thought in the Humanist Tradition
Av Mark A Lutz
Häftad, 1999
910 kr
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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 …
Environmental Consequences of Growth
Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline
Inbunden, 1998
998 kr
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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 …
Environmental Consequences of Growth
Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline
Häftad, 1998
531 kr
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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 …
Theory of the Individual in Economics
Identity and Value
Av John B Davis
Inbunden, 2003
2513 kr
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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 …
Theory of the Individual in Economics
Identity and Value
Av John B Davis
Häftad, 2003
925 kr
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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 …
Working Time
International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives
Av Deborah M. Figart, Lonnie Golden
Inbunden, 2000
2746 kr
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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 …
Reclaiming Evolution
Av William Dugger, Howard J. Sherman
Inbunden, 2000
2746 kr
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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.
Reclaiming Evolution
Av William Dugger, Howard J. Sherman
Häftad, 2000
910 kr
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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.
Social Economics of Health Care
Av John B Davis
Häftad, 2001
925 kr
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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 …
Boundaries of Clan and Color
Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity
Av William Darity, Ashwini Deshpande
Inbunden, 2003
2746 kr
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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 …
Living Wage Movements
Global Perspectives
Av Deborah M. Figart, Deborah M. Figart
Inbunden, 2004
2746 kr
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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 …
Ethics and the Market
Insights from Social Economics
Av Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2746 kr
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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 at …
Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap
Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City
Inbunden, 2011
2746 kr
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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 …
Economics of Social Responsibility
The World of Social Enterprises
Av Carlo Borzaga, Leonardo Becchetti
Inbunden, 2010
2513 kr
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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
Av Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
772 kr
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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 at …
Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare
Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change
Inbunden, 2010
2513 kr
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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 …
