Research Catalog

Title

The Elgar companion to social economics / edited by John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma.

Publication

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar, ©2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Davis, John Bryan.
• Dolfsma, Wilfred.

Description

xxi, 682 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This text brings together the leading contributors in the field to elucidate a wide range of recent developments across different subject areas and topics.

Alternative Title

Companion to social economics

Subject

• Economics > Sociological aspects
• Sozioökonomisches System
• Wirtschaftsethik
• Wirtschaftssoziologie
• Wirtschaftstheorie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Social economics : an introduction and a view of the field / John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma -- Environment and sustainability / Jouni Paavola and Inge Røpke -- Institutions, culture and value / Anne Mayhew -- Insecurity / John Vail -- The ethical dimensions of the 'globalization thesis' debate / George DeMartino -- Individual preferences and decision-making / Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap -- The conception of the socially embedded individual / John B. Davis -- The social dimension of internal conflict / David George -- The socio-economics of consumption : solutions to the problems of interest, knowledge and identity / Metin M. Coşgel -- Capabilities and well-being / Irene van Staveren -- Culture, values and institutions / Paul D. Bush -- Caste and diversity in India / Ashwini Deshpande -- Feminism and/in economics / Edith Kuiper -- Income distribution and inequality / Frank A. Cowell -- The social economics of growth and income inequality / Morris Altman -- Markets / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- Are markets everywhere? Understanding contemporary processes of commodification / Luis Francisco Carvalho and João Rodrigues -- Work : its social meanings and role in provisioning / Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari -- Firms : collective action and its supportive values / Helena Lopes and José Castro Caldas -- Knowledge spillover entrepreneurship and innovation in large and small firms / David B. Audretsch and Max Keilbach -- Firms, managers and restructuring : implications of a social economics view / Hans Schenk -- Social capital : a critique and extension / Nicolas Sirven -- Social networks : structure and content / Wilfred Dolfsma and Rick Aalbers -- Communication in the economy : the example of innovation / Stefan Kesting -- Methodological approaches in economics and anthropology / Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray -- Saving, stock market investments and pension systems / Martha A. Starr -- Monetary policy / Sheila C. Dow -- Banking, finance and money : a social economics approach / L. Randall Wray -- Global finance and development : false starts, dead ends and social economic alternatives / Ilene Grabel -- The welfare state and privatization / Robert McMaster -- The states of social economics / Charlie Dannreuther and Oliver Kessler -- Law and social economics : a Coasean perspective / David Campbell and Matthias Klaes -- Social law and economics and the quest for dignity and rights / Mark D. White -- Technology and long waves in economic growth / Alfred Kleinknecht and Gerben van der Panne -- Analysing regional development : from territorial innovation to path-dependent geography / Frank Moulaert and Abid Mehmood -- Radical institutionalism / William M. Dugger -- Exploitation and surplus / Phillip Anthony O'Hara.

ISBN

• 9781845422806
• 1845422805
• 9781849800853
• 1849800855

LCCN

2008927946

OCLC

• ocn220003878
• 220003878
• SCSB-8799790

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library