The Elgar companion to social economics
By: edited by John B. Davis, Wilfred Dolfsma
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, MA, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 751
ISBN-13: 9781783478538
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Sociological aspects; Economics
Notes: "In this second edition, many of the chapters from the first are significantly revised and new chapters have been added on teaching and learning in economics, cooperatives, provisioning and workplace democracy. These new and revised chapters deepen and expand the distinct understanding and vision that social economics brings to reflection on the social dimensions of economic life." -- Page 1, Social economics: introduction to the second edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: PART I. SOCIAL CONCERNS IN ECONOMICS; title: 1. Environment and sustainability / Jouni Paavola and Inge Røpke; title: 2. Institutions, culture and values / Anne Mayhew; title: 3. Insecurity / John Vail; title: 4. Contesting the 'globalization thesis': an ethical imperative / George DeMartino; title: 5. Teaching and learning in economics / Zohreh Emami; title: PART II. THE SOCIALLY EMBEDDED INDIVIDUAL; title: 6. Individual preferences and decision-making / Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap; title: 7. The conception of the socially embedded individual / John B. Davis; title: 8. The social dimension of internal conflict / David George; title: 9. The socio-economics of consumption: solutions to the problems of interest, knowledge and identity / Metin M. Coşgel; title: PART III. INDIVIDUALS IN CONTEXT; title: 10. Capabilities and wellbeing / Irene van Staveren; title: 11. Culture, values and institutions / Paul D. Bush; title: 12. Caste and diversity in India / Ashwini Deshpande; title: 13. Feminism and/in economics / Edith Kuiper; title: PART IV. GROWTH AND (IN-)EQUALITY; title: 14. Income distribution and inequality / Frank A. Cowell; title: 15. The social economics of growth and inequality / Morris Altman; title: PART V. SOCIALLY EMBEDDED EXCHANGE: MARKETS; title: 16. Markets / Geoffrey M. Hodgson; title: 17. Are markets everywhere? Understanding contemporary processes of commodification / Luís Francisco Carvalho and João Rodrigues; title: 18. Social provisioning through work / Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari; title: 19. Social provisioning / Marilyn Power; title: PART VI. SOCIALLY EMBEDDED EXCHANGE: FIRMS; title: 20. The cement of the firm: command, separation or association? / Helena Lopes and José Castro Caldas; title: 21. Knowledge spillover entrepreneurship and innovation in large and small firms / David B. Audretsch and Max Keilbach; title: 22. Firms, managers and restructuring: implications of a social economics view / Hans Schenk; title: 23. Community-oriented versus market-oriented cooperative organizations in developing countries: is open membership an indicator for success or failure? / Clemens Lutz; title: 24. Workplace democracy: current state and future directions of the literature / Michael D. Carr and Philip Mellizo; title: PART VII. SOCIAL RELATIONS IN THE ECONOMY; title: 25. Social capital: a critique and extension / Nicolas Sirven; title: 26. Organizations as social networks / Rick Aalbers and Wilfred Dolfsma; title: 27. Communication in the economy: the example of innovation / Stefan Kesting; title: 28. Methodological approaches in economics and anthropology / Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray; title: PART VIII. FINANCE, MONEY AND POLICY; title: 29. Saving, the stock market and pension systems / Martha A. Starr; title: 30. Monetary policy / Sheila C. Dow; title: 31. Banking, finance and money: a social economics approach / L. Randall Wray; title: 32. Finance, development and social economics in view of the global crisis / Ilene Grabel; title: PART IX. THE STATE; title: 33. The welfare state and privatization / Robert McMaster; title: 34. The states of social economics / Charlie Dannreuther and Oliver Kessler; title: PART X. LAW AND THE ECONOMY; title: 35. Law and social economics: a Coasean perspective / David Campbell and Matthias Klaes; title: 36. Securing an ethical foundation for law and social economics / Mark D. White; title: PART XI. THE LONG VIEW; title: 37. Technology and long waves in economic growth / Alfred Kleinknecht and Gerben van der Velde; title: 38. Analysing regional development: from territorial innovation to path-dependent geography / Frank Moulaert and Abid Mehmood; title: 39. Radical institutionalism / William M. Dugger; title: 40. Exploitation and surplus / Phillip Anthony O'Hara.