Bøger i Routledge Advances in Social Economics serien
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- Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City
663,95 - 1.922,95 kr. - Bog
- 663,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 1.452,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 1.475,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 543,95 kr.
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- Insights from a Fuzzy Multi-dimensional Approach
1.475,95 kr. - Bog
- 1.475,95 kr.
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- Perspectives from Institutional Economics and Other Social Sciences
1.475,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 1.475,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 1.475,95 kr.
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665,95 - 1.475,95 kr. - Bog
- 665,95 kr.
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- Economics imperialism and the challenge of interdisciplinarity
551,95 - 1.734,95 kr. - Bog
- 551,95 kr.
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- Social Values, Power, and Social Identity
2.025,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 2.025,95 kr.
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- Insights from Social Economics
594,95 - 1.922,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 594,95 kr.
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- Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity
822,95 kr. A cross-national, comparative investigation of patterns and dynamics of inter-group economic inequality. Experts discuss groups from Japan to India, attempts to remedy inter-group inequality and race and labor market outcomes in Brazil.
- Bog
- 822,95 kr.
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- A Socio-Economic Analysis of its Behaviour and Potential in a New Economic Age
642,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 642,95 kr.
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716,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 716,95 kr.
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- Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region
1.582,95 kr. - Bog
- 1.582,95 kr.
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- New Methods of Analysis
2.025,95 kr. Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty continues to be a key area of research. This new book, from a leading international group of scholars, offers an up to date and innovative survey of new methods for estimating poverty at the local level, as well as the most recent multidimensional methods of the dynamics of poverty.
- Bog
- 2.025,95 kr.
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- Contesting Consumption
690,95 - 1.925,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 690,95 kr.
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689,95 - 1.917,95 kr. Explore the way society develops using the equally radical, but very different approaches of Thorstein Veblen and Karl Marx.
- Bog
- 689,95 kr.
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- Development, work and policy
1.835,95 kr. This volume expands on the standard economic framework of 'global economy' by looking at the way in which economic life is framed by society and social relationships and investigates how social values influence and help determine economic values.
- Bog
- 1.835,95 kr.
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- Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change
562,95 - 1.582,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 562,95 kr.
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- The World of Social Enterprises
1.831,95 kr. Offers an interpretation of social enterprises as entrepreneurial organizations that pursue social objectives and are successful due to the non-self-seeking motives of their members.
- Bog
- 1.831,95 kr.
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- Slow roads to progress
600,95 - 2.029,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 600,95 kr.
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- Identity and Value
714,95 - 1.821,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 714,95 kr.
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- International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives
1.924,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 1.924,95 kr.
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- Premises, Findings and Policies
1.736,95 kr. This work brings together practitioners from the field of social economics to address such issues as values and premises in social economics, justice, solidarity and community, repairing the dysfunction of capitalist economies, and the transition from command economies.
- Bog
- 1.736,95 kr.
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- Steady-State Economics as an Alternative to Ecological Decline
416,95 - 719,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 416,95 kr.
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- Bog
- 605,95 kr.
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- Two Centuries of Economic Thought in the Humanist Tradition
700,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 700,95 kr.
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- International Trends, Theory and Policy Perspectives
639,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 639,95 kr.
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- Premises, Findings and Policies
692,95 kr. 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.
- Bog
- 692,95 kr.