Book Series in Economics
Routledge Advances in Social Economics
New & Published Titles:
The Economics of Social Responsibility
The World of Social Enterprises
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…
read moreMay 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-46576-2 (Routledge)
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Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare
Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change
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…
read moreApril 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-56298-0 (Routledge)
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Global Social Economy
Development, work and policy
This book addresses ‘global social economy’ which addresses the relation of capitalism to human flourishing, the role of international governance in the world economy, the…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77809-1 (Routledge)
Socio-economic Mobility and Low-status Minorities
Slow roads to progress
This book concentrates on ethnic minorities such as former slaves, outcastes and indigenous peoples dispossessed of homeland. These groups are universally without power, usually undereducated,…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77566-3 (Routledge)
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The Political Economy of Consumer Behavior
Contesting Consumption
Consumption forms a major part of people’s lives. As such, geographers, historians of technology and sociologists have devoted much attention to trying to figure out…
read more2009 | Hardback: 978-0-415-77312-6 (Routledge)
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Ethics and the Market
Insights from Social Economics
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…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-39461-1 (Routledge)
Living Wage Movements
Global Perspectives
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… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-32002-3 (Routledge)
Boundaries of Clan and Color
Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity
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.… read more2003 | Hardback: 978-0-415-27395-4 (Routledge)
The Theory of the Individual in Economics
Identity and Value
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… read more2003 | Paperback: 978-0-415-20220-6 (Routledge)
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The Social Economics of Health Care
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… read more2001 | Paperback: 978-0-415-25162-4 (Routledge)
Forthcoming Titles:
Community Finance: Tackling Poverty and Social Exclusion
By Pamela Lenton, Paul Mosley
To be published December 31st 2010