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Routledge Advances in Social Economics


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This series presents new advances and developments in social economics thinking on a variety of subjects that concern the link between social values and economics. Need, justice and equity, gender, cooperation, work, poverty, the environment, class, institutions, public policy, and methodology are some of the most important themes. Among the orientations of the authors are social economist, institutionalist, humanist, solidarist, cooperativist, radical and Marxist, feminist, post-Keynesian, behaviorist, and environmentalist. The series offers new contributions from today’s most foremost thinkers on the social character of the economy. 

Publishes in conjunction with the Association of Social Economics.

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Normative Economics in the History of Economic Thought Marx, Mises, Friedman and Popper

Normative Economics in the History of Economic Thought: Marx, Mises, Friedman and Popper

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Sina Badiei
June 21, 2024

This book examines the role of normative economics in the writings of Karl Marx, Ludwig von Mises, Milton Friedman and Karl Popper. The book shows that while distinguishing positive from normative economics can be helpful, this distinction should not minimize the importance of normative economics ...

Political Economy, Institutions and Virtue Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism

Political Economy, Institutions and Virtue: Alasdair MacIntyre’s Revolutionary Aristotelianism

1st Edition

Forthcoming

By Matias Petersen
June 21, 2024

This book engages with a radical critique of the modern state and the contemporary economic order: Alasdair MacIntyre’s ‘revolutionary Aristotelianism’ project. Central to this critique is the idea that the moral norms that markets and states tend to reproduce or reinforce are an obstacle to the ...

Virtues, Morals and Markets Why Moral Identity Matters

Virtues, Morals and Markets: Why Moral Identity Matters

1st Edition

By Rojhat Avsar
March 05, 2024

Being oblivious to the motivational nuances behind human behavior could lead one to overlook the distinction that a good action does not always indicate a good character. Conversely, this book argues that such nuances are paramount. Focusing on character over consequences is vital because ...

Human Nature in Modern Economics Structure, Change and Perspectives

Human Nature in Modern Economics: Structure, Change and Perspectives

1st Edition

By Anna Horodecka
January 29, 2024

Human Nature in Modern Economics offers a precise definition of the concept of human nature in economics, something that is so far lacking in the theoretical and methodological literature. This book develops tools for the analysis of human nature through the construction of the author’s meta-model...

Analysis of Socio-Economic Conditions Insights from a Fuzzy Multi-dimensional Approach

Analysis of Socio-Economic Conditions: Insights from a Fuzzy Multi-dimensional Approach

1st Edition

Edited By Gianni Betti, Achille Lemmi
September 26, 2022

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 ...

The Economics of Scientific Misconduct Fraud, Replication Failure, and Research Ethics in Empirical Inquiry

The Economics of Scientific Misconduct: Fraud, Replication Failure, and Research Ethics in Empirical Inquiry

1st Edition

By James R. Wible
August 18, 2022

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...

The Gift in the Economy and Society Perspectives from Institutional Economics and Other Social Sciences

The Gift in the Economy and Society: Perspectives from Institutional Economics and Other Social Sciences

1st Edition

Edited By Stefan Kesting, Ioana Negru, Paolo Silvestri
August 01, 2022

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 ...

How Social Forces Impact the Economy

How Social Forces Impact the Economy

1st Edition

Edited By Steven Pressman
June 23, 2020

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 as Social Science Economics imperialism and the challenge of interdisciplinarity

Economics as Social Science: Economics imperialism and the challenge of interdisciplinarity

1st Edition

By Roberto Marchionatti, Mario Cedrini
November 28, 2019

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 ‘...

History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics

History, Methodology and Identity for a 21st Century Social Economics

1st Edition

Edited By Wilfred Dolfsma, D. Wade Hands, Robert McMaster
June 03, 2019

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

Welfare Economics: An Interpretive History

1st Edition

By Roger A. McCain
May 14, 2019

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 ...

Health Care Economics

Health Care Economics

1st Edition

By John B. Davis, Robert McMaster
May 26, 2017

The analytical approach of standard health economics has so far failed to sufficiently account for the nature of care.  This has important ramifications for the analysis and valuation of care, and therefore for the pattern of health and medical care provision. This book sets out an alternative ...

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