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1st Edition

Social Economics

Edited By Wilfred Dolfsma, Deborah Figart, Robert McMaster, Ellen Mutari, Mark White
    1646 Pages
    by Routledge

    Those toiling in the field of social economics seek to explain how the economy and social justice relate, and what this implies for economic theory and policy. Their invigorating scholarly output ranges from conceptual work on aligning economic institutions and policies with given ethical principles, to theoretical representations of individual behaviour that allow for both self-interested and ‘pro-social’ motives, and to original empirical work on persistent social issues such as poverty, inequality, and unfair discrimination.

    Social economics is a well-established and flourishing area of research and study, and this new four-volume collection in the Routledge Major Works series, Critical Concepts in Economics, meets the need for an authoritative reference work to enable users to make better sense of its voluminous literature. Indeed, the sheer scale of the research output—and the breadth of the field—makes this anthology especially welcome. It provides a one-stop collection of classic and contemporary contributions to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important scholarship from a wide range of theoretical and practical perspectives.

    Social Economics is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the material in its intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and advanced students, as well as by practitioners and policy-makers, as a vital research resource.

    Social Economics: Critical Concepts in Economics

    Volume 1: Philosophy (edited by Mark D. White)

    Table of Contents

    Acknowledgements

    General Introduction

    Introduction to volume 1

    Part 1: Ethics in Social Economics

    1. William R. Waters, ‘Social Economics: A Solidarist Perspective’, Review of Social Economy 46, 2, 1988, 113-143.

    2. Charles K. Wilber, ‘Ethics and Social Economics: ASE Presidential Address, January 2004, San Diego, California’, Review of Social Economy 62, 4, 2004, 425-439.

    3. Albino Barrera, ‘Economic Life, Rights, and Obligations: Perspectives from Theological Teleology’, Forum for Social Economics 29, 1, 1999, 63-74.

    4. Mark A. Lutz, ‘Centering Social Economics on Human Dignity’, Review of Social Economy 53, 2, 1995, 171-194.

    5. John B. Davis, ‘The Normative Significance of the Individual in Economics’, in Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma and Deborah M. Figart (eds.), Ethics and the Market: Insights from Social Economics (Routledge, 2006), pp. 69-83.

      6. Part 2: Major Schools of Ethics

    6. Deirdre McCloskey, ‘Adam Smith, the Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists’, History of Political Economy 40, 1, 2008, 43-71.

    7. Jennifer A. Baker, ‘Virtue and Behavior’, Review of Social Economy 67, 1, 2009, 3-24.

    8. Tom Warke, ‘Classical Utilitarianism and the Methodology of Determinate Choice, in Economics and in Ethics’, Journal of Economic Methodology 7, 3, 2000, 373-394.

    9. Mark D. White, ‘Judgment: Balancing Principle and Policy’, forthcoming in Review of Social Economy 73, 2015.

    10. Jonathan B. Wight, ‘Economics within a Pluralist Ethical Tradition’, Review of Social Economy 72, 4, 2014, 417-435.

      11. Part 3: Ethical Behavior

    11. Irene van Staveren, ‘Modelling Care’, Review of Social Economy 63, 4, 2005, 567-586.

    12. Andrew M. Yuengert, ‘Rational Choice with Passion: Virtue in a Model of Rational Addiction’, Review of Social Economy 59, 1, 2001, 1-21.

    13. Nancy Folbre and Robert E. Goodin, ‘Revealing Altruism’, Review of Social Economy 62, 1, 2004, 1-25.

    14. Lanse P. Minkler and Thomas J. Miceli, ‘Lying, Integrity, and Cooperation’, Review of Social Economy 62, 1, 2004, 27-50.

      15. Part 4: Broader Ethical Issues in Economics

    15. Julie A. Nelson, ‘Gender and Economic Ideologies’, Review of Social Economy 51, 3, 1993, 287-301.

    16. Daniel R. Finn, ‘The Moral Ecology of Markets: On the Failure of the Amoral Defense of Markets’, Review of Social Economy 61, 2, 2003, 135-162.

    17. Steven G. Medema, ‘Is There Life Beyond Efficiency? Elements of a Social Law and Economics’, Review of Social Economy 51, 2, 1992, 138-153.

    18. Steven McMullen and Daniel Molling, ‘Environmental Ethics, Economics, and Property Law’, in Mark D. White (ed.), Law and Social Economics: Essays in Ethical Values for Theory, Practice, and Policy (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), 21-40.

    19. Nuno Martins, ‘Ethics, Ontology and Capabilities’, Review of Political Economy 19, 1, 2007, 37-53.

      20. Volume 2: Social Economic Theory (edited by Wilfred Dolfsma)

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction to volume 2

      Part 1: How social is the market?

    20. Eckehard F. Rosenbaum, 'What is a Market? On the Methodology of a Contested Concept',　Review of Social Economy 58, 4, 2000, 455–82.

    21. Mark Hayes, ‘On the Efficiency of Fair Trade’, Review of Social Economy 64, 4, 2006, 447-468.

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    22. Aloys Wijngaards and Esther-Mirjam Sent, ‘Meaning of Life: Exploring the Relation between Economics and Religion’, Review of Social Economy 70, 1, 2012, 109-130.

    23. Martha Starr, ‘Consumption, Work Hours, and Values in the Writings of John A. Ryan: Is it Possible to Return to the Road Not Taken?,’ Review of Social Economy 66, 1, 2008, 7-24.

      24. Part 2: The Social in Markets

    24. Atle Blomgren, ‘Is the CSR Craze Good for Society? The Welfare Economic Approach to Corporate Social Responsibility’, Review of Social Economy 69, 4, 2011, 495-515.

    25. Manuel Couret Branco, ‘Family, Religion and Economic Performance: A Critique of Cultural Determinism’, Review of Social Economy 65, 4, 2007, 407-424.

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    26. Ayman Reda, ‘Islam and Markets’, Review of Social Economy 9, 1, 2013, 20-43.

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      Part 3: Social Players

    27. John B. Davis, ‘The Conception of the Socially Embedded Individual’, in John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma (eds), Elgar Companion to Social Economics, 2nd edition (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2015), pp. 116-130.

    28. Metin M. Coșgel, ‘The Socio-economics of Consumption: Solutions to the Problems of Interest, Knowledge and Identity’, in John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma (eds), Elgar Companion to Social Economics, 2nd edition (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2015), pp. 146-161.

    29. Rick Aalbers and Wilfred Dolfsma, ‘Organizations as Social Networks’, in John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma (eds), Elgar Companion to Social Economics, 2nd edition (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2015), pp. 462-475.

    30. Helena Lopes and Jose Castro Caldas, ‘The Cement of the Firm: Command, Separation or Association’, in John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma (eds), Elgar Companion to Social Economics, 2nd edition (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2015), pp.349-363.

    31. Luigino Bruni, Fabrizio Panebianco and Alessandra Smerilli, ‘Beyond Carrots and Sticks: How Cooperation and its Rewards Evolve Together’, Review of Social Economy 72, 1, 55-82.

    32. John R. Boatright, ‘Swearing to be Virtuous: The Prospects of a Banker's Oath’, Review of Social Economy 71, 2, 2013, 140-165.

      33. Part 4: Social Theory

    33. William A. Jackson, ‘Capabilities, Culture and Social Structure’, Review of Social Economy 63, 1, 2005, 101-124.

    34. Wilfred Dolfsma and Rudi Verburg, ‘Structure, Agency and the Role of Values in Processes of Institutional Change’, Journal of Economic Issues 42, 4, 2008, 1031-1054.

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    35. David Dequech, ‘Logics of Actions, Provisioning Domains, and Institutions: Provisioning Institutional Logics’, Review of Social Economy 66, 4, 2008, 501-522.

    36. Deborah Figart, ‘Gender as More than a Dummy Variable: Feminist Approaches to Discrimination’, Review of Social Economy 63, 3, 2005, 509-536.

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    37. Nuno Martins, ‘Realism, Universalism and Capabilities’, Review of Social Economy 65, 3, 2007, 253-278.

      38. Volume 3: Social Provisioning (edited by Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari)

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction to volume 3

      Part 1: Economies as Systems for Social Provisioning

    38. Marilyn Power, ‘Social Provisioning’, in John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma (eds), The Elgar Companion to Social Economics, 2nd edition (Edward Elgar Publishers, 2015), pp. 331-344.

    39. Tae-Hee Jo, ‘Social Provisioning Process and Socio-Economic Modeling’, American Journal of Economics and Sociology 70, 5, 2011, 1094-1116.

    40. Zdravka Todorova, ‘Consumption as a Social Process’, Journal of Economic Issues 48, 3, 2014, 663-678.

    41. Isabella Bakker, ‘Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered Political Economy’, New Political Economy 12, 4, 2007, 541-556.

    42. Deborah M. Figart, ‘Social Responsibility for Living Standards: Presidential Address, Association for Social Economics, 2007’, Review of Social Economy 65, 4, 2007, 391-405.

      43. Part 2: The Social Context of Provisioning

    43. Geoffrey Schneider and Paul Susman, ‘Trade, People and Places: A Social Economic-Geographic Approach to Comparative Institutional Advantage’, Review of Social Economy 66, 4, 2008, 469-499.

    44. François-Xavier Devetter and Sandrine Rousseau, ‘Working Hours and Sustainable Development’, Review of Social Economy 69, 3, 2011, 333-355.

    45. Bruce Pietrykowski, ‘You Are What You Eat: The Social Economy of the Slow Food Movement’, Review of Social Economy 62, 3, 2004, 307-321.

    46. Siobhan Austen and Noelle Leonard, ‘Measuring Women’s Quality of Life: A Discussion of Alternative Approaches’, Review of Social Economy 66, 3, 2008, 325-349.

    47. Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, James Heintz and Stephanie Seguino, ‘Critical Perspectives on Financial and Economic Crises: Heterodox Macroeconomics Meets Feminist Economics’, Feminist Economics 19, 3, 2013, 4-31.

      48. Part 3: Social Provisioning through Paid Work

    48. Helena Lopes, ‘Why Do People Work? Individual Wants Versus Common Goods’, Journal of Economic Issues 45, 1, 2011, 57-73.

    49. Ellen Mutari, ‘Brothers and Breadwinners: Legislating Living Wages in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938’, Review of Social Economy 62, 2, 2004, 129-148.

    50. Tonia Warnecke and Alex De Ruyter, ‘The Enforcement of Decent Work in India and Indonesia: Developing Sustainable Institutions’, Journal of Economic Issues 46, 2, 2012, 393-401.

    51. Colin C. Williams, ‘Unraveling the Meanings of Underground Work’, Review of Social Economy 63, 1, 2005, 1-18.

    52. David Harvie, Gary Slater, Bruce Philp and Dan Wheatley, ‘Economic Well-being and British Regions: The Problem with GDP Per Capita’, Review of Social Economy 67, 4, 2009, 483- 505.

      53. Part 4: Alternative Institutions for Organizing Social Provisioning

    53. Gar Alperovitz, ‘The Emerging Paradoxical Possibility of a Democratic Economy’, Review of Social Economy 69, 3, 2011, 377-391.

    54. Johnston Birchall, ‘The Comparative Advantages of Member-owned Businesses’, Review of Social Economy 70, 3, 2012, 263-294.

    55. John Posey, ‘The Local Economy Movement: An Alternative to Neoliberalism?’, Forum for Social Economics 40, 3, 2011, 299-312.

    56. Stephano Lucarelli and Andrea Fumagalli, ‘Basic Income and Productivity in Cognitive Capitalism’, Review of Social Economy 66, 1, 2008, 71-92.

      57. Volume 4: Policy (edited by Robert McMaster)

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Introduction to volume 4

      Part 1: Work, Employment and Wages

    57. Pavlina R. Tcherneva, ‘Permanent On-the-Spot Job Creation – The Missing Keynes Plan for Full Employment and Economic Transformation’, Review of Social Economics 70, 1, 2012, 57-80.

    58. Jon D. Wisman, ‘The Moral Imperative and Social Rationality of Government-Guaranteed Employment and Reskilling’, Review of Social Economics 68, 1, 2010, 35-67.

    59. Oren M. Levin-Waldman, ‘From a Narrowly Defined Minimum Wage to Broader Wage Policy’, Review of Social Economics 69, 1, 2011, 77-96.

    60. Edward James McKenna and Diane Catherine Zannoni, ‘Economics and the Supreme Court: The Case of the Minimum Wage’, Review of Social Economics 69, 2, 2011, 189-210.

      61. Part 2: Inequality and Poverty

    61. Steven Pressman and Robert Scott, ‘Consumer Debt and the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality in the US’, Review of Social Economics 67, 2, 2009, 127-148.

    62. Kenneth A. Reinert, ‘No Small Hope: The Basic Goods Imperative’, Review of Social Economics 69, 1, 2011, 55-76.

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    63. Christian Weller, ‘Have Differences in Credit Access Diminished in an Era of Financial Market Deregulation?’, Review of Social Economics 68, 1, 2010, 1-34.

      64. Part 3: Social Economic Criticism of and Alternatives to Neoliberal Policy Approaches

    64. Andrew Cumbers and Robert McMaster, ‘Socialism, Knowledge, the Instrumental Valuation Principle, and the Enhancement of Individual Dignity’, Economy and Society 39, 2, 2010, 247-470.

    65. Berhanu Nega and Geoffrey Schneider, ‘NGOs, the State, and Development in Africa’, Review of Social Economics 72, 4, 2014, 485-503.

    66. Thomas Palley, ‘The Economics of Outsourcing: How Should Policy Respond?’, Review of Social Economics 66, 3, 2008, 279-295.

    67. Richard V. Adkisson and Mikidadu Mohammed, ‘Pragmatism to Dogmatism: The Laissez Faire Myth and the Disabling of the American Fisc’, Review of Social Economics 70, 4, 2012, 421-450.

      68. Part 4: Money, Finance and Monetary Policy

    68. Sheila C. Dow, ‘Monetary Policy’, in John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma (eds), The Elgar Companion to Social Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008), pp. 463-477.

    69. L. Randall Wray, ‘Banking, Finance and Money: A Social Economics Approach’, in John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma (eds), The Elgar Companion to Social Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008), pp. 478-495

    70. Claudio Sardoni, ‘Some Notes on the Nature of Money and the Future of Monetary Policy’, Review of Social Economics 66, 4, 2008, 523-537.

    71. Edward Kane, ‘The Importance of Monitoring and Mitigating the Safety-Net Consequences of Regulation-Induced Innovation’, Review of Social Economics 68, 2, 2010, 145-161.

      72. Part 5: Topics on the State and the Social Economy

    72. Dennis C. Mueller, ‘The State and Religion’, Review of Social Economics 71, 1, 2013, 1-19.

    73. Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Shuxia Jiang, ‘The Economics of Corruption and the Corruption of Economics: An Institutionalist Perspective’, Journal of Economic Issues 41, 4, 2007, 1043-1061.

    74. Heather Boushey, ‘Family Friendly Policies: Helping Mothers Make Ends Meet’, Review of Social Economics 66, 1, 2008, 51-70.

    75. Philippe Batifoulier, Jean-Paul Domin and Maryse Gadreau, ‘Market Empowerment of the Patient: The French Experience’, Review of Social Economics 69, 2, 2011, 143-162.

    Biography

    Wilfred Dolfsma, University of Groningen, The Netherlands, Deborah M. Figart, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA, Robert McMaster, University of Glasgow, Ellen Mutari, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, USA, and Mark D. White, College of Staten Island, CUNY, USA

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