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1. Ethics and Economics

   New perspectives

   Edited by Mark D. White, Irene van Staveren

   Since the days of Adam Smith, ethics and economics have been closely intertwined, and were nominally separated only with the advent of neoclassical economics in the beginning of the last century. This book features eleven essays by leading scholars in economics and philosophy who argue for a...

   To Be Published August 29th 2012 by Routledge
2. Beyond Social Capital

   A critical approach

   Edited by Irene van Staveren, Peter Knorringa

   China is poised to gain global importance as a growth engine for the world economy on a par with Europe and the USA. Japanese multinational enterprises are increasingly active in relocating to China their R&D and capital- and knowledge-intensive production for both export-platform and target...

   Published December 12th 2007 by Routledge
3. The Feminist Economics of Trade

   Edited by Irene van Staveren, Diane Elson, Caren Grown, Nilufer Cagatay

   Series: Routledge IAFFE Advances in Feminist Economics

   Unravelling the complex relationship between gender inequality and trade, this is the first book to combine the tools of economic and gender analysis to examine the relationship between international trade and gender relations. It brings together fourteen contributions from a variety of economic...

   Published June 27th 2007 by Routledge
4. The Values of Economics

   An Aristotelian Perspective

   By Irene van Staveren

   Series: Economics as Social Theory

   In his Ethics, Aristotle argued that human beings try to further a variety of values by balancing them, stating that people try to find a middle road between excess and deficiency. The author develops and applies this idea to the values of economics, arguing that in the economy; freedom, justice...

   Published June 6th 2001 by Routledge