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Interdisciplinary Economics
Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics
Kenneth Boulding was a prolific writer across so many different fields that not only is he often much referred to and cited, he is considered a core member of many of these fields. Boulding is the quintessential interdisciplinary scholar. He died in 1993, but he has left a legacy in economics,...
To Be Published November 30th 2012 by Routledge
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Ethics and the Market
Insights from Social Economics
Series: Routledge Advances in 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 society in economic theorizing. Much existing economic theory overlooks ethics. Rather than situating the market and values...
Published November 27th 2011 by Routledge
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Knowledge Economies
Organization, location and innovation
Series: Routledge Studies in Global Competition
This book makes a strong and coherent contribution to the discussion of the knowledge economy and of innovation, offering a range of theoretical insights from different disciplinary perspectives. The role of knowledge, knowledge development, and knowledge diffusion is discussed at the micro level...
Published November 23rd 2009 by Routledge
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Consuming Symbolic Goods
Identity and Commitment, Values and Economics
The phenomenon of consumption has increasingly drawn attention from economists. While the ‘sole purpose of production is consumption’, as Adam Smith has claimed, economists have up to recently generally ignored the topic. This book brings together a range of different perspectives on the topic of...
Published February 19th 2009 by Routledge