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Routledge Advances in Social Economics

Series Editor: John B Davis

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.　

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Living Wage Movements

Global Perspectives

Edited by Deborah M. Figart

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

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 resurfaced in the twenty-first century, only on a global scale: 'sweated' labour, macroeconomic instability, and job...

Published September 11th 2012 by Routledge
The Economics of Social Responsibility

The World of Social Enterprises

Edited by Carlo Borzaga, Leonardo Becchetti

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

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 the impact of social enterprises on the provision of general-interest services, work integration,...

Published May 29th 2012 by Routledge
The Capability Approach

Development Practice and Public Policy in the Asia-Pacific Region

Edited by Francesca Panzironi, Katharine Gelber

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

This book provides a unique laboratory of ‘capabilities in practice’ in the Asia-Pacific region. It explores the application of the capability approach in development practice and public policy from a multidisciplinary perspective by bringing together scholars and practitioners from a wide range of...

Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
Ethics and the Market

Insights from Social Economics

By Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma, Deborah M. Figart

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
Financial Exclusion and the Poverty Trap

Overcoming Deprivation in the Inner City

By Pamela Lenton, Paul Mosley

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

The persistence of poverty hurts us all, and attacking poverty is a major policy objective everywhere. In Britain, the main political parties have an anti-poverty mandate and in particular an agreed commitment to eliminate child poverty by 2020, but there is controversy over how this should be done...

Published October 18th 2011 by Routledge
The Political Economy of Consumer Behavior

Contesting Consumption

By Bruce Pietrykowski

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

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 what makes consumption meaningful. By contrast, economists have been content to hold onto theories of consumption that depend on a...

Published September 25th 2011 by Routledge
Socio-economic Mobility and Low-status Minorities

Slow roads to progress

By Jacob Meerman

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

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, and always victims of their fellow citizens. The book asks why these socially excluded groups remain at...

Published August 16th 2011 by Routledge
Elements of an Evolutionary Theory of Welfare

Assessing Welfare When Preferences Change

By Martin Binder

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

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 welfare is the satisfaction of the individual’s given and unchanging preferences, but recent work in behavioural economics has called this into...

Published April 25th 2010 by Routledge
Global Social Economy

Development, work and policy

Edited by John B. Davis

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

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 transformation of work and use of time in internationalizing economies, cross-country developments in gender, poverty, and...

Published September 3rd 2009 by Routledge
Boundaries of Clan and Color

Transnational Comparisons of Inter-Group Disparity

Edited by William Darity, Ashwini Deshpande

Series: Routledge Advances in Social Economics

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. Virtually every nation is comprised of a group whose material well-being is sharply depressed...

Published May 21st 2003 by Routledge