The Elgar companion to social economics

PART I. SOCIAL CONCERNS IN ECONOMICS -- 1. Environment and sustainability / Jouni Paavola and Inge Røpke -- 2. Institutions, culture and values / Anne Mayhew -- 3. Insecurity / John Vail -- 4. Contesting the 'globalization thesis': an ethical imperative / George DeMartino -- 5. Teaching and learning in economics / Zohreh Emami -- PART II. THE SOCIALLY EMBEDDED INDIVIDUAL -- 6. Individual preferences and decision-making / Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap -- 7. The conception of the socially embedded individual / John B. Davis -- 8. The social dimension of internal conflict / David George -- 9. The socio-economics of consumption: solutions to the problems of interest, knowledge and identity / Metin M. Coşgel -- PART III. INDIVIDUALS IN CONTEXT -- 10. Capabilities and wellbeing / Irene van Staveren -- 11. Culture, values and institutions / Paul D. Bush -- 12. Caste and diversity in India / Ashwini Deshpande -- 13. Feminism and/in economics / Edith Kuiper -- PART IV. GROWTH AND (IN-)EQUALITY -- 14. Income distribution and inequality / Frank A. Cowell -- 15. The social economics of growth and inequality / Morris Altman -- PART V. SOCIALLY EMBEDDED EXCHANGE: MARKETS -- 16. Markets / Geoffrey M. Hodgson -- 17. Are markets everywhere? Understanding contemporary processes of commodification / Luís Francisco Carvalho and João Rodrigues -- 18. Social provisioning through work / Deborah M. Figart and Ellen Mutari -- 19. Social provisioning / Marilyn Power -- PART VI. SOCIALLY EMBEDDED EXCHANGE: FIRMS -- 20. The cement of the firm: command, separation or association? / Helena Lopes and José Castro Caldas -- 21. Knowledge spillover entrepreneurship and innovation in large and small firms / David B. Audretsch and Max Keilbach -- 22. Firms, managers and restructuring: implications of a social economics view / Hans Schenk -- 23. Community-oriented versus market-oriented cooperative organizations in developing countries: is open membership an indicator for success or failure? / Clemens Lutz -- 24. Workplace democracy: current state and future directions of the literature / Michael D. Carr and Philip Mellizo -- PART VII. SOCIAL RELATIONS IN THE ECONOMY -- 25. Social capital: a critique and extension / Nicolas Sirven -- 26. Organizations as social networks / Rick Aalbers and Wilfred Dolfsma -- 27. Communication in the economy: the example of innovation / Stefan Kesting -- 28. Methodological approaches in economics and anthropology / Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray -- PART VIII. FINANCE, MONEY AND POLICY -- 29. Saving, the stock market and pension systems / Martha A. Starr -- 30. Monetary policy / Sheila C. Dow -- 31. Banking, finance and money: a social economics approach / L. Randall Wray -- 32. Finance, development and social economics in view of the global crisis / Ilene Grabel -- PART IX. THE STATE -- 33. The welfare state and privatization / Robert McMaster -- 34. The states of social economics / Charlie Dannreuther and Oliver Kessler -- PART X. LAW AND THE ECONOMY -- 35. Law and social economics: a Coasean perspective / David Campbell and Matthias Klaes -- 36. Securing an ethical foundation for law and social economics / Mark D. White -- PART XI. THE LONG VIEW -- 37. Technology and long waves in economic growth / Alfred Kleinknecht and Gerben van der Velde -- 38. Analysing regional development: from territorial innovation to path-dependent geography / Frank Moulaert and Abid Mehmood -- 39. Radical institutionalism / William M. Dugger -- 40. Exploitation and surplus / Phillip Anthony O'Hara