"The Great Recession not only shook Americans' economic faith but also prompted powerful critiques of economic institutions. This timely book explores three movements that gathered force after 2008: the rise of the benefit corporation, which requires social responsibility and es…
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This book introduces travelers--of the body or the mind--to a few simple economic concepts that will help them to think differently and more deeply about the differences between the people and the places they visitduring their journeys.
"The notion of "happily ever after" has been ingrained in many of us since childhood--meet someone, date, have the big white wedding, and enjoy your well-deserved future. But why do we buy into this idea? Is love really all we need in life? Laurie Essig invites us to flip our fe…
"Explains how financial economists turned a hypothesis about the behavior of prices into a growing and prestigious research agenda-how they went from data to theory-and so invites readers to revisit their understanding ofhow social knowledge develops and evolves"
Welcome to the "Solution Economy" We're at a critical juncture in our global economy, with the siloed ways of the past (public vs. private) quickly fading. Instead, we are witnessing a step change in how society deals with its own problems-in which government acts as just one pl…
This edited collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction-defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate-and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid …
"Market Society" provides a review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. This text is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students in sociology, economic theory and history, politics, social and political theory, anthropology and cultural studies.
"Going against the grain of contemporary neo-institutional and behavioral economics that privilege observation over understanding, Deirdre Nansen McCloskey asserts her vision of "humanomics," which keeps the math in economics but adds novels, philosophy, and history. She argues …
"The main thesis of the book is that the welfare state cannot have a sustainable future, given the overburdened state budget, unless it is managed by a strategic planning process. The book deals, moreover, with the new emergence of a nonprofit private sector that feeds a kind of…
As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-based development. While we are …
Du site de l'éd.: As economic crises, growing inequality and climate change prompt a global debate on the meaning and trajectory of development, increasing attention is focusing on 'social and solidarity economy' as a distinctive approach to sustainable and rights-based developm…
