This timely and much-needed Handbook reconsiders an old topic from a fresh perspective, raising a number of new, interesting and worthwhile issues in the wake of ten years of globalization. This comprehensive analysis illustrates that old-style industrial policies whereby the government directly...

As this comprehensive Companion demonstrates, social economics is a dynamic and growing field that emphasizes the key role that values play in the economy and in economic life. Social economics treats the economy and economics as being embedded in the larger web of social and ethical...

1. Recent economic developments and the prospects of industrial organization -- I Assessing Industrial Economics -- 2. On market theory -- 3. Some challenges for industrial economics -- 4. Neoclassical models of industrial organization: an assessment and comparison with alternative perspectives...

Multidisciplinary economists should be at home in their own discipline and meet the international standards of economic teaching and research that the discipline has developed. This work uses the insights of other disciplines and examines what consequences their contributions have for economic...