This comprehensive second edition of The Elgar Companion to Social Economics presents an overview of a dynamic and growing field in economics 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 Elgar Companion to Economics and Philosophy aims to demonstrate exactly how these two important areas have always been linked, and to illustrate the key areas of overlap. The contributors are well-known and distinguished authors from a variety of disciplines, who have been invited both to...

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...

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...