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 larger web of social and ethical relationships. It also regards …

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 relationships. It also regards economics and ethics as essentially connected …

known yet equally important economists. Mark Blaug demonstrates that modern economics is an accumulated heritage of specific … ideas of individual economists. Mark Blaug has brought his formidable powers to bear on the history of economics producing a … companion that nobody interested in economics will want to be without. The reprint of this classic work will be an essential …