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 …

authors. Similarly, the book is a good sample of NIE's multidisciplinary approach to economics. . . The range of papers … institutional economics has witnessed a surge in interest over recent years and has attracted the attention of a growing number of …Recommended readings (Machine generated): John R. Commons (1931), 'Institutional Economics', American Economic Review …