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 …

frequently regarded as the key figure in the capitalist system, academic research in economics has for a long time overlooked the …, postgraduates, and students of economics and entrepreneurship with a systematic exposition of a largely undefined field of research … Weathers (2000), 'Horatio Alger Meets the Mobility Tables', Small Business Economics, 14, 243-74 -- John McMillan and …