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 …

: economics confronts the social sciences -- 5. Economics imperialism as Kuhnian revolution? -- 6. Central bank independence …

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 …

and finance currently taking place within heterodox economics. There are many themes and facets of alternative monetary … and financial economics but two major ones can be identified …