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Vilfredo Pareto and the birth of modern microeconomics
Bruni, Luigino - 2002
wars than peace : Pareto and English economists -- 6. A Unitarian reading of Pareto's paradoxes in the theory of choice …. This book reconstructs the genesis and significance of Pareto's theory of choice which is Pareto's greatest contribution to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420103
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The Elgar companion to social economics
Davis, John Bryan (ed.); Dolfsma, Wilfred (ed.) - 2015 - 2nd ed
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850811
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The Elgar companion to social economics
Davis, John Bryan (contributor);  … - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851593
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The economics of sin : rational choice or no choice at all?
Cameron, Samuel - 2002
1. Introduction -- 2. Tools of the trade : rational choice -- 3. Religion -- 4. Greed, lust, sloth and waste -- 5. Envy and jealousy -- 6. Lies and deceit -- 7. Matters of life and death -- 8. Addiction -- 9. Adultery -- 10. Prostitution -- 11. Conclusion.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420111
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Equality, rights, and the autonomous self : toward a conservative economics
Roth, Timothy P. - 2004
political preferences, and regards the economist's utilitarian social welfare theory as instrumental to the achievement of … indeterminacy of social welfare theory's fundamental theoretical constructs. In contrast, the author shows that Kant's 'two points … grounded in Kant's 'two points of view', that utilitarian social welfare theory cannot be instrumental to the achievement of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014474146
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Market, state, and feminism : the economics of feminist policy
Dawson, Graham; Hatt, Sue; Watson-Brown, Linda; Baxter, … - 2000
philosophical basis of free market feminism, challenging its masculine assumptions about rationality and individualism. The authors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473922
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Reflections of eminent economists
Arrow, Kenneth Joseph (contributor);  … - 2004
In this collection of autobiographical essays, 26 prominent scholars detail their profes sional development, while offering insight into their lives and philosophies. With candor and humor they relate how they came to the field of economics, as well as how their views have evolved over the years
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850776
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The Elgar companion to economics and philosophy
Marciano, Alain (contributor); Davis, John Bryan (contributor) - 2004
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851384
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Handbook of research methods in corporate social responsibility
Crowther, David (contributor);  … - 2017
Contents: Introduction / David Crowther and Linne Marie Lauesen -- Part I: Methodology planning -- 1. Grounded theory …: Quantitative methods -- 7. Game theory as a research tool for sustainability / Shahla Seifi -- 8. Key concerns in longitudinal …. Yekini -- 15. Ethnographic research methods in CSR research : building theory out of people's everyday life with materials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012419955
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Handbook of alternative theories of political economy
Stilwell, Frank J. B. (ed.); Primrose, David (ed.);  … - 2022
, evolutionary, and feminist approaches, recent studies of capital as power, modern money theory, behavioural economics, social …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013331164