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 …

behavioral and experimental economics, neuroeconomics, new welfare theory, happiness and subjective well-being research …, geographical economics, complexity and computational economics, agent-based modeling, evolutionary thinking, macroeconomics and … Keynesianism after the crisis, and new thinking about the status of the economics profession and the role of the media in economics …

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 …