"This interdisciplinary volume explores and engages the key thinkers and ideas of the Austrian School of political economy to better understand aspects of the market process and its implications for everything from disaster recovery and political development to morality and monetary policy."

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...

PART I. SOCIAL CONCERNS IN ECONOMICS -- 1. Environment and sustainability / Jouni Paavola and Inge Røpke -- 2. Institutions, culture and values / Anne Mayhew -- 3. Insecurity / John Vail -- 4. Contesting the 'globalization thesis': an ethical imperative / George DeMartino -- 5. Teaching and...

There has been increasing interest and debate in recent years on the instituted nature of economic processes in general and the related ideas of the market, in particular the competitive process. This debate lies at the interface between two largely independent disciplines, economics and...

The Elgar Companion to Hayekian Economics provides an in-depth treatment of Friedrich August von Hayek's economic thought from his technical economics of the 1920s and 1930s to his broader views on the spontaneous order of a free society. Taken together, the chapters show evidence both of...