Anti-economics is described as the opposition to the main stream of economic thought that has existed from the Eighteenth-century to the present day. This book tells the story of anti-economics in relations to Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Walras, Keynes and Hicks as well as current economic thinkers....

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- I. Introduction -- Pharmaceutical Innovation and the Market: The Pursuit of Profit and the Amelioration of the Human Condition -- II. The Social Responsibility of Pursuing Profit -- The Unavoidable Goodness of Profit: The Cunning of Reason and the Realization of...

Engages with a range of alternative ethical perspectives and the initiatives to which they give rise. This book features case studies that covers a range of places, commodities and initiatives, including Fair Trade and organic production activism in Hungary, Fair Trade coffee in Costa Rica and...

The first and only comprehensive explanation of GIPS,including how to comply with and implement them While the CFA Institute has published Global InvestmentPerformance Standards (GIPS) for years, there has never been aserious discussion of their implementation and best use. In this new book,...

Social Banking describes a way of value-driven banking that has a positive social and ecological impact at its heart, as well as its own economic sustainability. Although it has a long and successful history, it has arguably never been more topical than it is now in the aftermath of the latest...