Economic Sociology

An Introduction

By Jeff Hass

This insightful key resource presents the clearest, most comprehensive and wide ranging account of economic sociology to date. Hass presents a critical and sophisticated yet...

Published November 16th 2006 by Routledge.

The Adam Smith Review Volume 2

Edited by Vivienne Brown

Adam Smith is well recognized as a forefather of modem economics but in recent years scholars have been exploring anew the multidisciplinary nature of his...

Published November 2nd 2006 by Routledge.

Why Famines Persist in an Era of Globalization

By Stephen Devereux

The recent occurrences of famine in Ethiopia and Southern Africa have propelled this key issue back into the public arena for the first time since...

Published November 2nd 2006 by Routledge.

Introduction and Applications

By Johan J. Graafland

The primary aim of the text is to introduce the reader to the relationship between economics and ethics and to the application of economic ethics...

Published October 26th 2006 by Routledge.

Essays Inspired by Karl William Kapp's Theory of Social Costs

By Wolfram Elsner, Pietro Frigato, Paolo Ramazzotti

The Social Costs approach to the globalised capitalist market economy has gained new relevance in recent years. The present situation is one of widespread and...

Published October 19th 2006 by Routledge.

European Responses to the US Trade Embargo

By Frank Cain

Discussing a rarely researched aspect of the Cold War, this volume uses new material to examine how the United States trade embargo on the Soviet...

Published October 19th 2006 by Routledge.

Economics of the Firm

Analysis, Evolution and History

By Michael Dietrich

This book brings together some of the world's leading experts to present an interdisciplinary, critical perspective on current issues surrounding the economics of the firms....

Published October 12th 2006 by Routledge.

The Politics of Economic Crises

By Jungug Choi

Governments and Markets in East Asia examines the relationship between economic performance, elite co-operation, and political regime stability in the context of the Asian crisis, and...

Published September 29th 2006 by Routledge.

Ethics, Money and Sport

This Sporting Mammon

By Adrian Walsh, Richard GiulianottiMike McNameeJim Parry

Written from the contrasting yet complementary perspectives of sociology and philosophy, this book explores the far-reaching ethical consequences of the runaway commodification of sport, focusing...

Published September 29th 2006 by Routledge.

Warm Hands in Cold Age

Gender and Aging

Edited by Nancy Folbre, Lois Shaw, Agneta Stark

Public discussion of population aging usually focuses on the financial burden that increasingly elderly populations will impose on younger generations. Scholars give much less attention...

Published September 28th 2006 by Routledge.