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Cover The Evolution of Social Innovation
The Evolution of Social Innovation
Building Resilience Through Transitions
Editors: Frances Westley, Katherine McGowan, and Ola Tjörnbo
In a time where governments and civil society organizations are putting ever-greater stock in social innovation as a route to transformation, understanding what characterizes social innovation with transformative potential is important. Exciting and promising ideas seem to die out as often as they take flight, and market mechanisms, which go a long way towards contributing to successful technical innovations, play an insignificant role in social innovations. The cases in this book explore the evolution of successful social innovation through time, from the ideas which catalysed social and system entrepreneurs to create new processes, platforms, projects and programs to fundamental social shifts in culture, economics, laws and policies which occurred as a result. In doing so, the authors shed light on how to recognize transformative potential in the early stage innovations we see today.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Dec 2017
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781786431158
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Social and Political Science 2017
Cover The Elgar Companion to Social Economics, Second Edition
The Elgar Companion to Social Economics, Second Edition
Editors: John B. Davis and Wilfred Dolfsma
Social economics is a dynamic and growing field that emphasizes the key roles social values play in the economy and economic life. This second edition of the Elgar Companion to Social Economics revises all chapters from the first edition, and adds important new chapters to reflect the expansion and development of social economics. The expert contributions explain a wide range of recent developments across different subject areas and topics in the field, mapping out possible directions of future social economic research. Social economics treats the economy and economics as embedded in a web of social and ethical relationships. It considers economics and ethics as essentially connected, and adds values such as justice, fairness, dignity, well-being, freedom, and equality to the standard emphasis on efficiency. This book will be a leading resource and guide to social economics for many years to come.
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Reference & Dictionaries
Publication Date:
29 May 2015
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783478545
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Economics 2015
Cover Concerned Markets
Concerned Markets
Economic Ordering for Multiple Values
Editors: Susi Geiger, Debbie Harrison, Hans Kjellberg, and Alexandre Mallard
When political, social, technological and economic interests, values, and perspectives interact, market order and performance become contentious issues of debate. Such ‘hot’ situations are becoming increasingly common and make for rich sites of research. With expert empirical contributions investigating the organization of such ‘concerned’ markets, this book is positioned at the centre of the rapidly growing area of interdisciplinary market studies. Markets investigated include those for palm oil, primary health care and functional foods. The authors also examine markets and environmental concerns as well as better market design for those at the bottom of the pyramid.
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Monograph Book
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28 Nov 2014
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781782549758
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Business 2014
Cover Towards a Cultural Political Economy
Towards a Cultural Political Economy
Putting Culture in its Place in Political Economy
Ngai-Ling Sum and Bob Jessop
This fascinating volume offers a critique of recent institutional and cultural turns in heterodox economics and political economy. Using seven case studies as examples, the authors explore how research on sense- and meaning-making can deepen critical studies in political economy, illuminating its role in critiquing the specific categories, contradictions and crisis-tendencies of capitalism.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
29 Nov 2013
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857930712
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Economics 2013
Cover Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy
Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy
Agile Decision-Making in a Turbulent World
Graham Room
Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result, researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytical approach, combining complexity science and institutionalism.
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Monograph Book
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29 Jul 2011
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9780857932648
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Social And Political Science 2011
Cover Beyond the Regulation Approach
Beyond the Regulation Approach
Putting Capitalist Economies in their Place
Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum
This book presents a detailed and critical account of the regulation approach in institutional and evolutionary economics. Offering both a theoretical commentary and a range of empirical examples, it identifies the successes and failures of the regulation approach as an explanatory theory, and proposes new guidelines for its further development.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
24 Feb 2006
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781845428907
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Economics 2010 and before
Cover Democracy and Exchange
Democracy and Exchange
Schumpeter, Galbraith, T.H. Marshall, Titmuss and Adam Smith
David Reisman
Democracy is the rule of the people. Exchange is supply and demand. Individualism, agreement, tolerance and choice are the underlying values that make possible the productive collaboration of the market and the state. This book assesses the theories of democracy and exchange of five interdisciplinary thinkers who tried to unite political and economic reasoning into a single theory of moderation and pragmatic management.
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
27 Jul 2005
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781845426828
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Economics 2010 and before
Cover Incentives to Improve Education
Incentives to Improve Education
A New Perspective
Robert McMeekin
Incentives to Improve Education identifies three categories of incentives: rewards, (financial rewards for teachers), competition (educational choice, often in the form of payment for education by voucher) and threats (introduction of external standards and accountability for performance).
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Monograph Book
Publication Date:
26 Feb 2003
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4337/9781781952962
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Economics 2010 and before