Böcker i Economics as Social Theory-serien

This ground-breaking volume brings together the essays of top theorists including Arjo Klamer, Deirdre McCloskey, Julie Nelson, Shaun Hargreaves-Heap and Philip Miroswki on a diverse range of topics.

This book challenges the view that an alternative to Western capitalism is neither possible nor desirable. Without proposing a static blueprint, the author explores a new possible scenario.

A fresh look at how women largely carry the costs of caring for themselves, the children and other dependents, with an analysis of individual choices within interlocking structures of constraint based on gender, sex, age, nation, race and class.

A team of expert international contributors explore the structures and effects of interdependencies between individual subjectivities engaged in economic activity.

Provides an examination of two opposing viewpoints and covers a discussion of the ethical boundaries of markets, the role of private property rights in environmental protection, the nature of sustainability and the valuation of goods over time. This book is suitable for students studying courses in ecological and environmental economics.

Argues that economics has become a monolithic science, variously described as formalistic and autistic with neoclassical orthodoxy reigning supreme. This book details how political economy became economics through the desocialisation and the dehistoricisation of the dismal science, accompanied by its separation from the other social sciences.

Through a series of examples, this collection shows how Marxian class analysis can be used to challenge existing modes of thought and produce new insights about the problems of capitalist development.