Consumption forms a major part of people's lives. As such, geographers, historians of technology and sociologists have devoted much attention to trying to figure out what makes consumption meaningful. By contrast, economists have been content to hold onto theories of consumption that depend on a self-interested representative agent making utility maximizing decisions.
Pietrykowski develops this alternative account through the recovery of past attempts to forge a different analytical approach to the study of consumption. In particular, theories of consumption espoused by...
Consumption forms a major part of people's lives. As such, geographers, historians of technology and sociologists have devoted much attention to tr...
The text concentrates on socially excluded minorities looking at why such groups remain among 'the poorest of the poor' and focusing on US African Americans, Japan's Burakumin, Afro-Cubans, the Dalits of India, and the Quechua and Aymara of Bolivia.
The text concentrates on socially excluded minorities looking at why such groups remain among 'the poorest of the poor' and focusing on US African Ame...
This volume expands on the standard economic framework of 'global economy' by looking at the way in which economic life is framed by society and social relationships and investigates how social values influence and help determine economic values.
This volume expands on the standard economic framework of 'global economy' by looking at the way in which economic life is framed by society and socia...
This book offers a rethinking of the burgeoning research on not-for-profit organizations and socially responsible economics. Adopting a comparative approach, the chapters explore and reinterpret the impact of social enterprises on the provision of general-interest services, work integration, microfinance, and fair trade, and show how these enterprises form the hub of an emerging economy of social responsibility. The book provides a new interpretation of social enterprises as entrepreneurial organizations that pursue social objectives and are successful due to the non-self-seeking motives...
This book offers a rethinking of the burgeoning research on not-for-profit organizations and socially responsible economics. Adopting a comparative...
This title presents a picture of the impact of financial measures against poverty in various cities and draws conclusions for policy. It is required reading for all those interested in anti-poverty policy, financial markets and community development in Britain and internationally.
This title presents a picture of the impact of financial measures against poverty in various cities and draws conclusions for policy. It is required r...
The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades. Cost-utility analysis is the most commonly used method for determining the allocation of these resources, but this book counters the argument that overcoming its inherent imbalances is simply a question of implementing methodological changes."
The Economics of Resource Allocation in Health Care "represents the first comprehensive analysis of equity weighting in health care resource allocation that offers a fundamental critique of its basic framework. It offers a...
The question of how to allocate scarce medical resources has become an important public policy issue in recent decades. Cost-utility analysis is th...
