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Presents advances in areas which consider both the individual and the group when measuring inequalities and well-being. This book covers topics such as relative deprivation and happiness, domains where even economists have now recognized the importance of reference groups in the assessment of individuals' well-being.

Examining the crucial topic of race relations, this book explores the economic and social environments that play a significant role in determining economic outcomes and why racial disparities persist. It compares how various racial groups fare and are affected in different ways by economic and social institution.

Two of the important economics treatise are Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" and "Wealth of Nations" and Milton Friedman's "Capitalism and Freedom". This book provides a rhetorical analysis of these texts arguing that both Smith and Friedman use argumentative and narrative depictions of character to reinforce a sense of societal decorum.

Presents an analysis of Marxian Political Economy. This book focuses in on the social theory underpinning much of Marx's writing and as such provides a fresh perspective on his defining work - "Das Kapital".

Collected here are wide-ranging contributions to economics in general, and to post-Keynesian economics in particular by leading economists.

Offers a productive engagement between economics and literature where the tools of literary and cultural theory are applied to the discipline of economics.

Proposing an interdisciplinary approach to the study of human problem solving, choice, decision-making and change to explain economic transactions and the nature and evolution of organizations and institutions, this text contributes: consumer theory, economics of the firm, economics of innovation, evolutionary economics and experimental economics.

The core of the book consists of a selection of papers presented at an international workshop where researchers from a variety of fields and countries discussed the connections between inherited wealth, justice and equality. The volume is complemented by a few other papers commissioned by the editors. The contributions cover historical, political, philosophical, sociological and economic aspects.

Liberalism is typically misconceived as a philosophy of individualism, which cannot accept that man exists in society and that man's values are shaped by that society. This book attempts to identify the role of community and society in the political and social thought of leading liberal social philosophers of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Explains long-term economic development in terms of the cognitive features of human learning and communication processes. The text links the latter to theories of institutional development based on asymmetric information in production processes; to economies of scale in enforcement technology; and to macroeconomic growth theories.

Concerns over affordability and accountability have tended to direct focus away from the central aims of liberal learning, such as preparing minds for free inquiry and inculcating the habits of mind, practical skills, and values necessary for effective participation in civil society. The contributors to this volume seek to understand better what it is that can be done on a day-to-day basis within institutions of liberal learning that shape the habits and practices of civil society. The central argument of this volume is that institutions of liberal learning are critical to a developing and flourishing civil society. It is within these "civil society incubators" that the habits of open discourse are practiced and honed; that a collaborative (often contentious) commitment to truth seeking serves as the rules that govern our work together; that the rules of personal and widespread social cooperation are established, practiced, and refined. Many have made this argument as it relates to community based learning, and we explore that theme here as well. But acquiring and practicing the habits of civil society recur within and throughout the college context-in the classrooms, in college governance structures, in professional associations, in collaborative research, in the residence halls, and on the playing field. To put it another way, when they are at their best, institutions of liberal learning are contexts in which students learn how to live in a free society and learn the art of self-governance.