Wiley-Blackwell Social, Methods, and Microeconomics: Contributions to Doing Economics Better: 19 (AJES - Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice)

This book consists of ten essays which speak to doing economics better.  Includes an essay on social ecological economics Features an essay on the creation of money that arises not from markets but from holy debts to deities - a very provocative essay Includes an essay on Emily Balch, the first and only economist to get a Nobel prize From the Inside Flap This book consists of ten essays which speak to doing economics better. This means doing a different kind of economics than that pursued by the mainstream-an economics in which the social is not a peripheral add-on, but infused at every level from its ontological-methodological foundations, its theoretical core, to its applied research and policy recommendations. It includes essays on Polanyi's concept of social embedded economy, social ecological economics, holy debts and the creation of money, norms, methodology, and applied economics. From the Back Cover This book consists of ten essays which speak to doing economics better. This means doing a different kind of economics than that pursued by the mainstream-an economics in which the social is not a peripheral add-on, but infused at every level from its ontological-methodological foundations, its theoretical core, to its applied research and policy recommendations. It includes essays on Polanyi's concept of social embedded economy, social ecological economics, holy debts and the creation of money, norms, methodology, and applied economics. About the Author Frederic S. Lee is a Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He has published extensively on heterodox microeconomics, on the history of heterodox economics. He was the editor of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter and the executive director of ICAPE. He is currently the editor of the American Journal of Economics and Sociology. He has published in numerous heterodox journals including the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, Review of Radical Political Economics, Review of Social Economy, and the Journal of Economic Issues.