Rediscovering Social Economics Beyond the Neoclassical Paradigm /

• Main Author: Johnson, Roger D. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Perspectives from Social Economics
• Subjects: Welfare economics.; Labor economics.; Economics.; Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice.; Labor Economics.

This book argues that economists need to reengage with societal issues, such as justice and fairness in distribution, that inevitably arise when discussing the basic economic problem of unlimited human wants and finite resources. Approaching the problem through a history of economic thought, Johnson...

Table of Contents:

• 1. The Foundations of Economics
• 2. The Political and Moral Dimension of Economics
• 3. The Moral and Social Problem of Scarcity
• 4. Social Welfare, Markets and Efficiency
• 5. Understanding Human Choice
• 6. Challenges to Homo Economicus
• 8. The Supply of Labor
• 10. Labor Market Equilibrium?
• 11. The Mondragón Alternative
• 12. Financial Markets and the Growth of Plutonomies
• 13. The Evolving Dialogue.