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Sociology
Ken Roberts
The book introduces sociology’s perpetual debates: the senses in which its methods can be scientific; the relationship between theory and research; and the role of sociology in society. It stresses how sociology addresses questions that ...eBook:Find out more$22.36
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What Makes Poor Countries Poor?
Michael J. Trebilcock, Mariana Mota Prado
This important book focuses on the idea that institutions matter for development, asking what lessons we have learned from past reform efforts, and what role lawyers can play in this field.eBook:Find out more$44.76
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The International Handbook of Gender and Poverty
Edited by Sylvia Chant
In the interests of contextualising (and nuancing) the multiple interrelations between gender and poverty, Sylvia Chant has gathered writings on diverse aspects of the subject from a range of disciplinary and professional perspectives, a...eBook:Find out more$71.16
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Fair Wages
Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
Over the last decade the emergence of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has contributed towards better corporate governance by tackling such burning issues as child labour and basic human rights violations. However, as the author arg... -
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Complexity, Institutions and Public Policy
Graham Room
Graham Room argues that conventional approaches to the conceptualisation and measurement of social and economic change are unsatisfactory. As a result, researchers are ill-equipped to offer policy advice. This book offers a new analytica...eBook:Find out more$55.16
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The Elgar Companion to Hyman Minsky
Edited by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, L. Randall Wray
This Companion provides a timely and engaging treatment of Hyman Minsky’s approach to economics, which is enjoying a renewed appreciation because of its prescient analysis of the slow but sure transformation of the capitalist economy in ...eBook:Find out more$63.16
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Choice Experiments in Developing Countries
Edited by Jeff Bennett, Ekin Birol
Choice Experiments in Developing Countries is an invaluable one-stop presentation of the best-practice case studies implementing the choice experiment method in developing countries. It highlights the theoretical and practical issues tha... -
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The International Handbook of Environmental Sociology, Second Edition
Edited by Michael R. Redclift, Graham Woodgate
This thoroughly revised Handbook provides an assessment of the scope and content of environmental sociology, and sets out the intellectual and practical challenges posed by the urgent need for policy and action to address accelerating en...eBook:Find out more$64.76
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Cooperative Enterprise
Stefano Zamagni, Vera Zamagni
This eloquent book analyses the theory of the cooperative form of enterprise from an historic perspective, whilst assessing its appeal in the current economic environment.eBook:Find out more$29.56
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Social Capital
Kenneth W. Koput
This volume teaches how to understand and manage social capital to facilitate individual and organizational learning and goal attainment. Coverage includes both orchestrating relationships of others and navigating one’s own social intera...eBook:Find out more$36.76
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Fiscal Federalism
Wallace E. Oates
This reprinted edition of a classic and truly seminal book, written by one of the leading thinkers in the field, represents the first comprehensive treatment of the economic theory of multi-level government. It explores the specific econ... -
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Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Growth
Edited by Mark Setterfield
Comprising specially commissioned essays, the Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of alternative theories of economic growth. It surveys major sub-fields (including classical, Kaleckian, evolutionary, and Kaldorian growth theories...eBook:Find out more$63.16