{"title":"William A Jackson","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"economic-and-social-welfare-book-william-a-jackson-9781032063546","title":"Economic and Social Welfare","description":"\u003cp\u003eArguing for a broader understanding of welfare, with culture as a unifying theme, this book demonstrates the explanatory power of an interdisciplinary approach to economic and social welfare.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis approach highlights the narrowness of orthodox economics which, founded on individualistic and utilitarian modelling, has settled for a narrow, simplified picture of welfare that omits many relevant factors, such as production, work, community, identity, lifestyle, preference formation, belief systems, material consumption and the environment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book begins by considering definitions of welfare and advocating culture as the core concept needed to capture a whole way of life. It examines economic welfare, on dimensions such as work, income, happiness and the environment, alongside social welfare, on dimensions such as capability, community, identity and freedom. These various dimensions, usually discussed separately, can be interrelated within a larger cultural vision. Prospects for promoting welfare through cultural evolution or public welfare policies are evaluated. Unlike most studies of welfare, the book adopts an interdisciplinary perspective that pulls together numerous strands of literature from heterodox economics, other social sciences and the humanities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt offers an extensive, non-technical survey of how welfare has been portrayed in the academic literature and how the diverse views can fit within a cultural approach. 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This book argues that an extended range of theory, social as well as economic, can provide a better foundation for the portrayal of markets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book first looks at the definition of markets, their inadequate treatment in orthodox economic theory, and their historical background in the pre-capitalist and capitalist eras. It then assesses various alternatives to orthodox theory, categorised as social\/cultural, structural, functional and ethical approaches. Among the alternatives considered are institutionalist accounts, Marxian views, network models, performativity arguments, field theories, Austrian views and ethical notions of fair trade. A key finding of the book is that these diverse approaches, valuable as they are, could present a more effective challenge to orthodoxy if they were less disparate. Possibilities are investigated for a more unified theoretical alternative to orthodoxy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike most studies of markets, this book adopts a fully interdisciplinary viewpoint expressed in accessible, non-technical language. Ideas are brought together from heterodox economics, social theory, critical realism, as well as other social sciences such as sociology, anthropology and geography. 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