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A cross-national, comparative investigation of patterns and dynamics of inter-group economic inequality. Experts discuss groups from Japan to India, attempts to remedy inter-group inequality and race and labor market outcomes in Brazil.

Poverty and inequality remain at the top of the global economic agenda, and the methodology of measuring poverty continues to be a key area of research. This new book, from a leading international group of scholars, offers an up to date and innovative survey of new methods for estimating poverty at the local level, as well as the most recent multidimensional methods of the dynamics of poverty.

Offers an interpretation of social enterprises as entrepreneurial organizations that pursue social objectives and are successful due to the non-self-seeking motives of their members.

This volume expands on the standard economic framework of 'global economy' by looking at the way in which economic life is framed by society and social relationships and investigates how social values influence and help determine economic values.

This work brings together practitioners from the field of social economics to address such issues as values and premises in social economics, justice, solidarity and community, repairing the dysfunction of capitalist economies, and the transition from command economies.

This book presents the first comprehensive analyis of both paid and unpaid work time, integrating a unique discussion of overwork, underwork, shortening of the working week and flexible work practices.