Forty-seven international academics, researchers, and consultants contribute 36 papers highlighting the salient themes and leading ideas of contemporary social economics, particularly as they have been broadly developed in recent research, and as they are likely to contribute to and influence social economics and social economic policy in the future. The authors consider the social concerns, social relationships and social contexts that embed the economy, the market, and individuals themselves. The 36 chapters are organized into ten thematic sections, each preceded by summaries of the chapters included in that part, which focus on social concerns in economics; the socially embedded individual; individuals in context; growth and (in-)equality; socially embedded exchange--markets; socially embedded exchange--firms; social relations in the economy; finance, money, and policy; the state; law and the economy; and the long view of economic growth. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)