Deborah M Figart: 5 books

Book cover of Just One More Hand

Just One More Hand

Life in the Casino Economy

by Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015

Just One More Hand tells a story that workers all over can relate to: an industry that promised a solid and stable livelihood is being transformed by competitive pressures, causing employees to lose their economic footing. What seemed like a good job one day becomes a bad job the next. Incorporating...
Book cover of Ethics and the Market

Ethics and the Market

Insights from Social Economics

by Betsy Jane Clary, Wilfred Dolfsma, Deborah M. Figart
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006

Comprising cutting-edge work on the state of social economics today, this theoretically diverse book includes strong emphasis on the role of ethics, morality, identity, and society in economic theorizing. Much existing economic theory overlooks ethics. Rather than situating the market and values...
Book cover of Stories of Progressive Institutional Change

Stories of Progressive Institutional Change

Challenges to the Neoliberal Economy

by Deborah M. Figart
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2017

This Palgrave Pivot presents a series of political economy short stories of collective agency, weaving together the history of a progressive change with a discussion of the role of institutions to effect change. These stories highlight sustained activism around valuing caring, ending discrimination,...
Book cover of Women and the Economy: A Reader
by Ellen Mutari, Deborah M. Figart
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015

This reader is designed for use as a primary or supplementary text for courses on women's role in the economy. Both interdisciplinary and heterodox in its approach, it showcases feminist economic analyses that utilize insights from institutionalism as well as neoclassical economics. Including both...
Book cover of Living Wage Movements

Living Wage Movements

Global Perspectives

by Deborah M. Figart
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004

Living wage activism has spanned time and space, reaching across decades and national boundaries. Conditions generating living wage movements early in the twentieth century have resurfaced in the twenty-first century, only on a global scale: 'sweated' labour, macroeconomic instability, and job insecurity. Upon...
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