摘要: The term or title ‘social economics’ is by no means a new one, the American J. M. Clark, for example, used it as of book published in 1936, and indeed there has been Hagenbuch's Cambridge Economics Handbook that first 1958. There does, however, appear to be an increasing recognition need development approach economic social policy problems could, want better expression termed socioeconomic character. evidence this suggestion can gathered from very rapid growth literature last few years dedicated methodological doubts about wisdom current trends, developments values main discipline economics. This increase “anti‐economics” literature, course provides only negative rationale, but seen itself broadly reflective certain fundamental changes nature parameters contemporary advanced industrial society. Changes, will argued, require different more integrated kind science policies than hitherto developed.