Emily Barman (2016), Caring Capitalism. The Meaning and Measure of Social Value

The purpose of the book is to analyse the effect of the embrace of market-based solutions to social problems on the meaning and measure of social value. The book is organized in three parts. The first part focuses on the question of social value for social purpose organizations (nonprofit organizations and social enterprises) outside of the market. The second part deals with ‘‘market monitors’’, meaning civil society actors who aim to (privately) regulate corporations to hold them accountable for the (social) consequences of their production processes. In the third part, the author presents some case studies of ‘‘caring capitalism’’: the rationale of production of social and shareholder value by corporations is evaluated using market indicators.