The sociology of economic life / edited by Mark Granovetter and Richard Swedberg.

Other author Granovetter, Mark S.
Other author Swedberg, Richard.
Format Book
Edition3rd ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Westview Press, ©2011.
Descriptionxli, 545 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects
Economics--Sociological aspects.
Capitalism.
Economic history.

Contents The economy as instituted process / Karl Polanyi -- Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness / Mark Granovetter -- The impact of social structure on economic outcomes / Mark Granovetter -- Max Weber's central text in economic sociology / Richard Swedberg -- The forms of capital / Pierre Bourdieu -- Embeddedness and immigration: notes on the social determinants of economic action / Alejandro Portes and Julia Sensenbrenner -- The bazaar economy: information and search in peasant marketing / Clifford Geertz -- Human values and the market: the case of life insurance and death in 19th century America / Viviana A. Zelizer -- The transformation of morals in markets: death, benefits, and the exchange of life insurance policies / Sarah Quinn -- Economic and sociological approaches to gender inequality in pay / William P. Bridges and Robert L. Nelson -- Non-contractual relations in business; a preliminary study / Stewart Macaulay -- Social structure and competition in interfirm networks: the paradox of embeddedness / Brian Uzzi -- What is sociological about banks and banking? / Bruce Carruthers -- Constructing a market, performing a theory: the historical sociology of a financial derivatives exchange / Donald MacKenzie and Yuval Millo -- Group dynamics and intergroup relations / George Strauss -- Selection from Men who manage / Melville Dalton -- Bureaucratic and craft administration of production: a comparative study / Arthur Stinchcombe -- Processing fads and fashions: an organization-set analysis of cultural industry systems / Paul M. Hirsch -- Inside-out: regional networks and industrial adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128 / AnnaLee Saxenian -- Weber's last theory of capitalism: a systematization / Randall Collins -- Why the economy reflects the polity: early rail policy in Britain, France and the United States / Frank Dobbin -- E pluribus unum? The varieties of capitalism / Wolfgang Streeck -- Goodwill and the spirit of market capitalism / Ronald Dore -- Developing difference: social organization and the rise of the auto industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina / Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Mauro F. Guillén -- Transitions from state socialism: a property rights perspective / Andrew Walder.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010043973
ISBN9780813344553 (alk. paper)
ISBN0813344557 (alk. paper)

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