Readings in economic sociology /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Biggart, Nicole Woolsey
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2002.
Series:Blackwell readers in sociology ; 8.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations ; Of the division of labour ; Of the principle which gives occasion to the division of labour ; Of the natural and market price of commodities / Adam Smith
  • Grundrisse: foundations of the critique of political economy ; Selections from the chapter on capital ; Economy and society: an outline of interpretive sociology ; Economic action ; Religious ethics and economic rationality ; The market: its impersonality and ethic ; Class, status, party / Max Weber
  • The great transformation ; Societies and economic systems ; Evolution of the market pattern ; The self-regulating market and the fictitious commodities: labor, land, and money / Karl Polanyi
  • Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness / Mark Granovetter
  • Making markets: opportunism and restraint on Wall Street / Mitchel Y. Abolafia
  • Homo economicus unbound: bond traders on Wall Street / Mitchel Y. Abolafia
  • Auctions: the social construction of value: The search for a fair price / Charles Smith
  • The structural sources of adventurism: the case of the California Gold Rush / Gary G. Hamilton
  • The separative self: androcentric bias in neoclassical assumptions / Paula England
  • Weber's last theory of capitalism / Randall Collins
  • Markets as politics: a political-cultural approach to market institutions / Neil Fligstein
  • Rethinking capitalism / Fred Block
  • Developing difference: social organization and the rise of the auto industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina / Nicole Woolsey biggart, Mauro F. Guillen
  • Learning from collaboration: knowledge and networks in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries / Walter W. Powell
  • The forms of capital / Pierre Bourdieu
  • Money, meaning, and morality / Bruce G. Carruthers, Wendy Nelson Espeland
  • The social meaning of money / Viviana A. Zelizer
  • The domestic production of monies
  • Opposing ambitions: gender and identity in an alternative organization / Sherryl Kleinman
  • Money as moral currency / Sherryl Kleinman
  • Greening the economy from the bottom up? Lessons in consumption from the energy case / Loren Lutzenhiser.