Readings in economic sociology /
These articles, over thirty in total, reflect the best and latest thought in the exciting field of economic sociology. Beginning with the foundation of Smith, Marx, Engels and Polanyi, the volume gathers some of the best writings by economic sociologists that consider national and world economies as...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Malden, Mass. :
Blackwell,
2002.
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| Series: | Blackwell readers in sociology ;
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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.