Readings in economic sociology / edited by Nicole Woolsey Biggart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Biggart, Nicole Woolsey.

Series:

Blackwell readers in sociology ; 8.

Blackwell readers in sociology ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economics--Sociological aspects.

Economics.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (384 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 both products and influences of society. Contains over twenty articles by classical and contemporary economic social theorists. Covers important topics on economic action, states, and markets. Includes insightful editorial introductions and further reading suggestion

Contents:

Readings in Economic Sociology; Contents; List of Contributors; Acknowledgments; Preface; Part I Foundational Statements; Introduction; 1 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; 2 Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy; Selections from the Chapter on Capital; 3 Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology; Economic Action; Religious Ethics and Economic Rationality

The Market: Its Impersonality and EthicClass, Status, Party; 4 The Great Transformation; Societies and Economic Systems; Evolution of the Market Pattern; The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money; Part II Economic Action; Introduction; 5 Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness; 6 Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street; Homo Economicus Unbound: Bond Traders on Wall Street; 7 Auctions: The Social Construction of Value; The Search for a Fair Price

8 The Structural Sources of Adventurism: The Case of the California Gold Rush9 The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions; Part III Capitalist States and Globalizing Markets; Introduction; 10 Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism; 11 Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions; 12 Rethinking Capitalism; 13 Developing Difference: Social Organization and the Rise of the Auto Industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina; 14 Learning from Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries

Part IV Economic Culture and the Culture of the EconomyIntroduction; 15 The Forms of Capital; 16 Money, Meaning, and Morality; 17 The Social Meaning of Money; The Domestic Production of Monies; 18 Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization; Money as Moral Currency; 19 Greening the Economy from the Bottom up? Lessons in Consumption from the Energy Case; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611323035

9781281323033

1281323039

9780470704547

0470704543

9780470755679

0470755679

9780470754702

0470754702

OCLC:

437218652