Advancing Socio-Economics

J. Rogers Hollingsworth is professor of sociology and history at the University of Wisconsin. He is the author or editor of numerous books and articles on comparative political economy, and past president of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Karl H. MYller is head of WISDOM-Research, Austria's social science infrastructure center on data archiving and method-development, and was previously head of the Departments of Political Science and Sociology at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Vienna. Ellen Jane Hollingsworth is a member of the University of Wisconsin Department of Sociology and formerly a member of the Institute for Research on Poverty.David Gear is Associate Research Specialist at the University of Wisconsin (Madison). His research activities cover many areas in the natural and social sciences as well as engineering.

• Chapter 1 PrefaceChapter 2 Advancing Socio-EconomicsPart 3 Part I: On Socio-Economic Concepts and MethodsChapter 4 On Multi-Level AnalysisChapter 5 Towards a Socio-Economic ParadigmChapter 6 The Future of Socio-Economics and of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-EconomicsChapter 7 On Socio-Economic EmbeddednessPart 8 Part II: On InstitutionsChapter 9 On Institutional EmbeddednessChapter 10 Actors, Paradigms, and Institutional Dynamics: The Theory of Social Rule Systems Applied to Radical ReformsChapter 11 Institutional Blindness in Modern EconomicsChapter 12 Market Institutions as Communicating Vessels: Changes between Economic Coordination Principles as a Consequence of Deregulation PoliciesChapter 13 Civil Society and Social Order: Demarcating and Combining Market, State, and CommunityPart 14 Part III: On Social Systems of Production—and BeyondChapter 15 Social Systems of Production and BeyondChapter 16 Globalization and Economic Adjustment in GermanyChapter 17 National Institutional Frameworks and High-Technology Innovation in Germany: The Case of BiotechnologyChapter 18 The Financial System of Industrial Finance in the Social System of Production, 1924–1990Chapter 19 The Role of Institutional Processes in the Formation of Worker Cooperatives in IsraelChapter 20 Exporting the American Model—Historical Roots of GlobalizationChapter 21 Institutional Pathways, Networks, and the Differentiation of National Economies

This is a rich collection, with important contributions by European and U.S. authors that deepen our understanding of the varied institutional terrains of capitalist economies.