Carlo Trigilia is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Florence. He is the author of Sviluppo senza autonomia. Effetti perversi delle politiche nel Mezzogiorno, which won the Amalfi European Prize in Sociology.

• Preface. Introduction: What is Economic Sociology?.Part I: The Classics and the Sociology of Capitalism:.1. From Classical Economics to Economic Sociology.2. The Origins and Developments of Capitalism: Simmel and Sombart.3. Capitalism and the Western Civilization: Max Weber.4. The Social Consequences of Capitalism: Durkheim and Veblen.5. The Great Depression and the Decline of Liberal Capitalism: Polanyi and Schumpeter.Part II: Themes and Routes of Contemporary Economic Sociology:.6. The Legacy of the Classics and the New Boundaries between Economics and Sociology.7. Modernization and Development of Backward Areas.8. The Keynesian Welfare State and Comparative Political Economy.9. The Crisis of Fordism and New Economic Sociology.10. Globalization and the Diversity of Capitalisms.Notes.References.

"Carlo Trigilia's book marks a major milestone in the development of economic sociology. For the first time, we have a theoretically sophisticated and lucid account of the field's evolution from 1890 to the present. Trigilia is masterful in demonstrating the theoretical and methodological continuities from Weber, Sombart, Durkheim, Polanyi, and others to the new economic sociology of the past two decades. This is a must read not only for economic sociologists but for everyone who wants to understand the history of social theory." Fred Block, University of California at Davis "With Trigilia's book, sociology has finally returned to its original territory, after it seemed to have lost it forever to economics. With impressive erudition, the author moves from the classics to the modern debate on varieties of capitalism." Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies