New Developments in Economic Sociology

Edited by Richard Swedberg, Professor of Sociology, Cornell University, US

• Contents:Volume I AcknowledgementsIntroduction Richard SwedbergPART ITHEORY 1. Mark Granovetter (2002), ‘A Theoretical Agenda for Economic Sociology’2. Mark Granovetter (1992), ‘Problems of Explanation in Economic Sociology’3. Pierre Bourdieu (2000), ‘Making the Economic Habitus: Algerian Workers Revisited’4. Victor Nee and Paul Ingram (1998), ‘Embeddedness and Beyond: Institutions, Exchange, and Social Structure’5. Richard Swedberg (2001), ‘Sociology and Game Theory: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives’6. V.A. Zelizer (2001), ‘Economic Sociology’PART IITHE TRADITION OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 7. Max Weber (2000), ‘Stock and Commodity Exchanges [Die Börse (1894)]; Commerce on the Stock and Commodity Exchanges [Die Börsenverkehr]’8. Fred Block (2003), ‘Karl Polanyi and the Writing of The Great Transformation’9. George Simmel (1997), ‘Money in Modern Culture’10. Joseph A. Schumpeter (2003), ‘Entrepreneur’11. John F. Sitton (1998), ‘Disembodied Capitalism: Habermas's Conception of the Economy’12. Johan Heilbron (2001), ‘Economic Sociology in France’PART IIIECONOMICS/SOCIOLOGY INTERFACE 13. Herbert A. Simon (1997), ‘The Role of Organizations in an Economy’14. Jeffrey Sachs (2000), ‘Notes on a New Sociology of Economic Development’15. Douglass C. North (1991), ‘Institutions’16. Avner Greif (1998), ‘Self-Enforcing Political Systems and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa’17. George Loewenstein (2000), ‘Emotions in Economic Theory and Economic Behavior’PART IVNETWORKS 18. Mark S. Mizruchi (1996), ‘What Do Interlocks Do? An Analysis, Critique, and Assessment of Research on Interlocking Directorates’19. Joel M. Podolny and Karen L. Page (1998), ‘Network Forms of Organization’20. Paul DiMaggio and Hugh Louch (1998), ‘Socially Embedded Consumer Transactions: For What Kinds of Purchases Do People Most Often Use Networks?’Name IndexVolume IIAcknowledgementsAn introduction by the editor to both volumes appears in Volume IPART IMARKETS 1. John Lie (1997), ‘Sociology of Markets’2. Harrison C. White (1997), ‘Varieties of Markets’3. Patrik Aspers (2001), ‘A Market in Vogue: Fashion Photography in Sweden’4. Neil Fligstein (1996), ‘Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions’PART IIFIRMS AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP 5. Gerald F. Davis (1991), ‘Agents without Principles? The Spread of the Poison Pill through the Intercorporate Network’6. Patricia H. Thornton (1999), ‘The Sociology of Entrepreneurship’7. Mark Granovetter (1995), ‘The Economic Sociology of Firms and Entrepreneurs’8. AnnaLee Saxenian (1991), ‘The Origins and Dynamics of Production Networks in Silicon Valley’PART IIIFINANCE 9. Michael Lounsbury, Paul M. Hirsch and Steven Klinkerman (1998), ‘Institutional Upheaval and Performance Variation: A Theoretical Agenda and Illustration from the Deregulation of Commercial Banks’10. Donald Mackenzie and Yuval Millo (2003), ‘Constructing a Market, Performing Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange’11. Mitchel Y. Abolafia (1998), ‘Markets as Cultures: An Ethnographic Approach’12. Karin Knorr Cetina and Urs Bruegger (2002), ‘Global Microstructures: The Virtual Societies of Financial Markets’PART IVLAW IN THE ECONOMY 13. Richard Swedberg (2003), ‘The Case for an Economic Sociology of Law’ 14. Wayne E. Baker and Robert R. Faulkner (1993), ‘The Social Organization of Conspiracy: Illegal Networks in the Heavy Electrical Equipment Industry’PART VSTRATIFICATION AND WEALTH15. Lisa A. Keister and Stephanie Moller (2000), ‘Wealth Inequality in the United States’16. Seymour Spilerman (2000), ‘Wealth and Stratification Processes’17. Martina Morris and Bruce Western (1999), ‘Inequality in Earnings at the Close of the Twentieth Century’18. Victor Nee (1989), ‘A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State Socialism’PART VIHISTORICAL AND COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY 19. Bruce G. Carruthers and Wendy Nelson Espeland (1991), ‘Accounting for Rationality: Double-Entry Bookkeeping and the Rhetoric of Economic Rationality’20. Marion Fourcade-Gourinchas (2001), ‘Politics, Institutional Structures, and the Rise of Economics: A Comparative Study’21. Alya Guseva and Akos Rona-Tas (2001), ‘Uncertainty, Risk, and Trust: Russian and American Credit Card Markets Compared’22. Frank Dobbin (2001), ‘Why the Economy Reflects the Polity: Early Rail Policy in Britain, France, and the United States’Name Index