The Handbook of Economic Sociology - Rilegato

Smelser, Neil J.

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ISBN 10: 0691034486 ISBN 13: 9780691034485

Casa editrice: Princeton Univ Pr, 1994

Riassunto

During recent years social scientists have come to reaffirm that understanding almost any facet of social life requires a simultaneous grasp of how economic institutions work and how they are influenced by culture. Sociology, and especially economic sociology, is well equipped to be of assistance in this endeavor. Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg bring together leading sociologists, economists, and political scientists in The Handbook of Economic Sociology, the first comprehensive view of this vital and growing field.
Here more than forty contributors examine the theoretical and empirical evolution of economic sociology; the social foundations of modern economic organizations; the interaction of economic factors with schools, the family, law, religion, work, and other institutions; and economic systems in historical, cross-cultural, and political perspectives. With the burgeoning of the field in the last decade, a definitive account is long overdue. Original and far-reaching, The Handbook of Economic Sociology provides a state-of-the-art overview that will appeal not only to sociologists and economists, but to all scholars who are interested in the impact of economics on the lives of people and nations.

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Recensione:

"This excellent volume is a compilation of some of the best writing in this field over the past decade, including basic works like Oliver Williamson's transaction cost theory of the firm, and [is] a helpful comparison of economic sociology to mainstream economics"--Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs

"A unique and invaluable survey of this rapidly developing field of scholarship."--Choice

Contenuti:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
1	The Sociological Perspective on the Economy	3
2	Culture and Economy	27
3	The Return of Institutional Economics	58
4	Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory	77
5	Evolutionary Theorizing about Economic Change	108
6	Learning by Monitoring: The Institutions of Economic Development	137
7	A Rational Choice Perspective on Economic Sociology	166
8	Civilizations and the Organization of Economics	183
9	The International Economy and Economic Development	206
10	The Socialist Economic System	234
11	Markets as Social Structures	255
12	Capitalist Work and Labor Markets	283
13	Money, Banking, and Financial Markets	313
14	Trade, Transportation, and Spatial Distribution	342
15	Networks and Economic Life	368
16	Consumption, Preferences, and Changing Lifestyles	403
17	The Informal Economy and Its Paradoxes	426
18	Business Groups	453
19	Entrepreneurship and Management	476
20	Firms, Wages, and Incentives	504
21	Firms and Their Environments	529
22	Measuring Performance in Economic Organizations	556
23	Education and the Economy	581
24	Gender and the Economy	600
25	Religion and Economic Life	620
26	The Ethnic Economy	647
27	Labor and Leisure	672
28	The Roles of the State in the Economy	691
29	Welfare States and the Economy	711
30	The Sociology of Distribution and Redistribution	733
31	The Economy and the Environment	766
	About the Authors	799
	Name Index	805
	Subject Index	825

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• Editore: Princeton Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0691034486
• ISBN 13: 9780691034485
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 835
• Redattore: Smelser Neil J., Swedberg Richard