The Economic Sociology of Capitalism - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0691119589 ISBN 13: 9780691119588

Casa editrice: Princeton University Press, 2005

Riassunto

This book represents a major step forward in the use of economic sociology to illuminate the nature and workings of capitalism amid the far-reaching changes of the contemporary era of global capitalism. For the past twenty years economic sociologists have focused on mesa-level phenomena of networks, but they have done relatively little to analyze capitalism as an overall system or to show how such phenomena emerge from and shape the dynamics of capitalism. The Economic Sociology of Capitalism seeks to change this, by presenting both big-picture analyses of capitalism and more focused pieces on institutions crucial to capitalism.

The book, which includes sixteen chapters by leading scholars in economic sociology, is organized around three broad themes. The first section addresses core issues and problems in the new study of capitalism; the second considers a variety of topics concerning America, the leading capitalist economy of the world; and the third focuses attention on the question of convergence stemming from the global transformation of capitalism and the challenge of explaining institutional change.

The contributions, which follow a foreword by economic historian Avner Greif and the editor's introduction, are by Mitchel Abolafia, James Baron and Michael Hannan, Mary C. Brinton, John Campbell, Gerald Davis and Christopher Marquis, Paul DiMaggio and Joseph Cohen, Peter Evans, Neil Fligstein, John Freeman, Francis Fukuyama, Ko Kuwabara, Victor Nee, Douglass C. North, AnnaLee Saxenian, Richard Swedberg, and Viviana Zelizer.

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L'autore:

Victor Nee is Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. His books include Remaking the American Mainstream and The New Institutionalism in Sociology. Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. He is the author of Principles of Economic Sociology and Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology (both Princeton) and the coeditor of The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition (Princeton).

Contenuti:

Foreword: Institutions, Markets, and Games by Avner Greif ix
Acknowledgments xxxiii
Introduction by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg xxxv

PART I: The New Study of Capitalism 1

The Economic Sociology of Capitalism: An Introduction and Agenda by Richard Swedberg 3
Capitalism and Economic Growth by Douglass C. North 41
Organizational Dynamics of Institutional Change: Politicized Capitalism in China by Victor Nee 53
Still Disenchanted? The Modernity of Postindustrial Capitalism by Francis Fukuyama 75
The Challenges of the "Institutional Turn": New Interdisciplinary Opportunities in Development Theory by Peter Evans 90

PART 2: Institutions of American Capitalism 117

States, Markets, and Economic Growth by Neil Fligstein 119
Venture Capital and Modern Capitalism by John Freeman 144
The Economic Sociology of Organizational by Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Stanford by Project on Emerging Companies by James N. Baron and Michael T. Hannan 168
Making Sense of Recession: Toward an Interpretive by Theory of Economic Action by Mitchel Y. Abolafia 204
Information Inequality and Network Externalities: A Comparative Study of the Diffusion of Television by and the Internet by Paul DiMaggio and Joseph Cohen 227
Affective Attachment in Electronic Markets: A Sociological Study of eBay by Ko Kuwabara 268
Circuits within Capitalism by Viviana A. Zelizer 289

PART 3: Global Transformation and by Institutional Change 323

Brain Circulation and Capitalist Dynamics: Chinese by Chipmaking and the SiliconValley-Hsinchu-Shanghai Triangle by AnnaLee Saxenian 325
The Globalization of Stock Markets and Convergence in Corporate Governance by Gerald F. Davis and Christopher Marquis 352
Fiscal Sociology in an Age of Globalization: Comparing Tax Regimes in Advanced Capitalist Countries by John L. Campbell 391
Trouble in Paradise: Institutions in the Japanese by Economy and the Youth Labor Market by Mary C. Brinton 419

List of Contributors 445
Index 447

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• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0691119589
• ISBN 13: 9780691119588
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 506
• Redattore: Nee Victor