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During recent years social scientists have come to reaffirm that understanding almost any facet of social life requires a simultaneous understanding of how economic institutions work and how they are influenced by values and norms. 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.

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• Preface(p. vii)
• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• Part I General Concerns
• Chapter 1 Introducing Economic Sociology(p. 3)
• Chapter 2 Comparative and Historical Approaches to Economic Sociology(p. 26)
• Chapter 3 The New Institutionalisms in Economics and Sociology(p. 49)
• Chapter 4 Principles of an Economic Anthropology(p. 75)
• Chapter 5 Behavioral Economics(p. 90)
• Chapter 6 Emotions and the Economy(p. 109)
• Part II The Economic Core: Economic Systems, Institutions, and Behavior
• Section A The Economy in a Macrosociological Perpective
• Chapter 7 The Economic Sociology of the Ancient Mediterranean World(p. 131)
• Chapter 8 The Global Economy: Organization, Governance, and Development(p. 160)
• Chapter 9 The Political and Economic Sociology of International Economic Arrangements(p. 183)
• Chapter 10 Post-Communist Economic Systems(p. 205)
• Section B The Sociology of Economic Institutions and Economic Behavior
• Chapter 11 Markets in Society(p. 233)
• Chapter 12 The Sociology of Labor Markets and Trade Unions(p. 254)
• Chapter 13 Banking and Financial Markets(p. 284)
• Chapter 14 Sociology of Work and Occupations(p. 307)
• Chapter 15 Culture and Consumption(p. 331)
• Chapter 16 The Sociology of Money and Credit(p. 355)
• Chapter 17 Networks and Economic Life Laurel Smith-Doerr Smith-Doerr, Laurel Walter W. Powell Powell, Walter W.
• Chapter 18 The Informal Economy(p. 403)
• Section C The Sociology of Firms, Organizations, and Industries
• Chapter 19 Business Groups and Social Organization(p. 429)
• Chapter 20 Entrepreneurship(p. 451)
• Chapter 21 Firms and Environments(p. 478)
• Part III Intersections of the Economy
• Chapter 22 The State and the Economy(p. 505)
• Chapter 23 A Sociological Approach to Law and the Economy(p. 527)
• Chapter 24 Welfare States and the Economy Evelyne(p. 552)
• Chapter 25 Education and the Economy(p. 575)
• Chapter 26 New Directions in the Study of Religion and Economic Life(p. 603)
• Chapter 27 Gender and Economic Sociology(p. 627)
• Chapter 28 The Ethnic Economy(p. 650)
• Chapter 29 Technology and the Economy(p. 678)
• Chapter 30 The Economy and the Environment(p. 703)
• Contributors(p. 727)
• Index(p. 729)

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The 31 essays in this 835-page collection form the definitive compilation of recent research in economic sociology. The editors define economic sociology as differing from mainstream economics in its focus on the use of historical and comparative data to describe economic interaction. Economic sociologists see social activity as embedded in social networks, institutional structures, and culture, whereas classical economists tend to view economic actors as behaving rationally in relative social isolation. Economic sociologists trace their intellectual roots to Marx, Weber, Durkheim, Simmel, Schumpeter, and Polanyi; mainstream economists employ the lessons of Adam Smith, Ricardo, Mill, Marshall, Keynes, and Samuelson. Most of the authors in this volume are sociologists (often teaching in business departments), but also represented are several leading economists and political scientists such as Geoffrey Hodgson ("The Return of Institutional Economics"), Richard Nelson ("Evolutionary Theorizing about Economic Change"), Charles Sabel ("Learning by Monitoring: The Institutions of Economic Development"), and Alberto Martinelli ("Entrepreneurship and Management"). General surveys of the field are provided by the editors ("The Sociological Perspective on the Economy"), Paul DiMaggio ("Cultural and Economy"), and James Coleman ("A Rational Choice Perspective on Economic Sociology"). Other issues explored in this volume include religion and economic life (Robert Wuthnow); gender and the economy (Ruth Milkman); economy and the environment (Johannes Berger); welfare states (Gosta Esping-Anderson); coordination and conflict among corporations (Mark Granovetter, Mark Mizruchi, and Linda Stearns); the informal economy (Alejandro Portes); ethnic economics (Ivan Light); cross-national economic comparisons (Gary Greffi); and socialist economies (Ivan Szelenyi). A unique and invaluable survey of this rapidly developing field of scholarship. Upper-division undergraduate and graduate collections. T.H. Koenig; Northeastern University

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Neil J. Smelser, formerly University Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, is Director of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford.
Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology at the University of Stockholm and is the author of Schumpeter: A Biography (Princeton).