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Economic Sociology introduces the student to the main conceptions of economic sociology; illustrates the application of the concepts and theories of economic sociology; and critiques the growing literature that uses economic sociology in the explanation of macroscopic social phenomena, mostly deriving from the Marxist tradition. The book features chapters that discusses the ecological analysis of societies; how economic objectives get translated into requirements on social relations; the basic structure of claims on the flow of benefits from economic enterprises; the reproduction of relations.

Economic Sociology introduces the student to the main conceptions of economic sociology; illustrates the application of the concepts and theories of economic sociology; and critiques the growing literature that uses economic sociology in the explanation of macroscopic social phenomena, mostly deriving from the Marxist tradition. The book features chapters that discusses the ecological analysis of societies; how economic objectives get translated into requirements on social relations; the basic structure of claims on the flow of benefits from economic enterprises; the reproduction of relations

These articles, over thirty in total, reflect the best and latest thought in the exciting field of economic sociology. Beginning with the foundation of Smith, Marx, Engels and Polanyi, the volume gathers some of the best writings by economic sociologists that consider national and world economies as both products and influences of society. Contains over twenty articles by classical and contemporary economic social theorists. Covers important topics on economic action, states, and markets. Includes insightful editorial introductions and further reading suggestions

"Economic Sociology provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of the promises of economic sociology. It shows how economies are more than supply-and-demand curves, individual profit motives, and efficient performance: they are forms of power and structure, grounded in institutions and culture. What is calculated, how, and why? Are profit and efficiency always so central to economic structures and outcomes? What shapes change and reproduction in economic practices and policies? How have classes and states, using power and institutions, created and continue to shape the economic world we live in? This second edition presents a critical and sophisticated yet approachable analysis of economic behavior and phenomena. After describing key concepts and logics of economic sociology and of economics (its eternal cousin and competitor), Hass turns the sociologist's analytic eye to the heart of economic practices comparing how they work in the United States, Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and post-socialist Russia and China. The volume addresses crucially important economic issues that touch our well-being and justice: the rise and structuring of capitalism; relations between states and economies; economic policies; economies and inequality; and organizations and corporations. Causes and consequences of globalization and the Great Recession are laid out for the reader. With economics and economic sociology placed side-by-side in this journey of how economies operate in the past and present, the reader gets different perspectives on economic reality. Power and culture, institutions and fields, classes and corporations interact on this historical and global stage. Written in a clear and direct style, this textbook will appeal to students and scholars in economic sociology, sociology of work, economics, social policy, political economy and comparative sociology"--

"Economic Sociology provides the clearest and most comprehensive account of the promises of economic sociology. It shows how economies are more than supply-and-demand curves, individual profit motives, and efficient performance: they are forms of power and structure, grounded in institutions and culture. What is calculated, how, and why? Are profit and efficiency always so central to economic structures and outcomes? What shapes change and reproduction in economic practices and policies? How have classes and states, using power and institutions, created and continue to shape the economic world we live in? This second edition presents a critical and sophisticated yet approachable analysis of economic behavior and phenomena. After describing key concepts and logics of economic sociology and of economics (its eternal cousin and competitor), Hass turns the sociologist's analytic eye to the heart of economic practices comparing how they work in the United States, Europe, East Asia, Latin America, and post-socialist Russia and China. The volume addresses crucially important economic issues that touch our well-being and justice: the rise and structuring of capitalism; relations between states and economies; economic policies; economies and inequality; and organizations and corporations. Causes and consequences of globalization and the Great Recession are laid out for the reader. With economics and economic sociology placed side-by-side in this journey of how economies operate in the past and present, the reader gets different perspectives on economic reality. Power and culture, institutions and fields, classes and corporations interact on this historical and global stage. Written in a clear and direct style, this textbook will appeal to students and scholars in economic sociology, sociology of work, economics, social policy, political economy and comparative sociology"--

In the past several years, economic sociology has grown into a new speciality within sociology. Numerous edited volumes, survey articles and handbooks herald its arrival and mark out its place in the sociological firmament (see, e.g. Granovetter and Swedberg, 1992; Swedberg, 1991; Smelser and Swedberg, 1994). Although classic social theorists like Karl Marx, Max Weber, Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel frequently pondered the structure and conditions of industrial society and the problems its emergence generated, it was not until neoclassical economists recently began to study nonmarket social phenomena that sociologists reacted by taking up the market as an object of study.

Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Preface -- Part I. Economic Relationships and the Social Sciences -- Chapter 1. The Nature of Economic Relationships / Mark Granovetter -- Chapter 2. On the Relationship Between Economic Theory and Economic Sociology in the Work of Jospeh Schumpeter / Richard Swedberg -- Part II. Trust, Cooperation, and Competition -- Chapter 3. The Social Structure of Competition / Ronald S. Burt -- Chapter 4. Studied Trust: Building New Forms of Cooperation in a Volatile Economy / Charles F. Sabel

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- NOTE ON THE TEXTS OF THE READINGS -- Introduction -- PART I: MODERN CAPITALISM -- O N E Modern Capitalism: Key Characteristics and Key Institutions -- TWO The Spirit of Capitalism -- THREE The Market -- FOUR The Beginnings of the Firm -- FIVE Class, Status, and Party -- PART II: CAPITALISM, LAW, AND POLITICS -- SIX The Three Types of Legitimate Domination -- SEVEN The Bureaucratization of Politics and the Economy -- EIGHT The Rational State and Its Legal System -- NINE The National State and Economic Policy (Freiburg Address) -- TEN The Social Causes of the Decay of Ancient Civilization -- PART III: CAPITALISM, CULTURE, AND RELIGION -- ELEVEN The Evolution of the Capitalist Spirit -- TWELVE The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism -- THIRTEEN Kinship and Capitalism in China -- FOURTEEN The Caste System in India -- FIFTEEN Charity in Ancient Palestine -- PART TV: THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY -- SIXTEEN Sociological Categories of Economic Action -- SEVENTEEN The Area of Economics, Economic Theory, and the Ideal Type -- EIGHTEEN Marginal Utility Analysis and "The Fundamental Law of Psychophysics" -- GLOSSARY Key Concepts in Weber's Economic Sociology -- A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL GUIDE TO WEBER'S ECONOMIC SOCIOLOGY -- INDEX