Readings in Economic Sociology

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations ; Of the division of labour ; Of the principle which gives occasion to the division of labour ; Of the natural and market price of commodities / Adam Smith -- Grundrisse: foundations of the critique of political economy ; Selections from the chapter on capital ; Economy and society: an outline of interpretive sociology ; Economic action ; Religious ethics and economic rationality ; The market: its impersonality and ethic ; Class, status, party / Max Weber -- The great transformation ; Societies and economic systems ; Evolution of the market pattern ; The self-regulating market and the fictitious commodities: labor, land, and money / Karl Polanyi -- Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness / Mark Granovetter -- Making markets: opportunism and restraint on Wall Street / Mitchel Y. Abolafia -- Homo economicus unbound: bond traders on Wall Street / Mitchel Y. Abolafia -- Auctions: the social construction of value: The search for a fair price / Charles Smith -- The structural sources of adventurism: the case of the California Gold Rush / Gary G. Hamilton -- The separative self: androcentric bias in neoclassical assumptions / Paula England -- Weber's last theory of capitalism / Randall Collins -- Markets as politics: a political-cultural approach to market institutions / Neil Fligstein -- Rethinking capitalism / Fred Block -- Developing difference: social organization and the rise of the auto industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina / Nicole Woolsey biggart, Mauro F. Guillen -- Learning from collaboration: knowledge and networks in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries / Walter W. Powell -- The forms of capital / Pierre Bourdieu -- Money, meaning, and morality / Bruce G. Carruthers, Wendy Nelson Espeland -- The social meaning of money / Viviana A. Zelizer -- The domestic production of monies -- Opposing ambitions: gender and identity in an alternative organization / Sherryl Kleinman -- Money as moral currency / Sherryl Kleinman -- Greening the economy from the bottom up? Lessons in consumption from the energy case / Loren Lutzenhiser.

An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations ; Of the division of labour ; Of the principle which gives occasion to the division of labour ; Of the natural and market price of commodities / Adam Smith -- Grundrisse: foundations of the critique of political economy ; Selections from the chapter on capital ; Economy and society: an outline of interpretive sociology ; Economic action ; Religious ethics and economic rationality ; The market: its impersonality and ethic ; Class, status, party / Max Weber -- The great transformation ; Societies and economic systems ; Evolution of the market pattern ; The self-regulating market and the fictitious commodities: labor, land, and money / Karl Polanyi -- Economic action and social structure: the problem of embeddedness / Mark Granovetter -- Making markets: opportunism and restraint on Wall Street / Mitchel Y. Abolafia -- Homo economicus unbound: bond traders on Wall Street / Mitchel Y. Abolafia -- Auctions: the social construction of value: The search for a fair price / Charles Smith -- The structural sources of adventurism: the case of the California Gold Rush / Gary G. Hamilton -- The separative self: androcentric bias in neoclassical assumptions / Paula England -- Weber's last theory of capitalism / Randall Collins -- Markets as politics: a political-cultural approach to market institutions / Neil Fligstein -- Rethinking capitalism / Fred Block -- Developing difference: social organization and the rise of the auto industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina / Nicole Woolsey biggart, Mauro F. Guillen -- Learning from collaboration: knowledge and networks in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries / Walter W. Powell -- The forms of capital / Pierre Bourdieu -- Money, meaning, and morality / Bruce G. Carruthers, Wendy Nelson Espeland -- The social meaning of money / Viviana A. Zelizer -- The domestic production of monies -- Opposing ambitions: gender and identity in an alternative organization / Sherryl Kleinman -- Money as moral currency / Sherryl Kleinman -- Greening the economy from the bottom up? Lessons in consumption from the energy case / Loren Lutzenhiser