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AbstractThis editorial argues for understanding socio-economics as an interdisciplinary space. While economic sociology and political economy are largely grounded in disciplines, the scope of socio-economics extends beyond any disciplinary subfields. But rather than a grand integration, a realistic aspiration behind this project is establishing a space of dialogue and engagement between them. Here scholarly innovation can take place in a more phenomenon-driven form and via eclectic borrowing and blending of discipline-based theories and methods. The next challenge facing socio-economics is to expand this interdisciplinary space from encompassing the Global North to engage with scholarship on and scholars from the Global South. This long-term challenge reflects very deep economic and social inequalities. The editorial offers several modest observations regarding the practices of writing and publication, while calling for a wider conversation about these issues. Specifically, the editorial highlights the potential of leveraging cross-context engagement with concepts to further new theoretical development.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- Contributors -- I. Introduction -- 1. Socio-Economics: A Budding Challenge -- 2. Socio-Economics: A Grounded Perspective -- II. Socio-Economics-A General Approach -- 3. ""The Battle of Methods"": Toward a Paradigm Shift? -- 4. The Economic Person in Sociological Context: Case Studies in the Mediation of Self-Interest -- 5. Contemporary Liberals, Communitarians, and Individual Choices -- 6. The Social Construction of Economic Institutions -- III. Utility, Goals, and Values

1. Introduction -- 2. Regionalism and the study of human genetic variation in a transnational context : Asianism, nationalism, and the racialization of ethnicity -- 3. Capitalizing on being "othered" : precision medicine and race in the context of a globalized pharmaceutical industry -- 4. Managing "otherness" : genomics and public health policy in Singapore -- 5. Cancer genomics in clinics -- 6. Socio-economic factors and ethical dilemmas in personalized medicine provision -- 7. Conclusion : personalized medicine and population-based genetic/genomic studies.

The dissertation at hand examines pay inequalities in contemporary capitalist societies, a phenomena that combines clear policy relevance and entrenched controversies between different schools of thought. It defends the thesis that pay inequalities are the result of socially constructed rules that cannot be ascribed exclusively to capitalist-rational interests. The empirical part of the dissertation focuses on inequalities between occupations and applies econometric methods to representative panel data from Germany and Belgium. Three empirical studies provide surprisingly thin evidence for conventional models of the determination of earnings. We notably show that the pay rules that differentiate occupational categories cannot be explained with (i) corresponding inequalities in relative marginal productivities or (ii) the asymmetric impact of technological change on differ- ent occupations. By contrast, the structure of occupational pay is significantly associated with the composition of occupations (e.g. changes in unionisation, gender ratios, or educational mix) and cross-country variations in the institutional configuration of labour markets. The dissertation therefore not only highlights the weak empirical footing of conventional wage theories but also socio-economic concepts and factual evidence that help to recalibrate the institutional analysis of earnings. ; info:eu-repo/semantics/published

The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a surging interest in personalized medicine with the concomitant promise to enable more precise diagnosis and treatment of disease and illness, based upon an individual's unique genetic makeup. In this book, my goal is to contribute to a growing body of literature on personalized medicine by tracing and analyzing how this field has blossomed in Asia. In so doing, I aim to illustrate how various social and economic forces shape the co-production of science and social order in global contexts. This book shows that there are inextricable transnational linkages between developing and developed countries and also provides a theoretically guided and empirically grounded understanding of the formation and usage of particular racial and ethnic human taxonomies in local, national and transnational settings.