The Economic Sociology of Capitalism / / Richard Swedberg, Victor Nee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Abolafia, Mitchel,; Baron, James,; Brinton, Mary,; Campbell, John,; Cohen, Joseph,; Davis, Gerald,; DiMaggio, Paul,; Evans, Peter,; Fligstein, Neil,; Freeman, John,; Fukuyama, Francis,; Hannan, Michael,; Kuwabara, Ko,; Marquis, Christopher,; Nee, Victor,; North, Douglass,; Saxenian, AnnaLee,; Swedberg, Richard,; Zelizer, Viviana,
• HerausgeberIn: Nee, Victor,; Swedberg, Richard,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2005
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (496 p.) :; 22 line illus.

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword: Institutions, Markets, and Games -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I: The New Study of Capitalism -- The Economic Sociology of Capitalism: An Introduction and Agenda -- Capitalism and Economic Growth -- Organizational Dynamics of Institutional Change: Politicized Capitalism in China -- Still Disenchanted? The Modernity of Postindustrial Capitalism -- The Challenges of the "Institutional Turn": New Interdisciplinary Opportunities in Development Theory -- PART 2: Institutions of American Capitalism -- States, Markets, and Economic Growth -- Venture Capital and Modern Capitalism -- The Economic Sociology of Organizational Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies -- Making Sense of Recession: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Economic Action -- Information Inequality and Network Externalities: A Comparative Study of the Diffusion of Television and the Internet -- Affective Attachment in Electronic Markets: A Sociological Study of eBay -- Circuits within Capitalism -- PART 3. Global Transformation and Institutional Change -- Brain Circulation and Capitalist Dynamics: Chinese Chipmaking and the Silicon Valley-Hsinchu-Shanghai Triangle -- The Globalization of Stock Markets and Convergence in Corporate Governance -- Fiscal Sociology in an Age of Globalization: Comparing Tax Regimes in Advanced Capitalist Countries -- Trouble in Paradise: Institutions in the Japanese Economy and the Youth Labor Market -- List of Contributors -- Index