The Handbook of Economic Sociology : : Second Edition / / ed. by Neil J. Smelser, Richard Swedberg.

The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-date treatment of economic sociology available. The first edition, copublished in 1994 by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation as a synthesis of the burgeoning field of economic sociology, so...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010]
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Year of Publication:2010
Edition:Second
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (752 p.) :; 21 line illus. 34 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. General Concerns
  • 1. Introducing Economic Sociology
  • 2. Comparative and Historical Approaches to Economic Sociology
  • 3. The New Institutionalisms in Economics and Sociology
  • 4. Principles of an Economic Anthropology
  • 5. Behavioral Economics
  • 6. Emotions and the Economy
  • Part II. The Economic Core: Economic Systems, Institutions, and Behavior
  • Section A: The Economy in a Macrosociological Perpective
  • 7. The Economic Sociology of the Ancient Mediterranean World
  • 8. The Global Economy: Organization, Governance, and Development
  • 9. The Political and Economic Sociology of International Economic Arrangements
  • 10. Post-Communist Economic System
  • Section B: The Sociology of Economic Institutions and Economic Behavior
  • 11. Markets in Society
  • 12. The Sociology of Labor Markets and Trade Unions
  • 13. Banking and Financial Markets
  • 14. Sociology of Work and Occupations
  • 15. Culture and Consumption
  • 16. The Sociology of Money and Credit
  • 17. Networks and Economic Life
  • 18. The Informal Economy
  • Section C: The Sociology of Firms, Organizations, and Industries
  • 19. Business Groups and Social Organization
  • 20. Entrepreneurship
  • 21. Firms and Environments
  • Part III. Intersections of the Economy
  • 22. The State and the Economy
  • 23. A Sociological Approach to Law and the Economy
  • 24. Welfare States and the Economy
  • 25. Education and the Economy
  • 26. New Directions in the Study of Religion and Economic Life
  • 27. Gender and Economic Sociology
  • 28. The Ethnic Economy
  • 29. Technology and the Economy
  • 30. The Economy and the Environment
  • Contributors
  • Index