Table of Contents
Introduction to the Third Edition Foundations of Economic Sociology The Economy as Instituted Process Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes Max Weber’s Central Text in Economic Sociology The Forms of Capital Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action The Sociology of Markets The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th-Century America The Transformation of Morals in Markets: Death, Benefits, and the Exchange of Life Insurance Policies Economic and Sociological Approaches to Gender Inequality in Pay Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study Social Structure and Competition in Interfirm Networks: The Paradox of Embeddedness What Is Sociological About Banks and Banking? Constructing a Market, Performing a Theory: The Historical Sociology of a Financial Derivatives Exchange The Sociology of Firms and Industries Group Dynamics and Intergroup Relations Men Who Manage Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Production: A Comparative Study Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems Inside-Out: Regional Networks and Industrial Adaptation in Silicon Valley and Route 128 Comparative and Historical Economic Sociology Weber’s Last Theory of Capitalism: A Systematization Why the Economy Reflects the Polity: Early Rail Policy in Britain, France, and the United States E Pluribus Unum? Varieties and Commonalities of Capitalism Goodwill and the Spirit of Market Capitalism Developing Difference: Social Organization and the Rise of the Auto Industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina Transitions from State Socialism: A Property Rights Perspective