| Description |
xv, 574 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
The international library of critical writings in sociology ; v. 5 |
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International library of critical writings in sociology ; 5
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Elgar reference collection.
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| Contents |
1. Major Traditions of Economic Sociology / Richard Swedberg -- 2. The National State and Economic Policy (Freiburg Address, 1895) / Max Weber -- 3. Marginal Utility Theory and "The Fundamental Law of Psychophysics" / Max Weber -- 4. The Social Causes of the Decay of Ancient Civilization / Max Weber -- 5. The Crisis of the Tax State / Joseph A. Schumpeter -- 6. The Communist Manifesto in Sociology and Economics / Joseph A. Schumpeter -- 7. Joseph A. Schumpeter and the Tradition of Economic Sociology / Richard Swedberg -- 8. Our Obsolete Market Mentality / Karl Polanyi -- 9. Markets and Other Allocation Systems in History: The Challenge of Karl Polanyi / Douglass C. North -- 10. Karl Polanyi: His Life and Times / Kari Polanyi-Levitt and Marguerite Mendell -- 11. The Motivation of Economic Activities / Talcott Parsons -- 12. The Symbolic Environment of Modern Economies / Talcott Parsons -- 13. Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness / Mark Granovetter -- 14. Economic Institutions as Social Constructions: A Framework for Analysis / Mark Granovetter -- 15. "Dirty Hands" versus "Clean Models": Is Sociology in Danger of Being Seduced by Economics? / Paul Hirsch, Stuart Michaels and Ray Friedman -- 16. Beyond the Polemics on the Market: Establishing a Theoretical and Empirical Agenda / Viviana A. Zelizer -- 17. Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital / James S. Coleman -- 18. Melding Sociology and Economics: James Coleman's Foundations of Social Theory / Robert H. Frank -- 19. The Social Structure of a National Securities Market / Wayne E. Baker -- 20. Where Do Markets Come From? / Harrison C. White -- 21. Nobel Lecture: The Economic Way of Looking at Behavior / Gary S. Becker -- 22. Historical Alternatives to Mass Production: Politics, Markets and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Industrialization / Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin -- 23. Structural Change in Corporate Organization / Neil Fligstein and Kenneth Dauber -- 24. The Impact of Economics on Contemporary Sociology / James N. Baron and Michael T. Hannan |
| Analysis |
Economics Related to Sociology |
| Notes |
A collection of journal articles previously published between 1940-1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Economics -- Sociological aspects.
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Sociology.
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Economics.
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| Author |
Swedberg, Richard.
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| LC no. |
95045582 |
| ISBN |
1858983274 |
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