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List of illustrations | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgements | |
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Economic sociology unbound | |
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Intellectual history and foundations: legacies of classical sociology | |
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Rebirth: political economy and new economic sociology | |
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New economic sociology: fundamental concepts | |
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The basics of economic sociology | |
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Structural embeddedness | |
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Cognitive embeddedness | |
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Cultural embeddedness | |
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Institutional embeddedness | |
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Political embeddedness | |
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Traditions within economic sociology | |
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Limitations of new economic sociology | |
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Sociology and economics. Economic theory and its sociological critique | |
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The significant other: neoclassical economics and institutional economics | |
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Rational actors and rational choice | |
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Competition and assuming markets: efficiency, equilibrium, and evolution | |
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Overall evaluation: economics and its sociological critique | |
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Advances in economic theory | |
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The rise of markets and economic development | |
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Economists and development | |
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What is "capitalism"? | |
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Sociology and the rise of capitalism | |
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Marxist theory: classes and dialectics | |
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Max Weber: institutions and organizations | |
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Durkheim, modernity, and capitalism | |
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Values of modernity and development: modernization theory | |
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Marxism's revenge: dependency theory and world-systems theory | |
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Weber returns: institutional and state-centered theory | |
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States and development: growth versus stagnation | |
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Development: lessons and the future | |
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The state, public policy, and economic organization | |
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Efficiency, competition, and "regression to the norm" | |
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States and economies | |
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The state's ability to act in the economy | |
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Policy regimes: a cross-national comparison | |
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The American model | |
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The British model | |
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The French model | |
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The German model | |
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East Asian models | |
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Policies: change and continuity | |
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Global policy paradigms: Keynesianism, monetarism, and welfare | |
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Keynesianism | |
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Monetarism | |
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Evaluating Keynesianism and monetarism | |
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Comparison of welfare policies | |
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Unintended outcomes: states and informal economies | |
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Comparisons, evaluations, conclusions | |
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State centered, market centered, and mixed: a comparison | |
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The heart of the economy: Organizations and corporations | |
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The economists' view: organizations, markets, and efficiency | |
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New institutional economies (NIE) | |
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Sociological explanations: institutions, states, power, and culture | |
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Organizations as structured class power and capitalist logics | |
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Weberian and neo-Weberian views | |
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Organizations as "myth and ceremony": neoinstitutionalism | |
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Class plus institutions: William Roy's synthesis | |
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Cross-national variation: different organizational forms | |
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Alternative to the formal organization: "networked organization" | |
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Work and organizations | |
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Conclusion: organizations and the modern economy | |
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Economies, inequality, and mobility | |
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Class and economy | |
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Economies shape classes | |
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Classes shape economies: the case of American doctors | |
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The challenge of class and economic sociology | |
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Race, ethnicity, and economy | |
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Race and ethnicity in the American economy | |
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Ethnicity and the economy: ethnic economies and ethnic enclaves | |
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Race and ethnicity: class in sheep's clothing? | |
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Race and ethnicity in European economies | |
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Race, ethnicity and economy: the challenge and the future | |
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Gendered economies: glass ceilings and second shifts | |
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"Gendered economies" | |
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How a gendered economy reproduces inequality | |
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The "second shift" | |
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Change in gender and the economy | |
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The challenge of gender and economies | |
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The great experiment: markets in the shadows of socialism | |
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The Soviet economy | |
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Logics of the Soviet economy and the coming of crisis | |
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Revisiting the birth of capitalism: post-socialist market-building | |
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Russian economic reform after the collapse of communism | |
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The liberalized economy versus the state, mafiia, and shadow economy | |
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Privatization: the politics of property | |
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Monetization: market versus virtual value | |
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Impact of market-building reforms | |
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A post-socialist success story: China | |
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Lessons of post-socialism for economic sociology | |
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Brave new world? A critical examination of "globalization" | |
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The muddles | |
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Forces for and against globalization | |
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Promoting globalization | |
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Resisting globalization | |
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New phenomenon - or return to the norm? | |
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Globalization versus regionalization | |
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The disconnect: global economies and national institutions | |
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And the moral is...? | |
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Conclusion: Remaining challenges of economic sociology in the new millennium | |
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The lessons | |
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Structure and actors | |
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Economies and power culture | |
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The intellectual-theoretical agenda | |
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Breaking out of the shadow of economics | |
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A more unified theory | |
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The normative (social-political) agenda | |
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Social justice | |
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Structures and balance | |
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Deliberation at heart | |
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Concept guide and glossary | |
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Notes | |
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Bibliography | |
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Index | |