Economic Sociology of Capitalism

Name: Economic Sociology of Capitalism
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ISBN: 9780691119588

ISBN-10: 0691119589

ISBN-13: 9780691119588

Edition: 2005

Authors: Victor Nee, Richard Swedberg

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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 Capitalismseeks 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…

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/25/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.22" wide x 9.21" long x 1.07" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Foreword: Institutions, Markets, and Games



Acknowledgments


Introduction




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




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




Global Transformation and Institutional Change


Brain Circulation and Capitalist Dynamics: Chinese Chipmaking and the SiliconValley-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