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Economy/Society Markets, Meanings, and Social Structure

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ISBN-10: 0761986413

ISBN-13: 9780761986416

Edition: 1999

Authors: Bruce G. Carruthers, Sarah Louise Babb

List price: $68.00
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Economy//Society is an accessible introduction to the ways in which economic exchanges are embedded in social relationships. Bruce Carruthers and Sarah Babb tackle big issues and real problems with analytical power and lively ideas. They offer rich and novel insights into such topics as advertising, consumer behaviour, the diffusion of innovations, conflicts in the work place, social inequality and the economic development of nations.
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Book details

List price: $68.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/16/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Sarah Babb is a Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She specializes in the areas of Economic Sociology, Latin America, Political Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology, Organizations and Globalization. Her most recent book is Managing Mexico: Economists from Nationalism to Neoliberalism.Bruce Carruthers Ph.D. University of Chicago 1991. Areas of interest include historical and comparative sociology, economic sociology, sociology of law and sociology of organizations. Carruthers has written three books, City of Capital Politics and Markets in the English Financial Revolution (Princeton University, 1996), Rescuing Business: The Making of Corporate Bankruptcy Law in England and…    

The Embeddedness of Markets
Marketing and the Meaning of Things
Networks in the Economy
Organizations and the Economy
Economic Inequality
Economic Development
Globalization
Conclusion