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Zusatztext "By proposing a shift of focus for economic sociology in an important and so far underinvestigated realm! this book represents a significant advancement in the further development of the field. What has been underemphasized in the new economic sociology! the editors rightly claim! is a more macro-oriented investigation of the operation of capitalism as an economic and social system. The high quality contributions in The Economic Sociology of Capitalism address concerns that have stood at the center of classical works in economic sociology by Weber! Durkheim! Polányi! and Schumpeter which are still important and will find more attention through this volume." -Jens Beckert! Georg-August-Universität Göttingen! author of Beyond the Market Informationen zum Autor Edited by Victor Nee & Richard Swedberg Klappentext 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 Capitalism seeks 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 in economic sociology, is organized around three broad themes. The first section addresses core issues and problems in the new study of capitalism; the second considers a variety of topics concerning America, the leading capitalist economy of the world; and the third focuses attention on the question of convergence stemming from the global transformation of capitalism and the challenge of explaining institutional change. The contributions, which follow a foreword by economic historian Avner Greif and the editor's introduction, are by Mitchel Abolafia, James Baron and Michael Hannan, Mary C. Brinton, John Campbell, Gerald Davis and Christopher Marquis, Paul DiMaggio and Joseph Cohen, Peter Evans, Neil Fligstein, John Freeman, Francis Fukuyama, Ko Kuwabara, Victor Nee, Douglass C. North, AnnaLee Saxenian, Richard Swedberg, and Viviana Zelizer. Zusammenfassung 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. This work addresses core issues and problems in the new study of capitalism; and considers a variety of topics concerning America. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword: Institutions! Markets! and Games by Avner Greif ix Acknowledgments xxxiii Introduction by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg xxxv PART I: The New Study of Capitalism 1 The Economic Sociology of Capitalism: An Introduction and Agenda by Richard Swedberg 3 Capitalism and Economic Growth by Douglass C. North 41 Organizational Dynamics of Institutional Change: Politicized Capitalism in China by Victor Nee 53 Still Disenchanted? The Modernity of Postindustrial Capitalism by Francis Fukuyama 75 The Challenges of the "Institutional Turn": New Interdisciplinary Opportunities in Development Theory by Peter Evans 90 PART 2: Institutions of American Capitalism 117 States! Markets! and Economic Growth by Neil Fligstein 119 Venture Capital and Modern Capitalism by John Freeman 144 The Economic Sociology of Organizational by Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Stanford by Project on Emerging Companies by James N. Baron and Michael T. Hannan 168 Making Sense of Recession: Toward an Interpretive by Theory of Economic Action by Mitchel Y. Abolafia 204 Information Inequality and Network Externalities: A Comparative Study of the Di...
