Preface The Sociological Perspective on the Economy 2Culture and Economy 3The Return of Institutional Economics 4Transaction Cost Economics and Organization Theory 5Evolutionary Theorizing about Economic Change 6Learning by Monitoring: The Institutions of Economic Development 7A Rational Choice Perspective on Economic Sociology 8Civilizations and the Organization of Economics 9The International Economy and Economic Development 10The Socialist Economic System 11Markets as Social Structures 12Capitalist Work and Labor Markets 13Money, Banking, and Financial Markets 14Trade, Transportation, and Spatial Distribution 15Networks and Economic Life 16Consumption, Preferences, and Changing Lifestyles 17The Informal Economy and Its Paradoxes 18Business Groups 19Entrepreneurship and Management 20Firms, Wages, and Incentives 21Firms and Their Environments 22Measuring Performance in Economic Organizations 23Education and the Economy 24Gender and the Economy 25Religion and Economic Life 26The Ethnic Economy 27Labor and Leisure 28The Roles of the State in the Economy 29Welfare States and the Economy 30The Sociology of Distribution and Redistribution 31The Economy and the Environment About the Authors Name Index Subject Index

"This excellent volume is a compilation of some of the best writing in this field over the past decade, including basic works like Oliver Williamson's transaction cost theory of the firm, and [is] a helpful comparison of economic sociology to mainstream economics"--Francis Fukuyama, Foreign Affairs "A unique and invaluable survey of this rapidly developing field of scholarship."--Choice