Incorporating classic and contemporary readings in economic sociology, as well as offerings from related disciplines, this book aims to provide students with a broad understanding of the dimensions of economic life. The introduction traces the history of thought in the field.

Introduction; (Richard Swedberg and Mark Granovetter.); Sociological Approaches To The Economy; The Economy as Instituted Process; (Karl Polanyi.); Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness; (M. Granovetter.); Historical And Comparative Perspectives On The Economy; Webers Last Theory of Capitalism: A Systematization; (Randall Collins.); Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective; (Alexander Gerschenkron.); The Emergence of Managerial Capitalism; (Alfred D. Chandler, Jr.); Goodwill and the Spirit of Market Capitalism Ronald Dore; Market, Culture, and Authority: A Comparative Analysis of Management and Organization in the Far East; (Gary G. Hamilton and Nicole Woolsey Biggart.); The Sociology Of Economic Institutions; The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing; (Clifford Geertz.); The Sociological and Economic Approaches to Labor Market Analysis: A Social Structural View; (M. Granovetter.); Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study; (Stewart Macaulay.); Human Values and the Market: The Case of Life Insurance and Death in 19th-Century America; (Viviana A. Zelizer. ); The Sociology Of The Firm And Industrial Organization; Group Dynamics and Intergroup Relations; (George Strauss.); Men Who Manage; (Melville Dalton.); Bureaucratic and Craft Administration of Production: A Comparative Study; (Arthur L. Stinchcombe. ); Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural Industry Systems; (Paul M. Hirsch.).