International Encyclopedia of Economic Sociology

accounting; Advertisement; adaptation; Agency theory; AGIL model; alienation; altruism; American Institutionalism; anomie; Art and Economy; aspirations; asymmetrical information; atomism; auctions; auditing; Austrian economics; authority; autopoiesis; bankruptcy; banks; bargaining theory; barter; Behavioral Economics; Beliefs; bounded rationality; Bourdieu, Pierre; Bureaucracy; Business Associations; Calculation; Capital; capitalism; Capitalist class, transnational; care; Carnegie School; catallactic exchange; Chandler, Alfred; charisma; Children and economic life; choice; class; Classical economic sociology; classification; cliques; clusters; cognition; cognitive embeddedness; Coleman, James; collective action; collective goods; collective representation; Colonialism; Communism; Community and economy; comparative method; competition; conflict; conspicuous consumption; consultants; consumption; consumption markets; contested exchange; contract control; Convention school; cooperation; Coordination (modes of); corporate governance; corporatism; corruption; creativity; credit/debt/loans; cultural embeddedness; culture and economy; Customs; decision theory; deindustrialization; deliberation; democracy and economy; Demography; Demography of Organizations; differentiation; discrimination; distribution of wealth and income; domination; double contingency; duality of structure; Durkheim, Emile; ecology and economy; economic action; economic anthropology; economic culture; economic development; economic growth; economic history; economic imperialism; economic sociology; economic transformation; Economics; economizing; Economy; Education and the economy; Efficiency; Efficiency wages; egalitarianism; Electronic Commerce; embeddedness; Emotions and the economy; enterprise groups; entrepreneurship; equality; equilibrium; ethnic economy; Ethnography; European Market; evolution; evolutionary economics; exchange; Exchange theory; exploitation; fairness; Family and economy; Famines; Fashion, sociology of; field; financial markets; firms; fiscal sociology; flexibilization; formal and substantive rationality of economic action; formal and substantivist economy; forms of economic organization/governance; foundations; framing; fraud; free rider; functional imperatives/prerequisites (AGIL); game theory; gender and economy; generalized morality; German historical school; gift exchange; globalization; goods/commodities; governance; growth; habits; habitus; hedonism; hierarchy; Hirschman, Albert O.; historical materialism; Historical School; holism; homo economicus; homo sociologicus; household economy; housework; human behaviour, economic approach to; hybrids; ideal type; ideology; immigration; imperialism; impossibility theorem; incentives; inclusion and exclusion; industrial districts; Industrial Relations; industrial sociology; inequality in the economy; Inflation; informal economy; Information; information economics; Inheritance; Innovations; Institutionalism, old and new; institutional economics, old and new; institutional structuration; institutions; insurance; Interest; Interfirm relations; interlocking directorates; intermediary institutions; inventions; invisible hand; Jevons, William; just price, theories of; justice; kinship; knowledge; Kula exchange; labor markets; laissez-faire; law and economy; legitimacy; leisure; life styles; Local currencies; lock-in; Loose Coupling; Lowe, Adolph; Luhmann, Niklas; macro-to-micro link in economic sociology; malfeasance; management; managerial revolution; marginal utility; market systems/structures; markets; Marx, Karl; Mauss, Marcel; maximization; mechanism; mental models; mergers and takeovers; Methodenstreit; methodological individualism; micro to macro link in economic sociology; Micro-credit; Military and the Economy; mimetic processes; Modernization; Money; monopoly; moral economy; motivation; Muddling Through; needs; neoclassical economics; Neo-corporatism; network analysis; networks; norms and values; oikos; optimum; organization theory; organizational field; organizations; ownership; Pareto, Vilfredo; Parsons, Talcott; path-dependence; performance; phenomenology and ethnomethodology; philanthropy; Polanyi, Karl; political economics; political economy; political embeddedness; population ecology; post-industrialism; post-Keynesianism; potlatch; Poverty; Power in the economy; pragmatism; praxeology; Praxis; preferences; prices; primitive accumulation; principal and agent; production; production markets; professions, sociology of; property; property rights; Protestant ethic; public goods; public/social choice theory; rational choice theory; rationality; rationalization; reciprocity; redistribution; reflexivity; regulation of the market; regulation school; relational contracts; religion and economic life; Remittances; reputation; resources; Retail Trade; risk and uncertainty; Robinson Crusoe; rules; sacred; satisficing; scarcity; Schmoller, Gustav von; Schumpeter, Joseph; signalling; Simiand, François; Simmel, Georg; Shopping; Smith, Adam; social action; social capital; social construction in the economy; social embeddedness; social responsibility of firms; social structure; socialism; socioeconomics; sociological categories of economic action; sociology of accounting; sociology of consumption; sociology of development; sociology of economic knowledge; sociology of labour markets; sociology of markets; sociology of money; sociology of science and technology; sociology of work; solidarity; Sombart, Werner; speculation; spirit of capitalism; stakeholder; standardization; state and economy; state and market; stratification; structural autonomy; structural holes; structuration; structure; Subsistence economy; system; systems approach to economic sociology; tastes; taxation; technological change; ties; total social facts; trade; trade unions; traditional economies; trajectories; transaction cost economics; transaction costs; Transitional economies; trust in the economy; uncertainty; under- and over-socialized conceptions of the economic agent in economic sociology; unemployment; use; usury; utilitarianism (hedonism); utility; value; Varieties of Capitalism; Veblen, Thorstein; Verstehen; wages; wealth; Weber, Max; welfare; welfare economics; welfare state; Winner-take-all economy; Work; work ethic; Work teams

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Jens Beckert, Milan Zafirovski

'Although intended for reference for students and business practitioners, the entries are of sufficient length to allow this volume to serve as a supplemental text for economic sociology classes. Entries are signed, cross-referenced and include brief bibliographies.' - Reference & Research Book News