These articles, over thirty in total, reflect the best and latest thought in the exciting field of economic sociology. Beginning with the foundation of Smith, Marx, Engels and Polanyi, the volume gathers some of the best writings by economic sociologists that consider national and world economies as both products and influences of society. Contains over twenty articles by classical and contemporary economic social theorists. Covers important topics on economic action, states, and markets. Includes insightful editorial introductions and further reading suggestions.

These articles, over thirty in total, reflect the best and latestthought in the exciting field of economic sociology. Beginning withthe foundation of Smith, Marx, Engels and Polanyi, the volumegathers some of the best writings by economic sociologists thatconsider national and world economies as both products andinfluences of society.* * Contains over twenty articles by classical and contemporaryeconomic social theorists.* Covers important topics on economic action, states, andmarkets.* Includes insightful editorial introductions and further readingsuggestions.

List of Contributors.Acknowledgments.Preface..Part I: Foundational Statements.1. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth ofNations (Adam Smith).2. Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political EconomySelections from the Chapter on capital (Karl Max).3. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology(Max Weber).4. The Great Transformation (Karl Polanyi).Part II: Economic Action.5. Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem ofEmbeddedness (Mark Granovetter).6. Making Markets: Opportunism and restraint on Wall Street(Mitchel Y. Abolafia).7. Auctions: The Social Construction of Value (CharlesSmith).8. the Structural Sources of Adventurism: The Case of theCalifornia Gold Rush (Gary G. Hamilton).9. The Separative Self: Andocentric Bias in NeoclassicalAssumptions (Paula England).Part III: Capitalist States and Globalizing Markets.10. Weber's Last Theory of capitalism (Randall Collins).11. Markets as Politics: A Political-Culture Approach to MarketInstitutions (Neil Fligstein).12. Rethinking Capitalism (Fred Block).13. Developing Difference: Social Organization and the rise ofthe Auto Industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina(Nicole Woolsey Biggart and Mauro F. Guillen).14. Learning from Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in theBiotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries (Walter W.Powell).Part IV: Economic Culture and the Culture of theEconomy.15. The Forms of Capital (Pierre Bourdieu).16. Money, Meaning, and Morality (Bruce G. Carruthers and WendyNelson Espeland).17. The Social Meaning of Money (Viviana A. Zelizer).18. Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an AlternativeOrganization (Sherryl Kleinman).19. Greening the Economy from the Bottom Up? Lessons inConsumption from the Energy Case (Loren Lutzenhiser).Index.