Economic Sociology State, Market, and Society in Modern Capitalism

by Trigilia, Carlo

• ISBN13: 9780631225362
• ISBN10: 0631225366
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-06-03
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This book systematically reconstructs the origins and new advances in economic sociology. By presenting both classical and contemporary theory and research, this book identifies and describes the continuity between past and present, and the move from economics to economic sociology. Economic Sociology begins with the classic writings by Simmel, Sombart, Weber, Durkheim, Veblen, Polanyi, and Schempeter, and highlights how these writings contributed to developing a theory of economic action as socially oriented action. The book then examines the social consequences of capitalism up to the present, including discussions about modernization and the welfare state. The volume is an historical introduction that illustrates how economic sociology has contributed to the understanding of the origins and characteristics of capitalism in the West, liberal capitalism, and the more highly regulated and organized capitalism which has come into being since the thirties. Economic Sociology presents the methodology and research themes accessibly, and each part is organized and presented so that it may be read as a single unit, according to students' specific needs. This is an excellent introduction to the field.

Author Biography

Carlo Trigilia is Professor of Economic Sociology at the University of Florence. He is the author of Sviluppo senza autonomia. Effetti perversi delle politiche nel Mezzogiorno, which won the Amalfi European Prize in Sociology.

Table of Contents

Preface	vi
Acknowledgments	x
Introduction: What is Economic Sociology?	1	(14)
Part I: The Classics and the Sociology of Capitalism	15	(102)
From Classical Economics to Economic Sociology	17	(19)
The Origins and Developments of Capitalism: Simmel and Sombart	36	(18)
Capitalism and the Western Civilization: Max Weber	54	(22)
The Social Consequences of Capitalism: Durkheim and Veblen	76	(20)
The Great Depression and the Decline of Liberal Capitalism: Polanyi and Schumpeter	96	(21)
Part II: Themes and Routes of Contemporary Economic Sociology	117	(139)
The Legacy of the Classics and the New Boundaries between Economics and Sociology	119	(28)
Modernization and Development of Backward Areas	147	(19)
The Keynesian Welfare State and Comparative Political Economy	166	(31)
The Crisis of Fordism and New Economic Sociology	197	(40)
Globalization and the Diversity of Capitalisms	237	(19)
Notes	256	(8)
References	264	(15)
Index	279