Beyond the Marketplace: Rethinking Economy and SocietyRoger Owen Friedland, A. F. Robertson Beyond the Marketplace is an interdisciplinary view of the relationship between markets and society. Do individuals behave in markets as neoclassical theory assumes they do? Can other social institutions and processes--e.g., family formation and voting behavior--be analyzed with the same analytic tools we use to study markets? How is economic behavior shaped by institutions beyond the marketplace? Do markets themselves have a social and cultural structure which is not adequately explained by the formal tools of neoclassical analysis? In Beyond the Marketplace, economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians, and anthropologists respond to these, and related, questions. |
Contents
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Rethinking Rational Choice | 53 |
The Old and the New Economic Sociology A History and an Agenda | 89 |
Cultural Aspects of Economic Action and Organization | 113 |
The Idea of Economy Six Modern Dissenters | 137 |
Markets Marriages and Other Mates The Problem of Power | 163 |
Class Conflict as a Dynamic Game | 189 |
A Complex Relationship Family Strategies and the Processes of Economic and Social Change | 215 |
Explaining the Politics of the Welfare State or Marching Back Toward Pluralism? | 245 |
States Labor Markets and Life Cycles | 271 |
The Transformation of Organizational Forms How Useful Is Organization Theory in Accounting for Social Change? | 301 |
Once More into the Breach between Economic and Cultural Analysis | 331 |
About the Authors | 353 |
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