- An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
Of the Division of Labor
Of the Principle which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labour
Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities
Adam Smith
- Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Selections from The Chapter on Capital
Karl Marx
- Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology
Economic Action
Religious Ethics and Economic Rationality
The Market – Its Impersonality and Ethic
Class, Status, Party
Max Weber
- The Great Transformation
Societies and Economic Systems
Evolution of the Market Pattern
The Self-Regulation Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money
Karl Polanyi
PART II: ECONOMIC ACTION
Introduction
- Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness
Mark Granovetter (Stanford University)
- Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street
Homo Economicus Unbound: Bond Traders on Wall Street
Mitchel Y. Abolafia (University at Albany, SUNY)
- Auctions: The Social Construction of Value
The Search for a Fair Price
Charles Smith (Graduate Center of the City University of New York)
- The Structural Sources of Adventurism: The Case of the California Gold Rush
Gary G. Hamilton (University of Washington, Seattle)
- The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions
Paula England (University of Pennsylvania)
PART III: CAPITALIST STATES AND GLOBALIZING MARKETS
Introduction
- Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism
Randall Collins (University of Pennsylvania)
- Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions
Neil Fligstein (University of California)
- Rethinking Capitalism
Fred Block (University of California, Davis)
- Developing Difference: Social Organization and the Rise of the Auto Industries
of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina
Nicole Woolsey Biggart (University of California, Davis) and Mauro F. Guillen
(University of Pennsylvania)
- Learning from Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in the Biotechnology and
Pharmaceutical Industries
Walter W. Powell (Stanford University)
PART IV: ECONOMIC CULTURE AND THE CULTURE OF THE ECONOMY
Introduction
- The Forms of Capital
Pierre Bourdieu (College de France)
- Money, Meaning, and Morality
Bruce G. Carruthers (Northwestern University) and Wendy Nelson Espeland
(Northwestern University)
- The Social Meaning of Money
The Domestic Production of Monies
Viviana A. Zelizer (Princeton University)
- Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization
Money as Moral Currency
Sherryl Kleinman (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Greening the Economy from the Bottom Up?: Lessons in Consumption from the Energy
Case