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
Author(s): Roger Friedland, A. F. Robertson
Series: Sociology and Economics: Controversy and Intergration
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 372
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PART I. INTRODUCTION
1. Beyond the Marketplace
PART II. INDIVIDUALS AND MARKETS
2. Rethinking Rational Choice
3. The Old and the New Economic Sociology: A History and an Agenda
4. Cultural Aspects of Economic Action and Organization
5. The Idea of Economy: Six Modern Dissenters
PART III. SOCIETY AS MARKET
6. Markets, Marriages, and Other Mates: The Problem of Power
7. Class Conflict as a Dynamic Game
PART IV. MARKETS IN SOCIETY
8. A Complex Relationship: Family Strategies and the Processes of Economic and Social Change
9. Explaining the Politics of the Welfare State or Marching Back toward Pluralism?
10. States, Labor Markets, and Life Cycles
PART V. MARKETS AS SOCIETY
11. The Transformation of Organizational Forms: How Useful Is Organization Theory in Accounting for Social Change?
12. Once More into the Breach between Economic and Cultural Analysis
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