Readings in economic sociology Book

	List of Contributors
	Acknowledgments
	Preface
Pt. I	Foundational Statements	1
1	An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations	6
	Of the Division of Labour	6
	Of the Principle which Gives Occasion to the Division of Labour	11
	Of the Natural and Market Price of Commodities	14
2	Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy	18
	Selections from the Chapter on Capital	18
3	Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology	24
	Economic Action	24
	Religious Ethics and Economic Rationality	25
	The Market: Its Impersonality and Ethic	29
	Class, Status, Party	33
4	The Great Transformation	38
	Societies and Economic Systems	38
	Evolution of the Market Pattern	48
	The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money	58
Pt. II	Economic Action	63
5	Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness	69
6	Making Markets: Opportunism and Restraint on Wall Street	94
	Homo Economicus Unbound: Bond Traders on Wall Street	94
7	Auctions: The Social Construction of Value	112
	The Search for a Fair Price	112
8	The Structural Sources of Adventurism: The Case of the California Gold Rush	133
9	The Separative Self: Androcentric Bias in Neoclassical Assumptions	154
Pt. III	Capitalist States and Globalizing Markets	169
10	Weber's Last Theory of Capitalism	175
11	Markets as Politics: A Political-Cultural Approach to Market Institutions	197
12	Rethinking Capitalism	219
13	Developing Difference: Social Organization and the Rise of the Auto Industries of South Korea, Taiwan, Spain, and Argentina	231
14	Learning from Collaboration: Knowledge and Networks in the Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Industries	262
Pt. IV	Economic Culture and the Culture of the Economy	275
15	The Forms of Capital	280
16	Money, Meaning, and Morality	292
17	The Social Meaning of Money	315
	The Domestic Production of Monies	315
18	Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization	331
	Money as Moral Currency	331
19	Greening the Economy from the Bottom up? Lessons in Consumption from the Energy Case	345
	Index	357