Economic Sociology (eBook)

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.

Preface.

Introduction: What is Economic Sociology?.

Part I: The Classics and the Sociology of
Capitalism:.

1. From Classical Economics to Economic Sociology.

2. The Origins and Developments of Capitalism: Simmel and
Sombart.

3. Capitalism and the Western Civilization: Max Weber.

4. The Social Consequences of Capitalism: Durkheim and
Veblen.

5. The Great Depression and the Decline of Liberal Capitalism:
Polanyi and Schumpeter.

Part II: Themes and Routes of Contemporary Economic
Sociology:.

6. The Legacy of the Classics and the New Boundaries between
Economics and Sociology.

7. Modernization and Development of Backward Areas.

8. The Keynesian Welfare State and Comparative Political
Economy.

9. The Crisis of Fordism and New Economic Sociology.

10. Globalization and the Diversity of Capitalisms.

Notes.

References.

"Carlo Trigilia's book marks a major milestone in the development
of economic sociology. For the first time, we have a theoretically
sophisticated and lucid account of the field's evolution from 1890
to the present. Trigilia is masterful in demonstrating the
theoretical and methodological continuities from Weber, Sombart,
Durkheim, Polanyi, and others to the new economic sociology of the
past two decades. This is a must read not only for economic
sociologists but for everyone who wants to understand the history
of social theory."

--Fred Block, University of California at Davis

"With Trigilia's book, sociology has finally returned to its
original territory, after it seemed to have lost it forever to
economics. With impressive erudition, the author moves from the
classics to the modern debate on varieties of capitalism."

--Wolfgang Streeck, Max Planck Institute for the Study of
Societies