Table of Contents

Part 1 Theory building in economic sociology: clean models vs dirty bands - differences between economics and sociology, Paul Hirsch, Stuart Michaels and Ray Friedman; the paradigm of economic sociology - premises and promises, Richard Swedberg, Ulf Himmelstrand and Goran Brulin; Marxism, functionalism and game theory, Jon Elster. Part 2 Altering assumptions about organizations: economic theories of organization, Charles Perrow; the growth of public and private bureaucracies, Marshall W. Meyer. Part 3 Finance capital: capital market effects on external control of corporations, Linda Brewster Swearns; bank hegemoney in the United States, Beth Mintz and Michael Schwartz; accounting rationality and financial legitimation, Paul Montagna. Part 4 The state and capital: business and politics in the United States and the United Kingdom, Michael Useem; political choice and the multiple "logics" of capital, Fred Block; private and social wage expansion in the advanced market economies, Roger Freidland and Jimy Sanders. Part 5 Management, entrepeneurs, and capital: visions of American managements in post-war France, Luc Boltanski; markets, managers and technical autonomy, Peter Whalley; a critique and reformulation of immigrant enterprise, Roger Waldinger.