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Economic sociology and institutional economics

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Book reviewed: SwedbergR. (ed.), New Developments in Economic Sociology, Cheltenham: Elgar, 2005, 2 vols, hbk, ISBN 1 84376 524 1, 527 and 657 pp., £270.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2007

DAVID A. REISMAN
DAVID A. REISMAN*
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Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and University of Surrey, UK. Email: aardavid@ntu.edu.sg
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Economic sociology was a core concern of early political economists like Smith, Marx, Pareto, and Marshall. The new economic sociology has sought to revive the neglected subdiscipline using the construct of interpersonal networks. Richard Swedberg has assembled 42 substantial papers in this collection. This article, reviewing his selection, proceeds in three stages. First, it provides a general framework for the debate. Second, it discusses the papers specifically linked to networks. Third, it analyses the contributions that go beyond the concept of social processes as personal relationships.

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Journal of Institutional Economics , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , April 2007 , pp. 91 - 112
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Copyright © The JOIE Foundation 2006

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