The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies.(Book Review)

From: Independent Review | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Voss, Thomas | Copyright information

The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies By Neil Fligstein Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 274. $70.00 cloth, $17.95 paperback.

In the past two decades, economic sociologists have contributed programmatic essays and numerous empirical studies to an analysis of the social and institutional context of markets. The scope and approach of economic sociology are in some respects similar or paral...

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