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The Changing Relationship Between Economic Sociology and Institutional Economics: From Talcott Parsons to Mark Granovetter [1].

From: The American Journal of Economics and Sociology  |  Date: 10/1/1999  |  Author: VELTHUIS, OLAV

OLAV VELTHUIS [*]

ABSTRACT. In his early work, Talcott Parsons severely criticized Old Institutional Economists like Thorstein Veblen and Clarence Ayres. Parsons' main objection was that institutional economics had a misconceived view on the scope of economics: institutions, being the embodiment of values, were the proper subject of sociology rather than economics. By arguing for a clear-cut division of labor between economics and sociology, Parsons legitimated the divide between ...

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