Author: Fligstein, Neil
Title: The Architecture of Markets : An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First Century Capitalist Societies
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (2001). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiv,274 pp. Textual tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Bringing Sociology Back In; Markets as Institutions; The Politics of the Creation of Market Institutions; The Theory of Fields & the Problem of Market Formation; The Logic of Employment Systems; The Dynamics of U.S. Firms & the Issue of Ownership & Control in the 1970s; The Rise of the Shareholder Value Conception of the Firm & the Merger Movement in the 1980s; Corporate Control in Capitalist Societies; Globalization; Conclusion.

Keywords: American Economic History, United States, Sociology, Economics, Economy, Capitalism, , ,