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Book SynopsisThis volume makes a significant contribution to the new economic sociology. It draws upon a Polanyian foundation but moves forward, developing neo-Polanyian agendas in relation to developments of contemporary capitalism.
Table of ContentsPreface - Kari Polanyi-Levitt
1. Working with and beyond Polanyian perspectives – Mark Harvey, Sally Randles and Ronnie Ramlogan
PART I: Working within the legacy of Polanyi
2. The forgotten institutions – Michele Cangiani
3. Institutions, politics and culture: a Polanyian perspective on economic change – John Harriss
4. The enforcement of contracts and property rights: constitutive versus epiphenomenal conceptions of law – Geoffrey Hodgson
5. Karl Polanyi and the instituted process of economic democratisation – Marguerite Mendell
6. Reinstituting the economic process: (re)embedding the economy in society and nature – Fikret Adaman, Pat Devin and Begum Ozkaynak
7. Moral philosophy and economic sociology: what MacIntyre learnt from Polanyi – Peter McMylor
PART II: New directions
8. Issues for a neo-Polanyian research agenda in economic sociology – Sally Randles
9. Instituting economic processes in society – Mark Harvey
10. Labour markets as instituted economic process: a comparison of France and the UK – Nathalie Moncel
11. Telephone transactions: instituting new processes of exchange and distribution – Miriam Glucksmann
12. Instituted economic processes in the telecommunications sector – Andrea Mina
13. Corporate merger as dialectical double movement and instituted process – Sally Randles and Ronnie Ramlogan
