The economic crisis of 2008–2010 stimulated an already growing sociological interest in
finance. Before the crisis, disintermediation and securitization changed how the US financial …

Thirty years ago, intellectual debates concerning the relationship between wealthy and poor
nations could be summed up under the rubric of modernization versus dependency …

In the context of the recent financial crisis, the extent to which the US economy has become
dependent on financial activities has been made abundantly clear. In Capitalizing on Crisis …

The Handbook of Economic Sociology, Second Edition is the most comprehensive and up-to-
date treatment of economic sociology available. The first edition, copublished in 1994 by …

Priests of Prosperity explores the unsung revolutionary campaign to transform
postcommunist central banks from command-economy cash cows into Western-style …

The author examines the US real estate sector to show how the state shapes global real
estate flows and networks of activity through the creation and control of liquid resources. The …

The Asian Financial Crisis dramatically illustrated the vulnerability of financial markets in
emerging, transitional, and advanced economies. In response, international organizations …

For the past 15 years an enormous enterprise of global norm making and related national
lawmaking has been underway in many areas of global commerce. This article shows that …

A bold history of the rise of central banks, showing how institutions designed to steady the
ship of global finance have instead become as destabilizing as they are dominant. While …

Ironically, law is “all over,” yet marginal in economic sociology. Despite law's centrality to
classical sociological understandings of the economy (see Smelser and Swedberg, this …