Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Foreword: Institutions, Markets, and Games ix
4. Acknowledgments xxxiii
5. Introduction xxxv
6. PART I: The New Study of Capitalism
7. The Economic Sociology of Capitalism: An Introduction and Agenda 3
8. Capitalism and Economic Growth 41
9. Organizational Dynamics of Institutional Change: Politicized Capitalism in China 53
10. Still Disenchanted? The Modernity of Postindustrial Capitalism 75
11. The Challenges of the "Institutional Turn": New Interdisciplinary Opportunities in Development Theory 90
12. PART 2: Institutions of American Capitalism
13. States, Markets, and Economic Growth 119
14. Venture Capital and Modern Capitalism 144
15. The Economic Sociology of Organizational Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Stanford Project on Emerging Companies 168
16. Making Sense of Recession: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Economic Action 204
17. Information Inequality and Network Externalities: A Comparative Study of the Diffusion of Television and the Internet 227
18. Affective Attachment in Electronic Markets: A Sociological Study of eBay 268
19. Circuits within Capitalism 289
20. PART 3. Global Transformation and Institutional Change
21. Brain Circulation and Capitalist Dynamics: Chinese Chipmaking and the Silicon Valley-Hsinchu-Shanghai Triangle 325
22. The Globalization of Stock Markets and Convergence in Corporate Governance 352
23. Fiscal Sociology in an Age of Globalization: Comparing Tax Regimes in Advanced Capitalist Countries 391
24. Trouble in Paradise: Institutions in the Japanese Economy and the Youth Labor Market 419
25. List of Contributors 445
26. Index 447