...Milan Zafirovski Correspondence may be addressed to Milan Zafirovski, Department of Sociology,P. O. Box 311157, University of North Texas, Denton, TX 76203. Duke University Press 2001 Bakshi, G., and Z. Chen. 1996 . The Spirit of Capitalism and Stock-Market Prices. American...

... as due to influences and circumstances other than the intellectual weakness of the American environment or of the authors themselves. University of Victoria, Canada MALCOLMRUTHERFORD Marx, marginalism and modern sociology: from Adam Smith to Max Weber. By Simon Clarke...

... CCC 0018-2702/88/$1.50 Schumpeter as an economic radical: an economic sociology assessed Alavt W. Dyer For all his praise of the science of exchange value and general equilibrium theory, Joseph Schumpeter devotes his theoretical energies to developing the field of economic sociology...

...Daniel Geary This article offers a case study of how social scientific disciplines differentiate themselves from one another, focusing on the relationship of economics to sociology. It presents four categories to describe common ways that economists and sociologists understood the relationship...

.... This was not his original job description, but we need not mind that, because strict academic compartmentalization is a later inven- tion. And the author’s chosen viewpoint does yield some impressive results. Particu- larly to my liking is chapter 9 on Veblen’s sociology of knowledge—how many people knew he...

...P. D. Groenewegen Ronald L. Meek. Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics. Cambridge at the University Press, 1973. Pp. 186. $12.50. Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 BOOK REVIEWS Turgot on Progress, Sociology and Economics. Translated, edited...

...). Merton , Robert K. The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations . Chicago, 1973 . A collection of earlier papers and lectures edited by N. W. Storer. Metzler , Lloyd A. Collected Papers , Cambridge, Mass., 1973 . Esp. articles bearing on many-region multipliers...

... of American Capitalism: Politics and Economics in American Thought. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Marshall and Schumpeter on Evolution: Economic Sociology of Capitalist Development. Edited by Yuichi Shionoya and Tamotsu Nishizawa. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2008. ix; 285 pp...

... Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. xviii, 204 pp. $30.00. The Economics and Sociology of Capitalism. By Joseph A. Schumpeter. Edited with an introduction by Richard Swedberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991. vii, 492 pp. $59.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Schumpeter: A Biography...

...: A Methodology of Economic Sociology Yuichi Shionoya 1. Introduction It is well known that the theoretical economist Joseph Schumpeter, brought up in Austrian economics, disliked Menger’s realism and essen- tialism and defected to Walras’s general equilibrium theory...

... Schelling, Howard Becker, Erving Goffman, and Jessie Bernard incorporated extradisciplinary insights and transformed them to suit their own disciplinary framework. In so doing, they tilted the existing balance between personal agency and social structure, as found in economics and sociology, and helped...

...D. Wade Hands Department of Economics, University of Puget Sound, 1500 North Warner, Tacoma, WA 98416-0140; e-mail: [email protected] . Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 References Ashmore , Malcolm . 1989 . The Reflexive Thesis: Wrighting the Sociology of Knowledge...

.... The logical positivist model of explanation has been dethroned in the philosophy of science. It is about time it was challenged in economics. University of Notre Dame CHARLESK. WILBER Adam Smith’s Sociological Economics. By David A. Reisman. London: Croom Helm...

... University Press 1998 Putting a Different Spin on QALYs: Beyond a Sociological Critique Joshua Cohen In their Health and Efficiency: A Sociology of Health Economics, Mal­ colm Ashmore, Michael Mulkay, and Trevor Pinch ( a m p ) devote several chapters to the concept of quality-adjusted life...

...Malcolm Rutherford Thorstein Veblen and His European Contemporaries, 1880–1940: A Study of Comparative Sociologies . By Tilman Rick . Lewiston, N.Y. : The Edwin Mellen Press , 2011 . 485 pp. $159.95 . Copyright 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 References Gislain...

...Andrew Scull This paper examines the changing relationship between psychiatry and three major social sciences, psychology, sociology, and economics, in the period between the outbreak of the Second World War and the end of the twentieth century. That interaction varied across the different...

...Tiago Mata In the 1960s and 1970s, the social science associations (anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, and history) were faced by a string of academic freedom controversies. I review debates at association meetings and the reports and policy statements of committees on ethics...

... of the new tools were conducted in various fields. Focusing on economics and sociology, and in particular on economic theory and social theory, I track these debates across the immediate postwar years. I show that the intensity and location of tool shock varied noticeably in these two disciplines...

... in labor camps. The last example concerns the work of Stanley Mathewson, published as Restriction of Output among Unorganized Workers (1931). Mathewson’s study was an early example of the use of participant observation methods in industrial sociology and was widely influential. How this varied...

...Tiago Mata Historians of economics are helping us understand how economic knowledge is made. In concert with trends from the sociology and history of science, historians meticulously examine the practices of economists. But as they have trained their attention to the scales and sites where those...