Information, Knowledge, and Economic Life: An Introduction to the Sociology of Markets

by Alex Preda (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2009

  $57.13

  As financial markets have assumed an increasing prominence in societies, economic sociology has provided cogent explanations of their effect on our world. This book moves from the analysis of economic exchanges to that of the social institutions which support global markets, highlighting the social and cultural factors shaping them.