The Economic Sociology of Capitalism Edited by Victor Nee & Richard Swedberg The Economic Sociology of Capitalism represents a major step forward in the use of economic sociology to illuminate the nature and workings of Capitalism amid the far-reaching changes of the contemporary era of global capitalism. Including sixteen chapters by leading scholars in economic sociology, it presents both big-picture analyses of capitalism and more focused pieces on institutions crucial to capitalism. The first section addresses core issues and problems in the new study of capitalism; the second considers America, the world's leading capitalist economy; and the third focuses on the convergence stemming from the global transformation of capitalism and the challenge of explaining institutional change. The contributors, which follow a foreword by economic historian Avner Greif and the editors' introduction, are by Mitchel Y. Abolafia, James N. Baron, Michael T. Hannan, Mary C. Brinton, John L. Campbell, Gerald F. Davis, Christopher Marquis, Paul DiMaggio, Joseph Cohen, Peter Evans, Neil Fligstein, John Freeman, Francis Fukuyama, ko Kuwabara, Victor Nee, Dougles C. North, AnnaLee Saxenian, Richard Swedbwrg, and Viviana A. Zelizer. Victor Nee is Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. He is the coauthor of Remaking the American Mainstream and coeditor of he New Institutionalism in Sociology. Richard Swedberg is Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society at Cornell University. He is the author of Principles of Economic Sociology and Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology (both Princeton) and the coeditor of The Handbook of Economic Sociology, second Edition (Princeton).