Abstract
At least since Weber, some sociologists have focused on topics lying on the border between their field and economics. Of the 13 chapters in this volume, 10 may be classified this way. The remaining 3—the chapters by Averitt, Lang and Dickens, and Williamson—represent a more unusual genre: economists working the other side of the border. However, such efforts also have a history that dates back more than 50 years, to the work of John Commons and the institutional economists (see Williamson, Chapter 8).
... at some point economic conditions tend to become causally important, and often decisive, for almost all social groups, at least those which have major cultural significance; conversely, the economy is usually also influenced by the autonomous structure of social action within which it exists.
—Max Weber (1922/1968:341)
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England, P., Farkas, G. (1988). Economic and Sociological Views of Industries, Firms, and Jobs. In: Farkas, G., England, P. (eds) Industries, Firms, and Jobs. Springer Studies in Work and Industry. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3536-6_14
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