Should governments be involved in economic affairs? Challenging prevailing wisdom about the benefits of self-regulating markets, Nina Bandelj and Elizabeth Sowers offer a uniquely sociological perspective to emphasize that states can never be divorced from economy. From defining property rights and regulating commodification of labor to setting corporate governance standards and international exchange rules, the state continuously manages the functioning of markets and influences ...
قائمة المحتويات
Detailed contents vi
List of Illustrations ix
1 Introduction 1
2 Property: The State’s Role in Capitalist and Socialist
Economies 26
3 Money: The State’s Role i...
عن المؤلف
Nina Bandelj is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine
Elizabeth Sowers is a Doctoral Student at the University of California, Irvine