Kyle Harrison
to-read
Economics and Sociology
- Author
- Richard Swedberg
- Published
- 1990
- Pages
- 361
- Recommended
- Once
Why it’s on the list: Richard Swedberg’s interviews with seventeen economists and sociologists — Gary Becker, Kenneth Arrow, Albert Hirschman, Amartya Sen, James Coleman and Mark Granovetter among them — about where the boundary between their disciplines runs. A founding document of the new economic sociology: markets are embedded in social relations, and price theory alone cannot say what a commercial society does to the people in it.
Where I heard about it
- Brendan McCord — on his Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List (March 2026), as the methodological entry in the Capitalism, Morality, and Culture section. Full transcription: The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List.
Connections
- The Philosopher-Entrepreneur Reading List — the curriculum this card came from.
- Economics — one of the two disciplines whose boundary is the subject.
- Capitalism — markets read as social structures rather than as abstractions.
- Institutions — embeddedness as an institutional claim about exchange.