Advanced Topics in Governance and Organisations: Economic Sociology

Code: ENP 129

Type: Elective

Credits/Course (number of hours): 10/150

Content

• Differences between economic and sociological approaches to the economy.
• Influence of social science classics on economic sociology.
• Karl Polanyi and the concept of embeddedness.
• Social networks as an alternative to economic atomism.
• State, market, and organisations.
• Social movements and the transformation of markets.
• Culture and power in markets and organisations.