In this landmark volume, J. Rodgers Hollingsworth, Karl H. Müller, and Ellen Jane Hollingsworth take a first step towards imposing order on the increasingly diverse field of socio-economics by embedding the various disciplines and sub-disciplines in a common core. The distinguished contributors in this volume show how institutions, governance arrangements, societal sectors, organizations, individual actors, and innovativeness are intertwined and, ultimately, how individuals and firms have a high degree of autonomy. By offering original suggestions and guidelines for developing a socio-economics research agenda focused on institutional analysis, Advancing Socio-Economics: An Institutionalist Perspective, will enlighten all interested in the social sciences.

Other primary creator: David Gear
Contributions by: Tom R. Burns, Marcus Carson, Steven Casper, Marie-Laure Djelic, Amitai Etzioni, Greg Greenberg, Jerald Hage, Peter A. Hall, Robert Hanneman, Geoffrey Hodgson, J Rogers Hollingsworth, Claus Offe, Raymond Russell, Robin Stryker, Sigurt Vitols, Fans van Waarden