Background
Fligstein, Neil was born on May 23, 1951 in Seattle, Washington, United States. Son of Melvin and Ruth Fligstein.
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(The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies ) Author: Neil Fligstein Oct-2002
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The Transformation of Corporate Control
(Book by Fligstein, Neil)
Book by Fligstein, Neil
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(The Transformation of Corporate Control * * ) Author: Neil Fligstein Oct-1993
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The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies
( Market societies have created more wealth, and more opp...)
Market societies have created more wealth, and more opportunities for more people, than any other system of social organization in history. Yet we still have a rudimentary understanding of how markets themselves are social constructions that require extensive institutional support. This groundbreaking work seeks to fill this gap, to make sense of modern capitalism by developing a sociological theory of market institutions. Addressing the unruly dynamism that capitalism brings with it, leading sociologist Neil Fligstein argues that the basic drift of any one market and its actors, even allowing for competition, is toward stabilization. The Architecture of Markets represents a major and timely step beyond recent, largely empirical studies that oppose the neoclassical model of perfect competition but provide sparse theory toward a coherent economic sociology. Fligstein offers this theory. With it he interprets not just globalization and the information economy, but developments more specific to American capitalism in the past two decades--among them, the 1980s merger movement. He makes new inroads into the ''theory of fields,'' which links the formation of markets and firms to the problems of stability. His political-cultural approach explains why governments remain crucial to markets and why so many national variations of capitalism endure. States help make stable markets possible by, for example, establishing the rule of law and adjudicating the class struggle. State-building and market-building go hand in hand. Fligstein shows that market actors depend mightily upon governments and the members of society for the social conditions that produce wealth. He demonstrates that systems favoring more social justice and redistribution can yield stable markets and economic growth as readily as less egalitarian systems. This book will surely join the classics on capitalism. Economists, sociologists, policymakers, and all those interested in what makes markets function as they do will read it for many years to come.
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The Transformation of Corporate Control by Fligstein, Neil (1993) Paperback
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The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies Reprint edition by Fligstein, Neil (2002) Paperback
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Neil Fligstein
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Education
Bachelor in Psychology, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, 1973. Master of Science in Sociology, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1976. Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology, University Wisconsin, Madison, 1979.
Career
From assistant to associate to full professor sociology University Arizona, Tucson, 1979—1991. Professor sociology University California, Berkeley, 1991—1999, since 1999. Director Center Culture, Organizations and Politics, University California, since 1998.
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Works
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The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies
( Market societies have created more wealth, and more opp...)
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The Transformation of Corporate Control
(Book by Fligstein, Neil)
- (The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies ) Author: Neil Fligstein Oct-2002
- (The Transformation of Corporate Control * * ) Author: Neil Fligstein Oct-1993
- The Transformation of Corporate Control by Fligstein, Neil (1993) Paperback
- The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies Reprint edition by Fligstein, Neil (2002) Paperback
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The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Twenty-First-Century Capitalist Societies
Connections
Married Heather Haveman. 1 child Kylie.
Awards
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Research fellow, Center Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1993-1994, Robert Monnet Center, 1998-1999, Guggenheim fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation, 2004, Rockefeller Center fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, 2007.Research fellow, Center Advanced Study in Behavioral Sciences, 1993-1994, Robert Monnet Center, 1998-1999, Guggenheim fellowship, Guggenheim Foundation, 2004, Rockefeller Center fellow, Rockefeller Foundation, 2007.