In this essay, the author analyzes social science thinking about the capitalist market from
instrumentalism to institutionalism and the recent turn toward more cultural economics, and …

Economics and culture have usually been kept apart in academic discussion. The resulting
division is damaging to economics, since important cultural questions such as the formation …

This strikingly original work challenges a familiar assumption within cultural studies: that
cultural practices happen in an everyday realm that is potentially open-ended, involving …

Systematiccultural economy'analysis is a recent development in a long history of
sociological thought about the relationship between economy and culture. Two recent …

... the book is excellent in setting out and explaining a fundamental critique of economics
one moreover that has been missed by most other current critics of the field. Making this …

The 'West'constructs itself, in part, through the discipline of political economy. Political
economy, as theory and practice, depends on a utopian self-idealization of the West as …

Phrases such ascorporate culture′,market culture′ and theknowledge economy′, have
now become familiar clarion calls in the world of work. They are calls that have echoed …

This article examines the role of culture in economic life. Research about economic meaning-
making challenges economists' universalistic assumptions about the microinteractional and …

We live in an unusual historical period in that the business of economic analysis has
become associated not just with one discipline, but with one part of one discipline …

The division between economic and socio-cultural analysis constitutes a kind of deep
structure of modern Western thought. While it has been a favourite pastime of critical thinking …