Discover how sudden economic stops disrupt economies, trigger recessions, and lead to currency crises. Learn about their ...

Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker was internationally renowned within the economics profession, but was not nearly as well known among the general public as he deserved to be. More important, ...

The borderland between works advocating organic changes in our economic structure and works which are devoted to a colorless scientific view of social phenomena is found in four volumes, three dealing ...

Economics often borrows ideas from the sciences, yet unlike physics or chemistry, no country has ever run a controlled, pure economic experiment on a national scale. A pure experiment requires ...

In “Economic Sociology,” Charles A. Dana Professor of Sociology Francesco Duina presents students with a social and philosophical question. “I ask, ‘How many of you like a lot of inequality?’ Usually ...

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...

This article argues that collective development of an understanding of the global financial crisis and ensuing austerity requires an alliance between sociology, 'heterodox economics' and related ...

Yahoo is hiring two scientists in the areas of economics and sociology to head up its research in online markets and social networks, the company is expected to announce Thursday. R. Preston McAfee, ...

This seminar will serve as an introduction into current work in the political sociology of developing societies. It focuses on the debate in "transitology"-- how do societies and states transform ...

The Florence School of Transnational Governance (STG) seeks to appoint an outstanding scholar in Economic Sociology or adjacent fields such as Political Sociology and Micro-Political Economy. We ...

This piece was originally featured on Research Matters. Across disciplines, academia is reckoning with its own whiteness. In 2017, 76 percent of university faculty members in the United States were ...