Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology
Director, Center for the Study of Economy and Society
Department of Sociology
EXPERTISE
Economic sociology; theory; market transitions from state socialism; comparative institutional analysis; immigration and ethnic/racial inequality
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
Advancing new institutional economic sociology through empirical studies that include: a sociological study of entrepreneurs and the rise of capitalism in China; a theory of innovation; and endogenous institutional change.
RELATED LINKS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Recent Books
Remaking the American Mainstream: Assimilation and the New Immigration (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003).
On Capitalism, Co-editor and contributor with Richard Swedberg (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007)
The Economic Sociology of Capitalism. Co-editor and contributor with Richard Swedberg (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005).
The New Institutionalism in Sociology.
Co-editor and contributor with Mary Brinton. (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1998).
Selected Articles and Chapters
"The New Institutionalism in Economics and Sociology." In Handbook of Economic Sociology (2nd ed.) edited by Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004.
"Market Transition and the Firm: Institutional Change and Income Inequality in Urban China." (with Yang Cao). In Market and Organizational Review, 2005. [This is an electronic version of an article published in Management and Organization Review. Complete citation information for the final version of the paper is available via the journal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=1740-8776 or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com].
"Understanding the Diversity of Immigrant Incorporation." (with Jimy Sanders). Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2001.
"The Role of the State in Making a Market Economy." Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 156, 2000. Pp. 64-88.
"Path Dependent Societal Transformation: Stratification in Mixed Economies." (with Yang Cao). Theory and Society 28, 1999. Pp. 799-834.
"Norms and Networks in Economic and Organizational Performance." American Economic Review 87.4, 1998. Pp. 85-9.
"The Emergence of a Market Society: Changing Mechanisms of Stratification in China." American Journal of Sociology 100, 1996. Pp. 908-49.
"Job Transitions in an Immigrant Metropolis: Ethnic Boundaries and Mixed Economy." (with Jimy Sanders and Scott Sernau). American Sociological Review 59, 1994. Pp. 849-72.
"Organizational Dynamics of Market Transition: Hybrid Property Forms and Mixed Economy in China." Administrative Science Quarterly 37, 1992. Pp. 1-27.
"A Theory of Market Transition: From Redistribution to Markets in State Socialism." American Sociological Review 54, 1989. Pp. 663-81.
Remaking the Economic Institutions of Socialism: China and Eastern Europe. (Co-editor with David Stark, with the assistance of Mark Selden). Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989.
