Between 2009 and 2015 Greece underwent a profound sovereign debt crisis that led to a serious political crisis in Europe and the restructuring of Greek debt. We argue that the prevalence of negative narratives about the future contributed to the changes in spreads of Greek bonds during the...

Entrepreneurship has gained significant relevance in contemporary societies due to its role in generating economic and social value, including job creation, new businesses, and technological and social innovations. Scientific interest in entrepreneurship, which dates back to the 17th century,...

The destruction of existing modes of exchange and production in many places is a likely outlook for a world that is unable to deal adequately with its dependency on a "critical zone" of livability (Latour and Weibel 2020). In the Anthropocene, food and water security will probably be more...

Economic activities force earth systems to undergo dramatic changes, while some ecosystems collapse. In consequence, conditions for economic activities change, sometimes rapidly and sometimes in slow motion. Under these circumstances, economic sociologists can no longer afford to study selected...

Suddenly it appears that the natural environment is at the front of sociologists' minds.1 It's an exciting moment, but it's also a bit awkward. Environmental sociologists, alongside other environmental social scientists in adjacent disciplines and interdisciplinary fields, have been working on...

Rising wealth inequality and squeezed public budgets has brought wealth tax back into policy discussions. A net wealth tax might help to boost state revenue and reduce wealth inequality. Yet little is known about citizens’ attitudes towards the design of a net wealth tax (i.e. the tax unit,...

Between 2009 and 2015 Greece underwent a profound sovereign debt crisis that led to a serious political crisis in Europe and the restructuring of Greek debt. We argue that the prevalence of negative narratives about the future contributed to the changes in spreads of Greek bonds during the...

We examine public trust in the European Central Bank (ECB) and its determinants using data from the Bundesbank Household Panel survey for Germany. Employing an interdisciplinary approach that integrates insights from political science and psychology, we offer a fresh perspective on the factors...

What new can be said about crisis? What can be added that does not resonate, at least in most of the West, to a litany that has been documenting and warning, for almost five decades, about the worsening social inequalities and the monetary and financial collapses that are multiplying and...

This research project explores the use of phenomenological sociology in understanding socioeconomic inequality. The study uses a Google online survey to collect data from participants regarding their employment status, household income, experiences of financial constraints, stress related to...

The rise of ‘new populism’ is commonly explained by two opposing approaches known as cultural backlash and economic deprivation. Their antagonism perpetu ates a dichotomous understanding of economy versus identity. This article contrib utes to scholarly attempts to overcome this dichotomy by...

The article is a contribution to the evolving field of competition research. More precisely our paper provides a comprehensive typology of the different ways competitization is and has been studied across different disciplines and research programs. The article goes beyond a classical literature...

Neoclassical economics originated in the late 1800s with the paradigm shift known today as the marginal revolution. This scientific revolution produced a variety of schools of economic thought, each with its own relationship with sociology. This chapter examines the relationship between the...

Tony Lawson, the leading figure of the Cambridge Social Ontology Group, recently published a series of papers devoted to the question of the nature of money. These contributions have to be understood in the context of his broader approach to social ontology, the so called social positioning...

Ministry of Finance advisers play a crucial role in managing public finance matters, acting as a bridge between bureaucratic and political realms. This article aims to identify the essential skills and experiences that advisers must possess and how these professional qualities relate to their...

Mit den politischen Konzepten der nachhaltigen Bioökonomie ist die Hoffnung auf Wirtschaftsformen verbunden, die zirkulär produzieren, erneuerbare Ressourcen nutzen sowie sozial gerechtere Zugänge zu Ressourcen ermöglichen. Die Diskurse zu solchen Konzepten zeigen vorhandene und neu...

Culture's influence on economic outcomes is no longer controversial among economists even if it remains largely ignored in many areas of economics. This paper tackles a different question: why does culture change? The underlying premise adopted here is that culture changes because incentives...

Preferences for status are typically attributed to two distinct channels: self-image, in which individuals derive utility from being richer than others, and social-image, in which individuals value being seen as richer by others. While both channels are believed to be at play, little is known...

In this Handbook chapter, I examine how integrating ethnographic and folklore records has shaped research on culture and economics in the 21st century. Advances in text analysis techniques and the incorporation of historical and satellite data have transformed the field. I explore how George...

1. The Emergence of the Capitalism-Critical Society -- 2. Capitalism -- 3. Critique of Capitalism -- 4. Causes of the Critique of Capitalism -- 5. Emergence and Development of Societies -- 6. Possible Alternatives to Capitalism? -- 7. Departure from the Capitalism-Critical Society.

1. Understanding Deeply Without Doing Calculations2. The Schools of Economic Thought as Modes of Existence3. Topos for In-Depth Study of Economic Life4. Al-Fa's Notion of Mash Associating 'What We Live From' and 'What We Live In'5. Towards an Economic Vocabulary Related to Life6. In Search of...

We review the economic literature on self-image, which conceptualizes identity as a set of beliefs about one's core traits, values, goals, and social ties. Self-image concerns lead individuals to process information and make choices in non-standard ways that help affirm and protect certain...

This article pursues two goals. First, to reflect on how <italic>historical Ordnungsökonomik</italic> (Economics of Order) illuminates the politico-economic crises in today's Western democracies via the increasing parallels to the fragilities and fractures of the 1930s. Second, based on these historical...

The Italian Society for Economic Sociology (SISEC) is a national association that aims to represent Italy-based scholars in economic sociology, the sociology of work and labour markets, and the sociology of organisations. Its last two conferences included rich and highly participated sessions on...

Misunderstandings are often perceived as something to be avoided yet delineate an integrative part of everyday work. This book addresses the role that misunderstandings play in collaborative work and, above all, their effects on the organisational result. As exemplified by project collaboration...