Can shareholder-owned corporations maximize profits without harming their stakeholders? This was the central question of the first QUASI (Questions and Unanswers About Social Innovation) webinar. The ‘Yes’ side argues that 1) firms are conditioned to avoid harming stakeholders, 2) firms with...

Financialization refers to the increasing importance of finance, financial markets, and financial institutions to the workings of the economy. This article reviews evidence on the causes and consequences of financialization in the United States and around the world, with particular attention to...

Economic sociology is a rapidly expanding field, applying sociology's core insight--that individuals behave according to scripts that are tied to social roles--to economic behavior. It places homo economicus (that tried-and-true fictive actor who is completely rational, acts only out of...