This volume presents a collection of essays honoring Professor Thomas E. Weisskopf, one of the most prominent contributors to the field of radical economics. Beginning his academic career at Harvard before moving to the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Professor Weisskopf has spent the past...

This book deals with the neglected links in economics and society. These neglected links are the inner bonds and lines which keep the society and economy together and are almost interconnected although they are very often treated and discussed separately in different discourses. Contemporary...

1. Introduction -- 2. Social Inequality and the Plurality of Life-Styles -- 3. Inequality Processes and Vertical Social Stratification -- 4. Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of Economics -- 5. From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa -- 6. The Order of Social Sciences -- 7. Bounded...

The present dissertation aims at contributing to the understanding of central labor market mechanisms by analyzing open questions on the determinants of firms' labor demand, unemployed individuals' job search behavior and the state's role in shaping peoples' trust and, thereby, affecting labor...