1. Innovation and social change -- 2. Inventors and creativity -- 3. The sociology of economic inventions -- 4. The small worlds of creativity and innovation -- 5. Innovation systems -- 6. The geography of innovation -- 7. Innovation and local development.

Beyond the Market launches a sociological investigation into economic efficiency. Prevailing economic theory, which explains efficiency using formalized rational choice models, often simplifies human behavior to the point of distortion. Jens Beckert finds such theory to be particularly weak in...