Traditionally, economists have viewed social relations as "friction" or "impediments" to exchange and have excluded social relations from their analyses by assuming autonomous actors. Recently, however, a number of scholars-economists, sociologists, anthropologists, and other social...

<DIV><DIV>Tupperware Home Parties, Shaklee Corporation, Amway, Mary Kay Cosmetics—theirs is an approach to business that violates many of the basic tenets of modern American commerce. Yet these direct selling organizations, fashioned by charismatic leaders and built upon devoted armies of door-to-door...</div></div>

These articles, over thirty in total, reflect the best and latest thought in the exciting field of economic sociology. Beginning with the foundation of Smith, Marx, Engels and Polanyi, the volume gathers some of the best writings by economic sociologists that consider national and world...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword: Integrating the Social into the Built Environment -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Green Building Progress and Shifting Social Structures -- Constructing Green: Past and Future Research in Social Structures -- Constructing Green: Contributions...