Abstract
List of Figures and Tables ix Preface xi Chapter One: Economic Sociology: Past Achievements and Present Challenges 1 Chapter Two: The Assumptions That Ground the Field 10 Chapter Three: Social Capital 27 Chapter Four: The Concept of Institutions 48 Chapter Five: The Concept of Social Class 71 Chapter Six: Social Class (Continued) 101 Chapter Seven: The Informal Economy 130 Chapter Eight: Ethnic Enclaves and Middleman Minorities 162 Chapter Nine: Transnational Communities 195 Chapter Ten: Markets, Models, and Regulation 220 Notes 237 Bibliography 261 Index 291