"Principles of Economic Sociology"
September 4, 2003
Richard Swedberg, Cornell University
"Scientific Conference on International and Development Economics in Honor of Henry Y. Wan, Jr."
September 6-7, 2003
co-sponsored by CSES, Cornell's Department of Economics, The Center for Analytical Economics, and The East Asia Program. The Conference was held at The Statler Hotel & J. Willard Marriott Executive Education Center, Cornell University
"Networks and Jazz"
September 11, 2003
Douglas Heckathorn, Cornell University
"A New Institutional Approach to Economic Sociology"
September 18, 2003
Victor Nee, Cornell University
"The Intergovernmental Network of World Trade"
September 25, 2003
Paul Ingram, Columbia University
"Welfare-Maximizing Norms"
October 1, 2003
Robert Ellickson, Yale University
Excerpts from Order Without Law
"Networks and Norms"
October 16, 2003
Barnaby Marsh, Oxford University
"From Widgets to Digits: Employment Regulation for the Changing Workplace"
October 23, 2003
Katherine Stone, Cornell University
Excerpts from Widgets to Digits
"Welfare Capitalism: Understanding Institutional Change in the New Deal"
October 30, 2003
G. William Domhoff, University of California at Santa Cruz
"The New Institutional Economics: Challenges and Prospects"
November 6, 2003
Oliver Williamson, University of California at Berkeley
Download .pdf of Williamson's Transaction Cost Economics and Economic Sociology
"Understanding Network Emergence"
November 13, 2003
Brian Uzzi, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Download .pdf of abstract of Uzzi's talkUnderstanding Network Emergence
"Institutional Design and its Discontents"
November 20, 2003
Sigi Lindenberg, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Download .pdf of Prof. Lindenberg's paper
New Directions for the Study of Wealth Mini-Conference
November 21, 2003
Speakers, Melvin Oliver (Ford Foundation), Dalton Conley (NYU), and Victor Nee (Cornell) present their ideas for directions in the study of wealth. Discussants Richard Swedberg, David Grusky, Stephen Morgan, David Strang, and David Harris lead discussions following each speaker
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Conference Agenda:
Introductory Remarks:Richard Swedberg, Cornell Univ.
My Research and Ideas for the Future Study of Wealth,
Melvin Oliver, Ford Foundation
Discussant: David Grusky, Cornell Univ.
My Research and Ideas for the Future Study of Wealth,
Dalton Conley, NYU
Discussant: Stephen Morgan, Cornell Univ.
Coffee Break
Institutional Preconditions of Modern Wealth-Making,
Victor Nee, Cornell Univ.
Discussant: David Strang, Cornell Univ.
Round Table Discussion led by David Harris, Cornell Univ.
"Economy of Dreams: The Production of Hope in the Tokyo Financial Markets"
December 4, 2003
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Cornell University
Download .pdf of Prof. Miyazaki's paper
Comparing China and India's Economic Miracle Symposium
January 30, 2004
A small group of leading economists and sociologists who have expertise on China and India examine the relationship between state-crafted institutional innovation, globalization, and economic performance from the perspective of comparative institutional analysis in economics and sociology.
Victor Nee, Cornell University
Opening Remarks
Vivek Chibber, NYU
"State-Building and Capitalist Industrialization in India"
Discussant: Montek Ahluwalia, International Monetary Fund
Sonja Opper, University of Tuebingen, Germany
"Politicized Capitalism in China"
Discussant: Vivek Chibber, New York University, New York
Montek Ahluwalia, International Monetary Fund
"The Indian Experience on Reforms and Growth"
Discussant: Debin Ma, Foundation for Advanced Studies in International Development, Tokyo, Japan
Debin Ma, Foundation for Advanced Studies in International Development
"A Historical Perspective: Economic Growth in the Lower Yangzi Region"
Discussant: Sonja Opper, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Kaushik Basu, Cornell University
Closing Remarks: Comparing China and India
"Emotions and the Economy"
February 5, 2004
Mabel Berezin, Cornell University
Download .pdf of Prof. Berezin's paper
"Certifying the Harvest: Legal and Private Governance in the Organic Food Industry"
February 13, 2004
Brandon Lee, Cornell University
"The International Diffusion of Public Sector Downsizing"
February 19, 2004
David Strang, Cornell University
"The Diffusion of Ideas over Contested Terrain: The [Non]Adoption of a Shareholder Value Orientation Among German Firms"
February 27, 2004
Peer Fiss, Queen's School of Business, Kingston, Ontario
"Mission Creep and Discretion in Sociological Perspective: The Case of IMF Conditionality"
March 11, 2004
Sarah Babb, Boston College
"Shareholder Value and the Transformation of the American Economy, 1984-2001"
April 1, 2004
Neil Fligstein, University of California, Berkeley
Download .pdf of Prof. Fligstein's paper
Critical Anatomy of the New American Empire Conference
April 8-10, 2004
Humanists and social scientists engaged in critical analysis of contemporary American global power, including the relationship between globalization and American empire, the ethics of hegemony, new doctrines of war and preemption, and new political subjects of empire
Download .pdf of conference agenda
"Digital Inequality"
April 15, 2004
Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University
Link to paper at Russell Sage Foundation website
"The Economics of Hybrid Organizations"
April 22, 2004
Claude Menard, Universite de Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne
"Blind Trust: Market Control, State Policy, and the Dynamics of Competitive Intensity in the Early American Film Industry, 1893-1920"
April 23, 2004
Stephen Mezias, New York University
Download .pdf of Mezias' paper
"On Austrian Institutions: What's in it for a Market Sociology?"
April 29, 2004
Anders Liljenberg, Stockholm School of Economics
Download .pdf of Liljenberg's paper
"Economic Sociology of Development" Panel,
Cornell University
May 7-9, 2004
In the years since Allyn Young's classic paper, "Increasing Returns and Economic Progress" (1928), the discipline of development studies has advanced rapidly. This conference, 75 Years of Development Research, in memory of Young, who was Professor of Economics at Cornell, was a major stock-taking of the discipline. The conference consisted of keynote lectures [by Jeff Lehman (President, Cornell University), Stephen Morris (Yale), Abhijit Banerjee (MIT), Jean Ensminger (CalTech), Dani Rodrik (Harvard), among others], panel discussions, and the presentation of 95 papers in eight sessions taking place over three days.
This panel, "Economic Sociology of Development", was organized by Victor Nee and featured Jean-Philippe Platteau (University of Namur), Richard Swedberg (Cornell), and Stephen Morgan (Cornell).
"The New Institutional Economic Sociology", Department of Sociology, Beijing University
June 16, 2004
Victor Nee will present a lecture on the new institutional economic sociology which aims to integrate a focus on social relations
and institutions in the study of economic behavior by highlighting the
mechanisms that regulate the manner in which formal elements of institutional structures combine with informal social organization of networks and norms to facilitate, motivate, and govern economic action. Unlike the old institutionalism, new institutionalism in economics uses standard economic theory to understand why economic institutions emerged the way they did and not otherwise.
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