February 19, 2003

With a spectacular view above Cayuga's Waters, leaders in economic sociology convened at the top floor of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell campus to give presentations in celebration of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society's first year and to begin to envision its future.

Presenters included:

• Francis Fukuyama
  Johns Hopkins University
  "Still Disenchanted? The Modernity of Postindustrial Capitalism"
   
• Neil Smelser
  University of California at Berkeley
  "Theory in Contemporary Economic Sociology"
   
• Richard Swedberg
  Cornell University
  "'A Nation of Stockholders': Conflicts of Interest and the Corporate Scandals of 2001-2002"

Among the participants from Cornell were:

• Mabel Berezin, Moderator
  Sociology
   
• Dominick LaCapra
  History/Society for the Humanities
   
• Peter Katzenstein
  Government
   
• Kaushik Basu
  Economics
   
• Frank Young
  Rural Sociology
   
• Robert Frank
  Johnson Graduate School of Management
   
• Walter Mebane
  Government

Opening remarks were provided by Philip Lewis, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell. Victor Nee, Goldwin Smith Professor of Sociology and CSES Director, gave the closing remarks.