This landmark volume takes a first step towards imposing order on the increasingly diverse field of socio-economics by embedding the various disciplines and sub-disciplines in a common core. The distinguished contributors in this volume show how institutions, governance arrangements, societal sectors, organizations, individual actors, and innovativeness are intertwined and, ultimately, how individuals and firms have a high degree of autonomy.

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Advancing Socio-Economics Part 3 Part I: On Socio-Economic Concepts and Methods Chapter 4 On Multi-Level Analysis Chapter 5 Towards a Socio-Economic Paradigm Chapter 6 The Future of Socio-Economics and of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics Chapter 7 On Socio-Economic Embeddedness Part 8 Part II: On Institutions Chapter 9 On Institutional Embeddedness Chapter 10 Actors, Paradigms, and Institutional Dynamics: The Theory of Social Rule Systems Applied to Radical Reforms Chapter 11 Institutional Blindness in Modern Economics Chapter 12 Market Institutions as Communicating Vessels: Changes between Economic Coordination Principles as a Consequence of Deregulation Policies Chapter 13 Civil Society and Social Order: Demarcating and Combining Market, State, and Community Part 14 Part III: On Social Systems of Production-and Beyond Chapter 15 Social Systems of Production and Beyond Chapter 16 Globalization and Economic Adjustment in Germany Chapter 17 National Institutional Frameworks and High-Technology Innovation in Germany: The Case of Biotechnology Chapter 18 The Financial System of Industrial Finance in the Social System of Production, 1924-1990 Chapter 19 The Role of Institutional Processes in the Formation of Worker Cooperatives in Israel Chapter 20 Exporting the American Model-Historical Roots of Globalization Chapter 21 Institutional Pathways, Networks, and the Differentiation of National Economies