An Economic Sociology of Law Reimagined: Beyond Embeddedness

This book critically examines the concept of “embeddedness”: the core concept of an economic sociology of law (ESL).

It suggests that our ways of doing, talking, and thinking about law, economy, and society, reproduce and re-entrench mainstream approaches, shaping our thoughts and actions such that we perform according to the model. Taking a deep dive into one example – the concept of embeddedness – this book combines insights from law, sociology, economics, and psychology to show that while...