| Preface | ix |
| 1 | Advancing Socio-Economics | 1 |
| Part I | On Socio-Economic Concepts and Methods | |
| Editors' Introduction | 17 |
| 2 | On Multi-Level Analysis | 19 |
| 3 | Towards a Socio-Economic Paradigm | 37 |
| 4 | The Future of Socio-Economics and of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics | 51 |
| 5 | On Socio-Economic Embeddedness | 59 |
| Part II | On Institutions | |
| Editors' Introduction | 83 |
| 6 | On Institutional Embeddedness | 87 |
| 7 | Actors, Paradigms, and Institutional Dynamics: The Theory of Social Rule Systems Applied to Radical Reforms | 109 |
| 8 | Institutional Blindness in Modern Economics | 147 |
| 9 | Market Institutions as Communicating Vessels: Changes between Economic Coordination Principles as a Consequence of Deregulation Policies | 171 |
| 10 | Civil Society and Social Order: Demarcating and Combining Market, State, and Community | 213 |
| Part III | On Social Systems of Production--and Beyond | |
| Editors' Introduction | 235 |
| 11 | Social Systems of Production and Beyond | 239 |
| 12 | Globalization and Economic Adjustment in Germany | 253 |
| 13 | National Institutional Frameworks and High-Technology Innovation in Germany: The Case of Biotechnology | 277 |
| 14 | The Financial System of Industrial Finance and the Social System of Production | 307 |
| 15 | The Role of Institutional Processes in the Formation of Worker Cooperatives in Israel, 1924-1990 | 331 |
| 16 | Exporting the American Model--Historical Roots of Globalization | 351 |
| 17 | Institutional Pathways, Networks, and the Differentiation of National Economies | 381 |
| References | 399 |
| About the Contributors | 435 |
| Index | 441 |