Introduction about economic sociology.
Society or community.
The modern capitalistic economy.
Adam Smith and Karl Marx: from use value to exchange value.
Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx, Comte, Weber, Galbraith, Luhmann.
M. Foucault: biopolitics, capitalism and the homo oeconomicus.
The money ‘philosophy’ (G.Simmel). The leisure class (T. Veblen).
Economy, religion and capitalism (M. Weber).
Capitalism as a religion (Benjamin).
From fordism to network.
Technics and capitalism (G. Anders).
The heavy modernity and the liquid modernity (Z. Bauman).
The Great Transformation (Polanyi).
New deal, Beveridge, neoliberism. The welfare state.
Ordoliberalism and neoliberism.
Globalization and the crisis of 2008.
Globalization and the new work organization.
The consumption society.
The mass-society.
Network economy and society.
Time and economy.
Economy, society, democracy or oligarchy.