Overview
- Takes the concept of fields and field theory and applies them to economic history
- Demonstrates how to do a field analysis
- Grounds economic ideas and discourses in concrete structures and fields
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Part I
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Part II
Keywords
- Russian economic thought
- Political economics
- Social theory
- Economic discourse
- Soviet economic thought
- Economic policy
- Economic change
- Stalinist industrialization
- Stalinist collectivization
- Stalinist industrialisation
- Stalinist collectivisation
- Perestroika
- Economic theory
- Russian Finance
- Russian Markets
- Russian Economy
- Field Theory
- Russian Economic History
- Russian Political Economy
- Organizational Fields
About this book
This book explores the application of field theory (patterns of interaction) to Russian economic history, and how social and political fields mediate the influences of institutions, structures, discourses and ideologies in the creation and dissemination of economic thinking, theory and practice. Using focused cases on Russia's economy from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, Hass and co-authors expand the empirical basis of field studies to provide new material on Russian economic history. The cases are divided into two complementary halves: i) The role of fields of institutions, discourses, and structures in the development of Russian economic thought, especially economic theories and discourses; and ii) The role of fields in the real adoption and implementation of policies in Soviet and Russian economic history.
With developed discussion of fields and field theory, this book moves beyond sociology to demonstrate to other disciplines the relation of fields and fieldtheory to other frameworks and methodological considerations for field analysis, as well as providing new empirical insights and narratives not as well-known abroad.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Jeffrey Hass is Associate Professor at the University of Richmond, USA, and St. Petersburg State University, Russia. His areas of expertise are economic sociology, political sociology, political economy, social change, sociology of power, organizational sociology, and comparative/historical sociology. He has published on post-socialism, including Rethinking the Post-Soviet Experience: Markets, Moral Economies, and Cultural Contradictions of Post-Socialist Russia with Palgrave Macmillan in 2011. He is currently continuing this line of work on post-socialist political economy, as well as investigating the politics and practices of survival in the Blockade of Leningrad.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Re-Examining the History of the Russian Economy
Book Subtitle: A New Analytic Tool from Field Theory
Editors: Jeffrey K. Hass
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75414-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75413-0Published: 28 June 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09225-2Published: 08 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75414-7Published: 14 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 374
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Economic History, Historical Sociology, International Political Economy, Field Theory and Polynomials, Institutional/Evolutionary Economics, History of Economic Thought/Methodology