This is a stimulating set of essays produced by a distinguished set of contributors. Michael Smith, Canadian Journal of Political Sciences This is a stimulating set of essays produced by a distinguished set of contributors. Michael Smith, Canadian Journal of Political Sciences This valuable and rich collection of essays challenges the assumption of the self-adjusting market on three major grounds: first, by arguing that economic activity is coordinated bye several different institutional mechanisms and that a variety of capitalist models exist, as opposed to the idea of a single one; second, by stressing Karl Polanyi's notion of the embededness of economic institutions...third, by showing that specific forms of economic coordination are more likely to be used at some level of society...than at others. American Jrnl of Sociology This volume brings together a range of important and influential contributions from various disciplines in which this new institutional analysis has been applied. Comparative Labor Law & Policy Journal