Dealing with the subject of microeconomics, this book argues that economic analysis is essential to understand much of the behavior traditionally studied by sociologists, anthropologists, and other social scientists. It…

Since his pioneering Since his pioneering application of economic analysis to racial discrimination, Gary S. Becker has shown that an economic approach can provide a unified framework for understanding all…

Milton Friedman was lauded as the grandmaster of free-market economic theory in the postwar era. This book collects many of Friedman’s papers on topics in economics that were published in…

This work shows how common sociological themes such as socialization, social interaction, the social construction of time, and deviance are experienced in work settings as diverse as the factory, the…