ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces readers to International Handbook of Economic Sociology. It proposes a correspondence and affinity between economic sociology within sociology and its elements in economics. It suggests that an expression of such a correspondence is the tendency to multiple independent, including simultaneous, discoveries of economic sociology concepts and findings in sociology and economics. Instances include the social economy, the social constitution and determination of the economy, the conception and designation of economic sociology, institutionalism, the social embeddedness of economic activities, the social nature and concept of exchange value, wealth, market, competition, entrepreneurship and invention, and social-economic statics and dynamics.
