Richard Swedberg

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Richard Swedberg is a Swedish sociologist at Cornell University. Swedberg has been a primary contributor to developing a sociological approach to the analysis of the economy. This "new economic sociology" draws on networks analysis, the sociology of culture and the sociology of organizations - as well as on the sociological classics, especially Max Weber. He has written on the works of Weber and Schumpeter in particular, and in many different ways helped to introduce economic sociology into academic life. His most important work is Max Weber and the Idea of Economic Sociology (1998) and (with Neil Smelser) Handbook of Economic Sociology (1994, 2005).