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Fred L. Block

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Fred L. Block's Degrees

PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Fred L. Block is an American sociologist, and Research Professor of Sociology at UC Davis. Block is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading economic and political sociologists. His interests are wide ranging. He has been noted as an influential follower of Karl Polanyi.

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The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (2001) (8714)
Social Foundations of Postindustrial Economies (2001) (4115)
From Poverty to Perversity: Ideas, Markets, and Institutions over 200 Years of Welfare Debate (2005) (467)
Swimming Against the Current: The Rise of a Hidden Developmental State in the United States (2008) (436)
Postindustrial Possibilities: A Critique of Economic Discourse (1990) (397)
Karl Polanyi and the writing of The Great Transformation (2003) (321)
Regulatory Capitalism: How it Works, Ideas for Making it Work Better (2009) (287)
Polanyi Symposium: a conversation on embeddedness (2004) (213)
State of Innovation: The U.S. Government's Role in Technology Development (2010) (198)
Late Capitalism (1977) (187)
The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite (2014) (183)
The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique (2014) (170)
The Origins of International Economic Disorder: A Study of United States International Monetary Policy from World War II to the Present (1978) (147)
Beyond Relative Autonomy: State Managers as Historical Subjects (1980) (143)
Where do Innovations Come From? Transformations in the U.S. Economy, 1970-2006 (2009) (141)
Vision and Method in Historical Sociology: Beyond the Economistic Fallacy: The Holistic Social Science of Karl Polanyi (1984) (138)
The Power of Market Fundamentalism (2014) (122)
Revising state theory (1987) (118)
The mean season : the attack on the welfare state (1989) (102)
Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital, and the Housing Bubble (2010) (97)
Understanding the Diverging Trajectories of the United States and Western Europe: A Neo-Polanyian Analysis (2007) (84)
Explaining the transformation in the US innovation system: the impact of a small government program (2013) (84)
The Capitalist System (1978) (80)
In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law (2003) (79)
Polanyi’s Double Movement and the Reconstruction of Critical Theory (2008) (73)
Where Do Innovations Come From? Transformations in the U.S. National Innovation System, 1970-2006 (2008) (67)
No Slack: The Financial Lives of Low-Income Americans (2014) (60)
The Vampire State: And Other Myths and Fallacies about the U.S. Economy (1996) (51)
The Geometry of Imperialism (1979) (50)
The Fiscal Crisis of the Capitalist State (1981) (48)
Political choice and the multiple “logics” of capital (1986) (41)
Deconstructing capitalism as a system (2000) (41)
Productivity as a Social Problem: The Uses and Misuses of Social Indicators (1986) (37)
Beyond Corporate Liberalism (1977) (36)
Innovation and the Invisible Hand of Government (2015) (35)
Democratizing Finance* (2014) (33)
Could we End Poverty in a Postindustrial Society? The Case for a Progressive Negative Income Tax (1997) (33)
Contesting markets all the way down (2011) (31)
Postindustrial Development and the Obsolescence of Economic Categories (1985) (29)
Economic Instability and Military Strength: The Paradoxes of the 1950 Rearmament Decision (1980) (27)
New productive forces and the contradictions of contemporary capitalism (1979) (27)
Networks and Public Policies in the Global South: The Chilean Case and the Future of the Developmental Network State (2012) (26)
The Ruling Class Does Not Rule: Notes on the Marxist Theory of the State (2021) (25)
Crisis and renewal: the outlines of a twenty-first century new deal (2011) (23)
Relational Work in Market Economies (2012) (23)
Capitalism without Class Power (1992) (21)
State of Innovation (2011) (19)
Using social theory to leap over historical contingencies: A comment on Robinson (2013) (18)
Contradictions of Self-Regulating Markets (1991) (17)
Varieties of what? Should we still be Using the Concept of Capitalism? (2012) (16)
Relational Work and the Law: Recapturing the Legal Realist Critique of Market Fundamentalism (2013) (15)
Déjà Vu, All Over Again: A Comment on Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, “Winner-Take-All Politics” (2010) (15)
The New Fiscal Sociology: Read Their Lips: Taxation and the Right-Wing Agenda (2009) (14)
Problems with the concept of capitalism in the social sciences (2019) (12)
Knowledge Governance: Where Do Innovations Come From? Transformations in the US Economy, 1970–2006 (2012) (12)
The Compassion Gap in American Poverty Policy (2006) (12)
Karl Polanyi in an Age of Uncertainty (2017) (11)
Financial Democratization and the Transition to Socialism* (2019) (10)
Recapitalizing America: Alternatives to the corporate distortion of national policy (1983) (10)
Capitalism: The Future of an Illusion (2018) (9)
The Return of Karl Polanyi (2014) (9)
Organizing versus Mobilizing: Poor People's Movements after 25 Years (2003) (9)
Between Law and Diplomacy: The Social Contexts of Disputing at the World Trade Organization (2012) (8)
THE ACID DRAINAGE TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE 1 (2004) (8)
Do as I say, or as I do. (2015) (8)
Network Failure and the Evolution of the US Innovation System (2020) (8)
Beyond Embedded Autonomy: Conceptualizing the Work of Developmental States (2016) (8)
22. The State and the Economy (2010) (7)
Green Giant (2011) (7)
Senior Status: An Active Senior Judge Corrects Some Common Misunderstandings (2007) (6)
Bad Data Drive out Good: The Decline of Personal Savings Reexamined (1990) (6)
Redefining Socialism : Karl Polanyi and the Democratization of Finance * (2015) (5)
A Neo-Polanyian Theory of Economic Crises (2015) (5)
The Origins of International Economic Disorder: A Study of United States Monetary Policy from World War II to the Present (1980) (5)
Reinventing social democracy for the 21st century (2011) (5)
Contradictions of Capitalism as a World System (1975) (4)
The Land of Too Much: American Abundance and the Paradox of Poverty. By Monica Prasad. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012. Pp. xiv+327. $39.95. (2014) (4)
Introduction to block and Hirschhorn articles (1981) (4)
The Contradictory Logics of Financialization (2016) (4)
Poverty and Piety (2006) (4)
The future of economics, new circuits for capital, and re-envisioning the relation of state and market (2010) (4)
The Global Economy in the Bush Era (2003) (3)
Think tanks, free market academics, and the triumph of the right (2013) (2)
The Development of the Modern State: A Sociological Introduction.Gianfranco Poggi (1981) (2)
A CORPORATION WITH A CONSCIENCE (2006) (2)
Can the U.S. sustain its global position? Dynamism and stagnation in the U.S. institutional model (2014) (2)
Against Polanyian orthodoxy: a reply to Hannes Lacher (2021) (2)
ACID DRAINAGE TECHNOLOGY INITIATIVE: CONTINUING PROGRESS IN COAL RELATED TOPICS (2004) (2)
Polanyi’s democratic socialist vision (2020) (2)
The Ruling Class Does Not Rule (2019) (1)
U.s. Management and productivity. (1987) (1)
Introduction To “Contradictions of Capitalism as a World System” (1999) (1)
6. From Poverty to Perversity: Ideational Embeddedness and Market Fundamentalism over Two Centuries of Welfare Debate (2014) (1)
3. The End of American Exceptionalism: The Social Question in the United States (2019) (1)
2. Beyond the Economistic Fallacy (2014) (1)
PERSISTENT PROBLEMS IN THE POLANYIAN CRITIQUE OF THE MARKET (2020) (1)
Two Hopes, One Faith, and the Future of American Politics (2008) (1)
A Discussion of Lawrence R. Jacobs and Desmond King's Fed Power: How Finance Wins (2017) (1)
Economics and World Order: From the 1970's to the 1990's.@@@Fictive Capital and Fictive Profit: The Welfare-Military State, A Political Economy Based on Economic Fictions. (1976) (1)
The End of Social Inequality?: Class, Status and Power under State Socialism. (1983) (1)
RETROFITTING STEAM TURBINES WITH MODERN CONTROL PLATFORMS (2003) (1)
There was no Baby in this Bathwater: A Reply to the Critics (2012) (1)
Chapter 12. Rethinking Capitalism (2008) (1)
The End of American Exceptionalism: The Social Question in the United States (2019) (1)
Bringing the State Back to Its Proper Place@@@State Theory: Putting the Capitalist State in its Place.@@@Changes in the State: Causes and Consequences. (1991) (1)
How Inequality Distorts Economics (2021) (1)
4. The Illusion That Greed Is Good (2019) (0)
The Current State of Marxist State Theory@@@The State and Political Theory. (1985) (0)
1. The Capitalist Illusion (2019) (0)
Introduction (1997) (0)
Languishing In Perpetual Obscurity? A Forum on Economic Sociology with Fred Block, Gerald Davis, Akos Rona-Tas, and Marion Fourcade (2012) (0)
https://inctpped.ie.ufrj.br/desenvolvimentoemdebate/pdf/dd_v_6_n_2_Fred_Block.pdf (2018) (0)
Introduction (2003) (0)
The Politics of Class War from Above (1998) (0)
Network Failure and the Evolution of the US Innovation System (2020) (0)
New Right, Old Wrongs (1987) (0)
Did Household Saving Really Decline in the Reagan Years? (1995) (0)
1. The Postindustrial Context (2019) (0)
Keynes Lost and Found (2010) (0)
Technology and productivity: a critique of aggregate indicators (2022) (0)
Clarification, qualification, and the problem of authoritarianism (2019) (0)
Volume Information (1979) (0)
Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 2003 (2004) (0)
Special Section: Real Utopias (2014) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue * (2019) (0)
Letter to Hillary Clinton: Let’s Talk About Poverty (2013) (0)
What makes a developmental network state durable? (2021) (0)
4. Turning the Tables: Polanyi’s Critique of Free Market Utopianism (2014) (0)
The Immanent Utopia: From Marxism on the State to the State of Marxism.Axel van den Berg (1990) (0)
8. The Reality of Society (2014) (0)
Networks and Public Policies in the Global South: The Chilean Case and the Future of the Developmental Network State (2012) (0)
Tales of a Shirtmaker: A Jewish Upbringing in North Carolina (2005) (0)
Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 2002 (2003) (0)
7. The Enduring Strength of Free Market Conservatism in the United States (2014) (0)
From Financial Reform to Financial Democratization (2016) (0)
Reforming the U.S. Labor Market Through a Guaranteed Income Approach (1998) (0)
Revue Interventions économiques, 38 | 2008 (2019) (0)
Secular stagnation and creative destruction (2018) (0)
Contradictions of Capitalism as a World System (1999) (0)
New Thinking About Capitalism (1999) (0)
Towards a new Understanding of Economic Modernity (2020) (0)
Polanyian Themes: From Budapest to the Caribbean (2014) (0)
Eurocommunism and the Stalemate of European Capitalism (1980) (0)
Social Theory and Comparative History Emeriti Faculty Social Theory and Comparative History Sociology the Major Programs Preparatory Subject Matter ..............28-30 Sociology 1; Choose One Course From: 2 or 3; Courses in Sociology (soc) Lower Division (0)
Why is the U.S. Fighting in Iraq? (2007) (0)
Volume Information (1995) (0)
The Urgency of Global Economic Reform (2019) (0)
FORTHCOMING IN THE INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION REVIEW DO NOT CITE WITHOUT AUTHOR’S PERMISSION Racialized Incorporation: The Effects of Race and Generational-Status on Self-Employment Propensities and Industry-Sector Prestige in the United States (2013) (0)
Think tanks, free market academics, and the triumph of the right (2013) (0)
6. The Illusion of Global Order Organized by Capitalism (2019) (0)
Innovation and the Contested Transformation of the US Political Economy (2015) (0)
7. Beyond Illusions (2019) (0)
Freedom from the Market: America’s Fight to Liberate Itself from the Grip of the Invisible Hand (2022) (0)
7. Alternatives: Qualitative Growth (2019) (0)
Empire and Domestic Reform (1989) (0)
Swedberg, R.:Principles of Economic Sociology. (2004) (0)
State Roles in Economy (2004) (0)
Title: The Peddlers’ Aristocracy: Social Closure, Path-Dependence, and Street Vendors in São Paulo Author: (2018) (0)
Introduction to the Special Issue* (2020) (0)
Children's Product Certificate - TOYS (2015) (0)
2. Economic Sociology (2019) (0)
Book Review: Main Currents in Modern American History (1978) (0)
Economic Sociology: Progress and Regression@@@Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism. (1987) (0)
3. The Illusion That Democracy Threatens the Economy (2019) (0)
Acknowledgment of external reviewers for 2000 (2001) (0)
Right-Wing Studies: A Roundtable on the State of the Field (2023) (0)
11. Modernity, Democracy, and the Problem of Authority (1989) (0)
Reinventing the Left in the Global South: The Politics of the Possible. By Richard Sandbrook. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 309p. $94.99 cloth, $34.99 paper. (2016) (0)
Nine Theses on Twenty-First-Century Socialism* (2020) (0)
Reply To “Before Radical Rejection” (1978) (0)
1. Karl Polanyi and the Power of Ideas (2014) (0)
The Term 'Capitalism' Has Lost Its Radical Edge (2014) (0)
2. Elaborating an Alternative (2019) (0)
Revisiting the Hidden Developmental State (2023) (0)
Is the stimulus working for you? (2009) (0)
Policy History: State and Economy (2001) (0)
The Illusion of an Unchanging System (2018) (0)
Book Reviews (1998) (0)

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