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Electronic Journal "Economic Sociology" published by Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology has been included into the Russian Science Citation Index launched on the Web of Science platform! 

Opec.ru  announced the list of the most impressive and fruiful  HSE studies in social sciences in year 2015.  "The Russian-speaking Freelance Marketplace in 2009 to 2014" by Denis Strebkov, Andrey Shevchuk, Marina Spirina and "Collusion and corruption: an experimental study of Russian police" by Alexis Belianin and Leonid Kosals have met the list.

77th issue of Journal of Economic Sociology has been published. In this issue:

- An Interview with Sophie Dubuisson-Quellier "Market Mechanism and Consumer Choice"

-New text by Zabaev I. V., Zueva A. V., Koloshenko Y. A. "Humility and The Gift: The Elective Affinity of Institutions and Ethics in Orthodox Parishes"

-Book Review by Gudova E. A. “All Power to the Imagination!”: A Leftist Critique of Bureaucratic Violence,Technologies and Rationality" On: Graeber D. 2015. The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity,and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy. New York: Melville House

- and other materials.

Journal of Economic Sociology’s website: http://ecsoc.hse.ru/en/   

On November 26, Thomas Piketty, a famous French economist, delivered a lecture at HSE and presented the Russian edition of his best-selling book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. The event was organized by HSE Laboratory for Studies in Economic Sociology and Moscow Centre for Franco-Russian Research (Centre d’études franco-russe de Moscou - CEFR) with the support of French Embassy in Russia and French Institute (Institut Français).

The 76th issue of Journal of Economic Sociology (vol. 16, no 4, 2015) has been published. In this issue you can find: 
- interview with Dr. Prof. Katharina Bluhm. Economic Actors and Liberal Dependent Capitalism;
- new text of Ivan Zabaev, The Economic Ethics of Contemporary Russian Orthodox Christianity: A Weberian Perspective;
- new Russian-language translation of the first chapter of Dani Rodrik’s book Economics Rules: The Rights and Wrongs of the Dismal Science;
- new paper of Alexander Kondakov, The Uncomfortable Law: Why the Civil Code of Russia is a Constraint for International Business;
- and other texts.

Journal of Economic Sociology’s website: http://ecsoc.hse.ru/en/ 

International companies engage in social responsibility in order to to improve their reputation, be more competitive, and to gain political benefits and some degree of control over society. In Russia, however, businesses convert social investment into informal privileges granted to them by government, according to a paper by Olga Kuzina, LSES Senior Researcher, Professor of the HSE Department of Economic Sociology, and Marina Chernysheva, postgraduate student at the same department. In details....

Supplements (in English)
 
Conversation with Mark Mizruchi:“There is Very Little Organizational Theory Left in Sociology Departments”(interviewed by Igor Chirikov)P. 110–118  
 
Jagdish N. Sheth, Atul Parvatiyar, Mona Sinha. he Conceptual Foundations of Relationship Marketing: Review and Synthesis
P. 119–149  
 
Vadim Radaev. Bringing Marketing Back to Markets Book review: Araujo L., Finch J., Kjellberg H. (eds) (2010) Reconnecting Marketing to Markets, Oxford: Oxford University Press
P. 150–154