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Róna-Tas Ákos

Róna-Tas Ákos
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Associated Researcher


University of California, San Diego
Dept of Sociology


Fields of Specialization


Economic Sociology, Uncertainty and Risk, Rational Choice Theory, Comparative Social Stratification, Survey Research, Methodology
Associate Professor of Sociology
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr.
La Jolla, CA
92093-0533
phone: 858-534-4699
e-mail: aronatas@ucsd.edu

See Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications


The Invisible Science of the Invisible Hand: The Public Presence of Economic Sociology in the USA (with Nadav Gabay) Socio-Economic Review, 2007, V5(N2) pp. 334-355

Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment in Transition Economies (with Matild Sagi), Research in the Sociology of Work, 2005, V105.

Uncertainty, Risk and Trust: Russian and American Credit Card Markets Compared (With Alya Guseva.) American Sociological Review, 2001, V66(N5) pp. 623-646.
Reprinted in New Developments in Economic Sociology, ed. by Richard Swedberg, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar 2005.

Great Surprise of the Small Transformation: Demise of Communism and Rise of the Private Sector in Hungary. Ann Arbor, Mi.: The University of Michigan Press, 1997

Education


1990 Ph.D. Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
Thesis title: The Second Economy in Hungary: The Social Origins of the End of State Socialism

1986 M.A. in Sociology, Loránd Eötvös University, Budapest
Writing: Unité Mét@risk, A. Róna-Tas
Creation date: 05 August 2008
Update: 05 August 2009