Reflections on the field of socio-economics.

At the same time, workers' collective organizations were greatly weakened in many countries, conglomerate firms were dismantled and the state was expected to reduce its redistributive functions and focus instead on providing a regulatory framework in which markets would do the work of coordinating the economy. While sociologists dealing with the economy during the post-war period did so primarily from an organizational and a (Marxist) political economy perspective, the shift from the state and conglomerate firms to globalized markets opened up new research topics around market operations. Keywords: economic sociology; embeddedness; socio-economics; political economy; theory (up to five); A13 General Economics - Relation of Economics to Social Values; B55 Current Heterodox Approaches - Social Economics; Z1 Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology (up to three) EN economic sociology embeddedness socio-economics political economy theory (up to five) A13 General Economics - Relation of Economics to Social Values B55 Current Heterodox Approaches - Social Economics Z1 Cultural Economics Economic Sociology Economic Anthropology (up to three) 703 720 18 06/09/23 20230401 NES 230401 We are all political economists now Correspondence: marion.fourcade@gmail.com The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) was born in 1989 out of the normative aspiration to anchor economic institutions and processes in communitarian values as opposed to egoistic ones. The coordinated western post-war economies went through a profound crisis from the 1970s onwards and a new policy regime began to take shape that relied on liberalized markets instead of state coordination. [Extracted from the article]