Richard Swedberg is a Swedish sociologist at Cornell University, who has helped to create economic sociology as we know it today.He is currently serving as the chair of the Section for Economic Sociology at the American Sociological Association (2005-2006). 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).

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