Markets are not given, transcendent and commanding. Markets are socially constructed, a function of interaction among both institutions normally seen as within the market and institutions of social control. The conventional theories of the firm, by Gardiner C. Means, Ronald Coase and others, do not go far enough when they are used as theories of the market. Markets are a function of the activities of firms to establish market structures of their own liking and of the impact of a wide variety of government regulatory activities. Even law not deemed regulatory has impact on the existence, domain, character and structure of markets; moreover law is profoundly influenced by nominally private-sector activities brought to bear on and through gove...
The article presents a comment on Charles W. Smith's article "Markets as Definitional Practices." It...
Prominent economic sociologist Richard Swedberg has argued that economists have failed to develop a ...
This paper deals with the claim of sociologists that the social structure of markets mat-ters for th...
While markets are all around us, not all markets are the same. Markets come in a variety of colors b...
The Jean-Daniel Reynaud's theory of social regulation is applied to the market as a meeting-place fo...
The category of market has been highly paradoxical in economics. It is at the core of the analytical...
Economic theorists have seldom discussed the social structures behind markets, even though market tr...
# The Author(s) 2009. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract In thi...
The Market can be understood as a self-organizing system that is constantly evolving. Like all socia...
The economists territory : market and market society Through developments in the economie of organ...
International audienceDifferent types of markets exist throughout the world but how are they created...
In this article I develop a proposal for the theoretical vantage point of the sociology of markets, ...
Coase’s work emphasized the economic importance of very small markets and made a new, more marginali...
This paper proposes a framework to study markets as institutional constructions. It identifies three...
This book provides methods of understanding the huge variety of markets and market organisation in c...
The article presents a comment on Charles W. Smith's article "Markets as Definitional Practices." It...
Prominent economic sociologist Richard Swedberg has argued that economists have failed to develop a ...
This paper deals with the claim of sociologists that the social structure of markets mat-ters for th...
While markets are all around us, not all markets are the same. Markets come in a variety of colors b...
The Jean-Daniel Reynaud's theory of social regulation is applied to the market as a meeting-place fo...
The category of market has been highly paradoxical in economics. It is at the core of the analytical...
Economic theorists have seldom discussed the social structures behind markets, even though market tr...
# The Author(s) 2009. This article is published with open access at Springerlink.com Abstract In thi...
The Market can be understood as a self-organizing system that is constantly evolving. Like all socia...
The economists territory : market and market society Through developments in the economie of organ...
International audienceDifferent types of markets exist throughout the world but how are they created...
In this article I develop a proposal for the theoretical vantage point of the sociology of markets, ...
Coase’s work emphasized the economic importance of very small markets and made a new, more marginali...
This paper proposes a framework to study markets as institutional constructions. It identifies three...
This book provides methods of understanding the huge variety of markets and market organisation in c...
The article presents a comment on Charles W. Smith's article "Markets as Definitional Practices." It...
Prominent economic sociologist Richard Swedberg has argued that economists have failed to develop a ...
This paper deals with the claim of sociologists that the social structure of markets mat-ters for th...