The Market

ISBN: 978-0-7456-3222-3

Hardcover

196 pages

September 2005, Polity

Other Available Formats: Paperback

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Concise introduction to the sociology of the market for upper-level undergraduates.
Covers relevant debates on market forms, social theories and critiques of markets, market failure, aspects of market behaviour, market ideologies, and the ‘marketisation’ of other sectors of social and public life.
Offers an even-handed treatment of this much-debated topic.
Concepts and arguments are clearly explained, and theoretical treatments are offset by examples from specific market contexts.