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Book SynopsisThis book âputs markets in their placeâ, knocking them off the pedestal as the self-organising marvel of capitalist economies. It debates a wide variety of markets, markets for food as well as for capital, for domestic service and for scientific knowledge, markets that succeed and markets that fail. -- .
Table of ContentsList of tables, figures and boxes
1.Introduction: putting markets in their place - Mark Harvey
2.The market, institutions and transactions - Olivier Weinstein and Benjamin Coriat
3.Markets, the organisation of exchange and ‘instituted economic process’: an analytical framework - Mark Harvey and Sally Randles
4.The ordering of change: Polanyi, Schumpeter and the nature of the market mechanism - Mark Harvey and Stan Metcalfe
5.The organisation of exchanges on the venture capital market: empirical and theoretical issues - Dorothée Rivaud-Danset and Emanuelle Dubocage
6.The failure of the French ‘New Market’ and the dynamics of rules - Valérie Revest
7.Markets as systems of rules: the provision of household services in France - Patrick Haddad
8.Making knowledge public and private: markets or public goods? - Andrew McMeekin and Mark Harvey
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