Product Description
With the collapse of the planned economies of Eastern Europe, the market is extending its reach and at the same time claiming its universal applicability.
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Expert contributors explore how concrete markets are built up and stabilized. They show how entities--material or non-material, human or non-human--are transformed into commodities, how economic behaviors are shaped by institutional arrangements, and whether it is possible to measure the role of the social sciences, particularly economics, in performing markets and in enforcing rational behavior.