Market Relations and the Competitive Process

by Edited By Stan Metcalfe and Alan Warde

• ISBN13: 9780719064685
• ISBN10: 0719064686
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-07-18
• Publisher: Manchester University Press

Summary

There has been increasing interest and debate in recent years on the instituted nature of economic processes in general and the related ideas of the market, in particular the competitive process. This debate lies at the interface between two largely independent disciplines, economics and sociology, and reflects an attempt to bring the two fields of discourse more closely together. This book explores this interface in a number of ways, looking at the competitive process and market relations from a number of different perspectives.

Author Biography

Stan Metcalfe is Stanley Jevons Professor of Political Economy and Cobden Lecturer, University of Manchester. Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology, University of Manchester and Co-Director of CRIC.

Table of Contents

List of figures and tables	p. vi
List of contributors	p. vii
Series foreword	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
On the complexities and limits of market organisation	p. 12
Markets, embeddedness and trust: problems of polysemy and idealism	p. 41
Cognition and markets	p. 58
Competition as instituted economic process	p. 73
Markets, materiality and the 'new economy'	p. 95
Between markets, firms and networks: constituting the cultural economy	p. 114
Regulatory issues and industrial policy in football	p. 130
The evolution of the UK software market: scale of demand and the role of competences	p. 144
Open systems and regional innovation: the resurgence of Route 128 in Massachusetts	p. 158
Conclusion	p. 190
Index	p. 209
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