Nanotechnologies are considered as emerging technologies. However, there are already products in the market that claim to incorporate them. This has contributed to the growing interest in the regulation of this field. In this paper, we first introduce the question of regulation in...

[fre] Ce papier développe une analyse de l'organisation des processus d'échange. En limitant l'analyse à des caractéristiques institutionnelles spécifiquement économiques, l'intention est à la fois d'approfondir la sociologie économique des marchés, et de situer l'organisation...

This paper combines recent advances which appreciate the ontological intricacies of scale; with the (re)turn of institutional perspectives on social and economic life and its governance. The authors use these perspectives to understand better questions of contingency, difference, and indeed...