pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The market and the state -- pt. 3. Markets, merchants and middlemen -- pt. 4. Markets and urban manufacture -- pt. 5. Market production and women's work -- pt. 6. Market structures and social institutions : commerce and customary context.

Knowledge has become a crucial factor of production in the developed economies and, as humans are the carriers and utilisers of knowledge, skilled human resource is gaining similarly large relevance. These advancements are elements of the substantial changes that characterise the fourth...