In economics, the market has been understood to steer behavior towards a competitive equilibrium in which all economic actors behave optimally, and in which welfare of society is maximized. Yet many economists have also seen shortcomings to this ideal picture of the market in the form of limited...

Historisch-soziale Grundlagen des Wirtschaftens und des Wirtschaftsdenkens von einer der bedeutendsten Wirtschaftssoziologinnen schlechthin. Das Buch wendet sich dennoch als Lehrbuch vorwiegend an Studenten.