Jukka Gronow's book Deciphering Markets and Money solves the problem of the specific social conditions of an economic order based on money and the equal exchange of commodities. Gronow scrutinizes the relation of sociology to neoclassical economics and reflects on how sociology can contribute to...

The article is a comment on Johan Galtung's 'On the Meaning of Nonviolence' and 'Vio lence, Peace and Peace Research', in which Galtung has tried to clarify and extend the con cept of violence. The present paper claims that there are various omissions and confusions behind Galtung's analysis.The...