by developing a sociological theory of market institutions. Addressing the unruly dynamism that capitalism brings with it …Market societies have created more wealth, and more opportunities for more people, than any other system of social …, leading sociologist Neil Fligstein argues that the basic drift of any one market and its actors, even allowing for competition …

not market institutions), and affective and normative behavior (but not rational behavior) …

Critics of the market worry that as it expands the communal sphere declines. They also worry that the market encourages … vice and has little or no scope for virtue. As I argue, however, the critics fail to realize that the market is a social …

The challenge to Marxian theory presented by the current collapse of communist economies centers on the role of markets … his materialist approach to history. Marx's attack on markets flunked the test of theory one hundred years before it …