This book advances neo-institutional work that has traditionally portrayed protective public policies as easily enforced-exogenous constraints followed by businesses. We propose that businesses show increasing resistance as the protective policy process moves from initiation to selection and...

This volume addresses the fraught relationship between market and society in times of social and economic crisis, exploring how they interact in key social, cultural, and political arenas on a global scale. The contributors examine the neoliberal market in anthropological and ethnographic terms...

Estonia is widely regarded as a paramount example for a successful transformation of a socialist economic system to a functioning market economy. Against the backdrop of this positive image which contrasts strongly with the crisis scenarios in Southern Europe the remaining problems of Estonia...