Market Relations and the Competitive Process

Alan Warde

ISBN 10: 0719064694 / ISBN 13: 9780719064692

Published by Manchester University Press, GB, 2012

About this Item

There has been increasing interest and debate in recent years on the instituted nature of economic processes in general and the related ideas of the market, in particular the competitive process. This debate lies at the interface between two largely independent disciplines, economics and sociology, and reflects an attempt to bring the two fields of discourse more closely together. This book, newly available in paperback, explores this interface in a number of ways, looking at the competitive process and market relations from a number of different perspectives. It includes a wide range of contributors, most of whom are leading writers and thinkers in the field.The book considers the social role of economic institutions in society and examines the various meanings embedded in the word 'markets', as well as developing arguments on the nature of competition as an instituted economic process, rather than as competition being something that disturbs norms or institutions. It goes on to consider the deeper and more involved connection between markets and cognition, explaining how institutions can ease cognitive difficulties, and the effect of culture on markets and competition is also fully studied.This book will be of vital use to students and academics working in the fields of economics, sociology and business studies. It sketches the agenda for future research about markets and the competitive process.An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Market Relations and the Competitive Process
• Publisher: Manchester University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0719064694
• ISBN 13: 9780719064692
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 322 grams

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Synopsis

There has been increasing interest and debate in recent years on the instituted nature of economic processes in general and the related ideas of the market, in particular the competitive process. This debate lies at the interface between two largely independent disciplines, economics and sociology, and reflects an attempt to bring the two fields of discourse more closely together.

This book, newly available in paperback, explores this interface in a number of ways, looking at the competitive process and market relations from a number of different perspectives. It includes a wide range of contributors, most of whom are leading writers and thinkers in the field.

The book considers the social role of economic institutions in society and examines the various meanings embedded in the word 'markets', as well as developing arguments on the nature of competition as an instituted economic process, rather than as competition being something that disturbs norms or institutions. It goes on to consider the deeper and more involved connection between markets and cognition, explaining how institutions can ease cognitive difficulties, and the effect of culture on markets and competition is also fully studied.

This book will be of vital use to students and academics working in the fields of economics, sociology and business studies. It sketches the agenda for future research about markets and the competitive process.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

About the Authors

Stan Metcalfe is Stanley Jevons Profesor of Political Economy and Cobden Lecturer at the University of Manchester

Alan Warde is Professor of Sociology and Co-director of the Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition at the University of Manchester