This volume shows how the major personal and historical events of Karl Polanyi's life transformed him from a bourgeois radical into a Christian socialist but also informed his ambivalent stance on social democracy, communism, the New Deal and the shifting intellectual scene of p…
A guided tour of markets with examples ranging from a camel trading fair in India to the $20 million per day Aalsmeer flower market to the global trade in AIDS drugs. Shows how these markets combine to form the global economy and why markets are neither magical nor immoral, but …
A guided tour of markets with examples ranging from a camel trading fair in India to the $20 million per day Aalsmeer flower market to the global trade in AIDS drugs. Shows how these markets combine to form the global economy and why markets are neither magical nor immoral, but …
"Addressing the unruly dynamism that capitalism brings with it, leading sociologist Neil Fligstein argues that the basic drift of any one market and its actors, even allowing for competition, is toward stabilization." "The Architecture of Markets represents a major and timely s…
"Addressing the unruly dynamism that capitalism brings with it, leading sociologist Neil Fligstein argues that the basic drift of any one market and its actors, even allowing for competition, is toward stabilization." "The Architecture of Markets represents a major and timely s…
Le concept de marché ne définit pas seulement un mode de régulation de l'économie. Il a surtout une dimension sociologique et politique. Dans cet ouvrage, Pierre Rosanvallon ne retrace pas seulement l'histoire intellectuelle de cette idée de marché, il éclaire tous les débats co…
The asset management, and more specifically the mutual fund industry, is facing major strategic challenges. Although the market is growing overall, its growth attracts a steady stream of new entrants and new products that jeopardize the position and profitability of (large) incu…