Market Relations and the Competitive ProcessJ. Stanley Metcalfe, Alan Warde There has been increasing interest and debate in recent years on the nature of economic processes in general and the related ideas of the market, in particular the competitive process. This study 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. It explores this interface in a number of ways, looking at the competitive process and market relations from a number of different perspectives. A wide range of contributors are included, most of whom are leading writers and thinkers in the field. |
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problems of polysemy | 41 |
Cognition and markets Brian J Loasby | 58 |
Competition as instituted economic process Mark Harvey | 73 |
Markets materiality and the new economy Don Slater | 95 |
constituting | 114 |
Regulatory issues and industrial policy in football | 130 |
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