BraudelFernand. The Wheels of Commerce (Fontana Press, 1979). A great historian provides a fascinating account of the changing role of markets over time.
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PolanyiKarlArensbergConradPearsonHarry, eds. Trade and Markets in the Early Empires: Economies in History and Theory (Henry Regnery Company, 1957). This important volume contains many useful concepts for analyzing markets.
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SwedbergRichard. “The Economic Sociology of Capitalism: An Introduction and Agenda.” In The Economic Sociology of Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 2005). An attempt to work out a sociological theory of the market as an engine of economic growth.
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SwedbergRichard. “Markets as Social Structures.” In The Handbook of Economic Sociology, ed. SmelserNeilSwedbergRichard (Russell Sage Foundation, 1994). Summarizes how economists and sociologists have looked at the market.
