Market societies have created more wealth, and more opportunities for more people, than any other system of social organization in history. Yet we still have a rudimentary understanding of how markets themselves are social constructions that require extensive institutional support. This groundbreaking work seeks to fill this gap, to make sense of modern capitalism by developing a sociological theory of market institutions. 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 step beyond recent, largely empirical studies that oppose the neoclassical model of perfect competition but provide sparse theory toward a coherent economic sociology. Fligstein offers this theory. With it he interprets not just globalization and the information economy, but developments more specific to American capitalism in the past two decades—among them, the 1980s merger movement. He makes new inroads into the ”theory of fields,” which links the formation of markets and firms to the problems of stability. His political-cultural approach explains why governments remain crucial to markets and why so many national variations of capitalism endure. States help make stable markets possible by, for example, establishing the rule of law and adjudicating the class struggle. State-building and market-building go hand in hand.
Fligstein shows that market actors depend mightily upon governments and the members of society for the social conditions that produce wealth. He demonstrates that systems favoring more social justice and redistribution can yield stable markets and economic growth as readily as less egalitarian systems. This book will surely join the classics on capitalism. Economists, sociologists, policymakers, and all those interested in what makes markets function as they do will read it for many years to come.
0 有用 panpan 2011-04-30 02:33:49
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1 有用 fka EyeCU 2014-11-02 18:08:17
我把宝贵的冬令时一小时都花在读文献上了......
0 有用 猫团团 2010-06-26 11:25:58
applies Bourdieu's field typology to explain the market structure. A better illustration than Fligstein 1996 AJS.
0 有用 兀鲁厄 2021-10-21 05:35:37
Chapter 2.3.4 笔触非常干涩的理论建构著作,也因此而清晰明确。市场需要一定的基础设施,他列了四个,产权啥的。后面讨论了很多市场场域内资本、工人、国家间的结盟关系及其后果。貌似市场的稳定是公司追求的目标,也因此在统治公司和小公司间产生了一些角力。
0 有用 月亮脸 2023-04-05 00:59:10 美国
The architecture of markets (as fields). 第3章的几张图表总结得挺好,感觉可以作为分析维度查漏补缺用。
0 有用 月亮脸 2023-04-05 00:59:10 美国
The architecture of markets (as fields). 第3章的几张图表总结得挺好,感觉可以作为分析维度查漏补缺用。
0 有用 兀鲁厄 2021-10-21 05:35:37
Chapter 2.3.4 笔触非常干涩的理论建构著作,也因此而清晰明确。市场需要一定的基础设施,他列了四个,产权啥的。后面讨论了很多市场场域内资本、工人、国家间的结盟关系及其后果。貌似市场的稳定是公司追求的目标,也因此在统治公司和小公司间产生了一些角力。
0 有用 廖芜 2020-12-24 12:05:50
统一看market as politics基本可以了解本书所讲。sociology of market经典之一。出版的较早,现在看很多论点在2008后颇站不住脚了。
1 有用 fka EyeCU 2014-11-02 18:08:17
我把宝贵的冬令时一小时都花在读文献上了......
0 有用 潜水的大叔 2013-07-20 12:54:43
没有想象中那么“醍醐灌顶”,作者比较话唠,不少东西换个行当似乎不言自明。理论上看他那篇“Markets as politics”的论文基本就够了