markets and firm behavior

Introduction In this paper I want to develop a critique of certain approaches to markets and firm behavior in economics and economic sociology. There are two main targets of the critique. The first concerns some common approaches to markets and the nature of firms in relation to them. Here the diverse range of uses of the term 'market' in contemporary lay and academic discourse are argued to cause confusion. Also problematic in both mainstream and …

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