Markets, Competition, and the Economy as a Social System

This book is an examination of markets, competition, and market governance from a critical, heterodox perspective.

Editor's Introduction Frederic S. Lee Economy as a Social System: Niklas Luhmann's Contribution and its Significance for Economics Ivan Boldyrev Social Network Analysis and the Sociology of Economics: Filling a Blind Spot with the Idea of Social Embeddedness Dieter Boegenhold Scmoller’s Method as a Critique and Alternative to Marginalist Economics: A Comment to Louzek Carlo D'Ippoliti The Economic Deterioration of the Family: Historical Contingencies Preceding the Great Depression Michael Gillespie The Market Concept: A Characterization from Institutional and Post Keynesian Economics Eduardo Fernandez-Huerga Understanding the Socio-Economics Impact of Actually Existing Markets: An Analytical Framework for Empirical Research Lynn Chester Three Makes of Competition in the Marketplace William Redmond Saving Private Business Enterprises: A Heterodox Microeconomic Approach to Market Governance and Market Regulation Tae-Hee Jo Consumer Market Cycles Riders, Industries and Environments in France and the United States, 1865-1914 Thomas C. Burr The End of the Consensus in Macroeconomic Theory? A Methodological Inquiry John McCombie and Maureen Pike