This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular fie

This book examines the rise of welfare markets in Western societies and explores their functioning, regulation and embeddedness by addressing the particular fie

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout t

Market Society provides an original and accessible review of changing conceptions of the market in modern social thought. The book considers markets as social i

This volume represents the beginning of a 'cross pollination' of different social scientific disciplines, bridging the boundaries between national and disciplin