Postscript: fields and markets: sociological and historical perspectives

Abstract

"This postscript discusses the contributions to the special issue of HSR in the light of recent interdisciplinary studies an markets and market societies. It picks out the problem of legitimacy, the importance of events in the formation of markets and the configuration of fields, the role of disorder in the evolution of markets and the relation of markets and fields as the major threads running through the issue and identifies the investigation of the development of modern capitalism as a pressing task for future collaborative research by sociologists, historians, and political scientists." (author's abstract