Contemporary Capitalism: The Variety and Unequal Performance of Really Existing Markets: Farewell to Doctor Pangloss?
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...The apparently objective organizational imperatives of production and trade in today s globalizing markets are shaped by particular constellations of social and political relations (see Boyer, 1997; Randles, 2003)....
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...On the other hand, a review of the literature on the bases of institutional economic theories (Hollingsworth/Boyer 1997) shows that it is no longer possible to see the market as the sole process of coordination, no more than it is to view the market and the state as being diametrically opposed to…...
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...Both are activated but in varying order, depending on the context (Hollingsworth/Boyer 1997: 15–18)....
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...…real economies feature asymmetrical and imperfect information, strategic behaviours usually on the part of large actors, and significant public goods and externalities that can be either positive (education, innovation, healthcare) or negative (pollution, congestion, systemic risks) (Boyer 1997)....
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