Are Food Markets Special Markets?

Philippe Steiner

Chapter 2 in Geographical Indications and International Agricultural Trade, 2012, pp 34-47 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The aim of this chapter is to examine the notion of a special market which can be linked to Karl Polanyi’s conception of fictitious commodities. The framework employed here is that of economic sociology, a domain I define as studies which seek to inscribe economic facts within social facts, such that on a regular basis concrete research simultaneously takes account of self-interested behaviour and other social relations.

Keywords: Food Security; Eighteenth Century; Interested Behaviour; Food Market; Social Mechanism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137031907_3

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