Towards a more pragmatic sociology of markets

Theory and Society

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 533-552

  Overdevest, Christine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Change; Experimentalist governance; FLEGT; Performativity; Routines; Stability

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051808371     PISSN: 03042421     EISSN: 15737853     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11186-011-9149-1     Document Type: Article

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