Where do prices come from? Sociological approaches to price formation

Socio-Economic Review

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 757-786

  Beckert, Jens ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIETIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Culture; Economic sociology; Embeddedness; Institutions; Markets; Networks; Preferences; Prices; Social norms

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053200924     PISSN: 14751461     EISSN: 1475147X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ser/mwr012     Document Type: Article

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