Relational work in market economies: Introduction

Politics and Society

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 135-144

  Block, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Market economies; Relational work

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860741442     PISSN: 00323292     EISSN: 15527514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0032329212441576     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Zelizer also frames her contribution as an alternative to nothing-but formulations that insist that behavior in different spheres can be explained by a unitary principle such as rational actors pursuing their self-interest.
2. Viviana Zelizer, The Purchase of Intimacy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005), 56.
3. Greta Krippner, "The Elusive Market: Embeddedness and the Paradigm of Economic Sociology," Theory and Society 30, no. 6 (2001): 775-810.
4. Without using the term "discovery," both Whitford and Biscotti et al. examine the relational work that facilitates innovations.
5. Josh Whitford and Andrew Schrank, "The Paradox of the Weak State Revisited: Industrial Policy, Network Governance, and Political Decentralization," in Fred Block and Matthew R. Keller, eds., State of Innovation: The U.S. Government's Role in Technology Development (Boulder, Colorado: Paradigm Publishers, 2011) 261-281;
6. Andrew Schrank and Josh Whitford, "The Anatomy of Network Failure," Sociological Theory 29, no. 3 (September 2011): 151-177.
7. Even then, however, a literature on the gap between formal and informal aspects of organizational hierarchies stressed the importance of relationships.
8. Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Men and Women of the Corporation (New York: Basic Books, 1977).
9. Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Boston: Basic Books, 2001 [1944]).
10. Fred Block, "Contesting Markets All the Way Down," Journal of Australian Political Economy, 68 (Summer 2011/2012): 27-40.
11. And even this maximizer must make due with limited calculating capacity and is subject to the limits on rational action that have been documented by behavioral economists.
12. Other conference participants included Nicole Biggart, Matthew Keller, Magali Sarfatti Larson, Stephanie Mudge, Marian Negoita, Leslie Salzinger, Michael Peter Smith, Vicky Smith, Andrew Schrank, and Valery Yakubovich.