Overview

From illegal drugs, stolen artwork, and forged trademarks, to fraud in financial markets - the phenomenon of illegality in market exchanges is pervasive. Illegal markets have great economic significance, have relevant social and political consequences, and shape economic and political structures. Despite the importance of illegality in the economy, the field of economic sociology unquestioningly accepts the premise that the institutional structures and exchanges taking place in markets are law-abiding in nature. This volume makes a contribution to changing this. Questions that stand at the centre of the chapters are: What are the interfaces between legal and illegal markets? How do demand and supply in illegal markets interact? What role do criminal organizations play in illegal markets? What is the relationship between illegality and governments? Is illegality a phenomenon central to capitalism?Anchored in economic sociology, this book contributes to the analysis and understanding of market exchanges in conditions of illegality from a perspective that focuses on the social organization of markets. Offering both, theoretical reflections and case studies, the chapters assembled in the volume address the consequences of the illegal production, distribution, and consumption of products for the architecture of markets. It also focuses on the underlying causes and the political and social concerns stemming from the infringement of the law.

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Author:   Jens Beckert (Professor of Sociology and Director, Professor of Sociology and Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies) ,  Matias Dewey (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.654kg
ISBN:  

9780198794974

ISBN 10:   0198794975
Pages:   330
Publication Date:   03 August 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"1: Jens Beckert and Matías Dewey: The Social Organization of Illegal Markets Part I: Conceptualizing Illegal Markets 2: Renate Mayntz: Illegal Markets: Boundaries and Interfaces between Legality and Illegality Part II: Secrecy and Illegal Markets: 3: Philippe Steiner: Secrecy and Frontiers in Illegal Organ Transplantation 4: Simon Mackenzie and Donna Yates: What Is Grey About the ""Grey Market"" in Antiquities? 5: Meltem Odabaş, Thomas Holt, and Ronald Breiger: Governance in Online Stolen Data Markets 6: Ronen Palan: Futurity, Offshore, and the International Political Economy of Crime PArt III: The State in Informal Market Places 7: Matías Dewey: State-Sponsored Protection Rackets: Regulating the Market for Counterfeit Clothing in Argentina 8: Kirsten Endres: Shoddy, Fake, or Harmful: Smuggled Goods and Entangled Illegalities in a Vietnamese Border Market PArt IV: Shifting Definitions of Illegality 9: Cyrus Dioun: Making the Medical Marijuana Market 10: Annette Hübschle: Contested Illegality: Processing the Trade Prohibition of Rhino Horn 11: Nina Enwicht: ""We Are the Genuine People"": Legality and Legitimacy in the Sierra Leonean Diamond Market 12: Vadim Radaev: A Crooked Mirror: The Evolution of Illegal Alcohol Markets in Russia since the Late Socialist Period Part V: Illegal Practices in Legal Markets 13: Letizia Paoli and Victoria Greenfield: The Supply of Doping Products and the Relevance of Market-Based Perspectives: Implications of Recent Research in Italy 14: Boris Samuel: Illegal Prices: The Social Contestation of High Living Costs in Guadeloupe and Mauritania 15: Robert Tillman: The Price is Not Right: Financialization and Financial Crime"

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This creative and inspiring book provides, as the editor's note, the start of a much-needed conversation on illegal markets (p. 27). Also, in an era when the U.S. Supreme Court has rendered legal some transactions that were previously deemed illegal (e.g., political spending by corporations) and might be on the verge of increasingly doing so, it has never been more urgent to better unpack and comprehend (il)legality. * Michel Anteby, Administrative Science Quarterly *

"This creative and inspiring book provides, as the editor's note, ""the start"" of a much-needed conversation on illegal markets (p. 27). Also, in an era when the U.S. Supreme Court has rendered legal some transactions that were previously deemed illegal (e.g., political spending by corporations) and might be on the verge of increasingly doing so, it has never been more urgent to better unpack and comprehend (il)legality. * Michel Anteby, Administrative Science Quarterly *"

Author Information

Jens Beckert is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University, Harvard University, Cornell University, the European University Institute, and Sciences Po in Paris. He is the author of The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy (OUP), Beyond the Market: the Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency (Princeton University Press 2002) and Inherited Wealth (Princeton University Press 2008). His articles have been published in journals such as Theory & Society, Sociological Theory, Organization Studies, and the European Journal of Sociology. Matías Dewey is a Senior Researcher in the project area on the sociology of illegal markets at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. He studied sociology in Argentina and received his PhD in Germany. As a visiting scholar, he has spent time at the University of Oxford, at the MaxPo in Paris and recently at the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He has received grants from the Alexander von Humboldt and Volkswagen foundations. He has published extensively on social theory, economic sociology, illegal markets and qualitative research.

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