LEADER 02885 am 22003733u 450 001 9910377436503321 005 20201023134910.0 010 $a952-369-001-9 024 7 $a10.33134/HUP-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000010351524 035 $a(OAPEN)1007792 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000010351524 100 $a20200310d|||| uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $auuuuu---auuuu 200 10$aDeciphering Markets and Money: A Sociological Analysis of Economic Institutions 210 $aHelsinki$cHelsinki University Press$d2020 215 $a1 online resource (203) 311 $a952-369-000-0 330 $a"During the last two decades, economic sociology has experienced a remarkable revival and has become one of the most innovative fields of sociological research. Shifts in economic policy worldwide have led to the increasing interest in the sociological analysis of economic phenomena and institutions by challenging traditional research questions and demonstrating the limits and problems inherent in standard economic thinking and reasoning. Jukka Gronow?s book Deciphering Markets and Money solves the problem of the specific social conditions of an economic order based on money and the equal exchange of commodities. Gronow scrutinizes the relation of sociology to neoclassical economics and reflects on how sociology can contribute to the analyses of the major economic institutions. The question of the comparability and commensuration of economic objects runs through the chapters of the book. The author shows that due to the multidimensionality and principal quality uncertainty of products, markets would collapse without market devices that are either procedural, consisting of technical standards and measuring instruments, or aesthetic, relying on the judgements of taste, or both. In his book, Gronow demonstrates that in this respect, financial markets share the same problem as the markets of, wines, movies, or PCs and mobile phones, and hence offer a highly actual case to study their social constitution in the process of coming into being. Jukka Gronow is professor emeritus of sociology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and docent at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He has published on sociology of consumption, history of sociology and social theory." 517 $aDeciphering Markets and Money 606 $aSociology$2bicssc 606 $aEconomic theory & philosophy$2bicssc 606 $aPolitical economy$2bicssc 606 $aEconomic systems & structures$2bicssc 615 7$aSociology 615 7$aEconomic theory & philosophy 615 7$aPolitical economy 615 7$aEconomic systems & structures 700 $aGronow$b Jukka$4aut$0863627 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910377436503321 996 $aDeciphering Markets and Money: A Sociological Analysis of Economic Institutions$92029394 997 $aUNINA