Market Fashioning

Patrik Aspers1, Petter Bengtsson2, Alexander Dobeson3

  • 1Seminar for Sociology, University of St. Gallen, SfS-HSG Müller-Friedberg-Strasse 6/8, 9000 St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Theory and Society
|July 7, 2020
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