Gronow, Jukka
Deciphering Markets and Money: A Sociological Analysis of Economic Institutions
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.
Keywords: money form, judgement of taset, financial markets: merket devices, social construction of markets
- Author(s)
- Gronow, Jukka
- Publisher
- Helsinki University Press
- Publication year
- 2020
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 203 pages
- Category
- Society
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9789523690011
- Printed ISBN
- 9789523690004