Markets from Networks : : Socioeconomic Models of Production / / Harrison C. White.
In Markets from Networks, one of America's most influential sociologists unveils a groundbreaking theory of the market economy. Arguing that most economists use overly abstract models of how the economy operates, Harrison White seeks a richer, more empirically based alternative. In doing so, he...
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White, Harrison C., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Markets from Networks : Socioeconomic Models of Production / Harrison C. White. Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018] ©2001 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- PART ONE. Firms Embed into a Market -- CHAPTER 2. Profiles for a Market -- CHAPTER 3. Market Plane -- CHAPTER 4. Quality and Unraveling -- CHAPTER 5. Signaling and PARADOX -- PART TWO: Markets Compete, Too -- CHAPTER 6. Substitutability Extended -- CHAPTER 7. Market Space: CROWDED and EXPLOSIVE Regions -- CHAPTER 8. Estimating Qualities and Parameters -- PART THREE: Markets along Networks -- CHAPTER 9. Facing Upstream or Down -- CHAPTER 10. Embed and Decouple -- CHAPTER 11. Suppressing Market Realities -- PART FOUR: Markets and Firms over Time -- CHAPTER 12. Investing across Markets -- CHAPTER 13. Strategic Moves and Market Evolution -- CHAPTER 14. Contrasting Research Perspectives -- CHAPTER 15. Business Cultures -- CHAPTER 16. Conclusion -- APPENDIX. On Computations -- Glossary of Symbols -- Notes -- References -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In Markets from Networks, one of America's most influential sociologists unveils a groundbreaking theory of the market economy. Arguing that most economists use overly abstract models of how the economy operates, Harrison White seeks a richer, more empirically based alternative. In doing so, he offers a more lucid, generalized treatment of the market models described in his important earlier work in order to show how any given market is situated in a broader exchange economy. White argues that the key to economic action is that producers seek market niches to maximize profit and minimize competition. As they do so, they base production decisions not only on anticipated costs from suppliers and anticipated demand from buyers, but also by looking at their competitors. In fact, White asserts, producers act less in response to actual demand than by anticipating it: they gauge where competitors have found demand and thus determine what they can do that is similar and yet different enough to give themselves a special niche. Building on these and related insights, White creates new mathematical models of how the economy works and how the interaction of its sectors creates mutual protection from the uncertainties of business. These models provide new ways of accounting for profits, prices, market shares, and other vital economic phenomena. He shows, for example, that prices are determined by the coalescing of local variables rather than set in terms of averages as implied by the ''law'' of supply and demand. The model of ''pure'' competition favored by economics is deficient, he concludes, as it fails to account for the varied circumstances of particular industries. Throughout, White draws extensively on case studies of American businesses and on recent mathematical and sociological work on networks. Rivaling standard economic theories with its rich empirical grounding, sheer originality, and scholarly rigor, Markets from Networks will resonate in economics and economic sociology for years to come. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Production (Economic theory) Social aspects. Production (Economic theory). SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691187624?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691187624 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780691187624.jpg |
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White, Harrison C., White, Harrison C., Markets from Networks : Socioeconomic Models of Production / Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- PART ONE. Firms Embed into a Market -- CHAPTER 2. Profiles for a Market -- CHAPTER 3. Market Plane -- CHAPTER 4. Quality and Unraveling -- CHAPTER 5. Signaling and PARADOX -- PART TWO: Markets Compete, Too -- CHAPTER 6. Substitutability Extended -- CHAPTER 7. Market Space: CROWDED and EXPLOSIVE Regions -- CHAPTER 8. Estimating Qualities and Parameters -- PART THREE: Markets along Networks -- CHAPTER 9. Facing Upstream or Down -- CHAPTER 10. Embed and Decouple -- CHAPTER 11. Suppressing Market Realities -- PART FOUR: Markets and Firms over Time -- CHAPTER 12. Investing across Markets -- CHAPTER 13. Strategic Moves and Market Evolution -- CHAPTER 14. Contrasting Research Perspectives -- CHAPTER 15. Business Cultures -- CHAPTER 16. Conclusion -- APPENDIX. On Computations -- Glossary of Symbols -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- PART ONE. Firms Embed into a Market -- CHAPTER 2. Profiles for a Market -- CHAPTER 3. Market Plane -- CHAPTER 4. Quality and Unraveling -- CHAPTER 5. Signaling and PARADOX -- PART TWO: Markets Compete, Too -- CHAPTER 6. Substitutability Extended -- CHAPTER 7. Market Space: CROWDED and EXPLOSIVE Regions -- CHAPTER 8. Estimating Qualities and Parameters -- PART THREE: Markets along Networks -- CHAPTER 9. Facing Upstream or Down -- CHAPTER 10. Embed and Decouple -- CHAPTER 11. Suppressing Market Realities -- PART FOUR: Markets and Firms over Time -- CHAPTER 12. Investing across Markets -- CHAPTER 13. Strategic Moves and Market Evolution -- CHAPTER 14. Contrasting Research Perspectives -- CHAPTER 15. Business Cultures -- CHAPTER 16. Conclusion -- APPENDIX. On Computations -- Glossary of Symbols -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Introduction -- PART ONE. Firms Embed into a Market -- CHAPTER 2. Profiles for a Market -- CHAPTER 3. Market Plane -- CHAPTER 4. Quality and Unraveling -- CHAPTER 5. Signaling and PARADOX -- PART TWO: Markets Compete, Too -- CHAPTER 6. Substitutability Extended -- CHAPTER 7. Market Space: CROWDED and EXPLOSIVE Regions -- CHAPTER 8. Estimating Qualities and Parameters -- PART THREE: Markets along Networks -- CHAPTER 9. Facing Upstream or Down -- CHAPTER 10. Embed and Decouple -- CHAPTER 11. Suppressing Market Realities -- PART FOUR: Markets and Firms over Time -- CHAPTER 12. Investing across Markets -- CHAPTER 13. Strategic Moves and Market Evolution -- CHAPTER 14. Contrasting Research Perspectives -- CHAPTER 15. Business Cultures -- CHAPTER 16. Conclusion -- APPENDIX. On Computations -- Glossary of Symbols -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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