Abstract
“The market” is often used as a term of abuse as is “the free market economy” it creates. Markets are blamed for unemployment, exploitation and the commercialisation of society. Suspicions of markets are long-standing: for millennia, price controls have been used to reduce disliked market outcomes. Criticisms can be of market mechanisms, the market culture and behaviour in markets.
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Rutherford, D. (2016). Introduction. In: Suspicions of Markets. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40808-8_1
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