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How much economic uncertainty is compatible with social stability? How much social stability is required for economic uncertainty to be sustainable? These are no minor questions: they refer to the extent to which free markets must be contained, or embedded, to function and be acceptable to human beings. Both markets and, in particular, human beings require stable social relations.
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Streeck, W. (2010). Flexible Markets, Stable Societies?. In: Soeffner, HG. (eds) Unsichere Zeiten. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-92035-1_43
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