Concerned Markets

'Do those impersonal allocation mechanisms that we call markets even exist as such? Or should we drop this questionable euphemism if what we want is to address the political struggles and bureaucratic processes that control economic life? Readers interested in a measured approach to the subject matter will find a set of clues here. By considering markets as nodes of concerns, the works assembled in this volume guide us along a subtle path.' -- Fabian Muniesa, Ecole des Mines de Paris, France 'The insightful essays collected here show that markets are a matter of concern because they can be spaces for making concerns matter.' -- David Stark, Columbia University, US and author of The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life

Edited by Susi Geiger, Associate Professor of Marketing, University College Dublin, Ireland, Debbie Harrison, Associate Professor, BI Norwegian Business School, Norway, Hans Kjellberg, Professor of Marketing, Department of Marketing and Strategy, Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden and Alexandre Mallard, Director of the Centre de Sociologie de lInnovation, Ecole des Mines ParisTech, France

Contents: 1. Being Concerned about Markets Susi Geiger, Debbie Harrison, Hans Kjellberg and Alexandre Mallard 2. Expressing Concerns over the Incentive as a Public Policy Device Guus Dix 3. Marketization by the (Rule)book: Concern for Market and Public Values in Primary Care Linus Johansson Krafve 4. Concerns and Marketization: The Case of Sustainable Palm Oil Simona DAntone and Robert Spencer 5. Engaging Diverging Interests Through Pricing: The Case of Maize for Bioenergy Production in Germany Jrgen Hauber and Chantal Ruppert-Winkel 6. Credible Qualifications: The Case of Functional Foods Frank Azimont and Luis Araujo 7. Designing Better Markets for People at the Bottom of the Pyramid: Bottom-up Market Design Ronika Chakrabarti and Katy Mason 8. Articulating Matters of Concern in Markets: (En)tangling Goods, Market Agencies and Overflows Winfred Ikiring Onyas and Annmarie Ryan 9. Doing Green: Environmental Concerns and the Realization of Green Values in Everyday Food Practices Hans Kjellberg and Ingrid Stigzelius 10. Concerned Markets: Facing the Future, Beyond Interested and Contested Markets Franck Cochoy Index