Markets and their Social Origins. How market forces transform societies and how societal forces seek to tame the market. What paths of development are chosen by the state and its bureaucracy. How societies respond to the state attempts to plan economic development. Why they succeed or fail.
Market interrelationships, exchange, production, reproduction, as social processes.
The material and ideological basis of patron-client relations. Strategies of survival and relations of power in a working class community, in an urban community and in a village. State repression and the role of fear. The social reproduction of inequality. Women, men and the moral economy of child-bearing.