Conclusion : "market research"

A central theme of this book has been the contention that, although the rejection of market-centricity, market essentialism and market fundamentalism should be considered necessary, this move itself is not sufficient. Neither is it entirely sufficient merely to catalogue counter-indicators and contrary cases" of "varieties" of markets, let us say: of markets behaving badly and marketization processes going astray, or of markets randomly dissolved into "mixed" economies" in the absence of a more concerted conversation around the critical study of markets and marketization. To this end, we offer some concluding comments in this chapter, not in the form of a fully fabricated research agenda (which would surely be premature) but in the interest of continuing this conversation.