Market and Community

Market and Community, Volume 1, explores the complex interactions between individual actions, institutional structures, and cultural norms. This social structure and social choice study examines how these factors create social order, analyzing the competing rationalist, structuralist, and culturalist paradigms within social science.

The authors present a new model based on a classificatory scheme of market, community, contract, and hierarchy. This academic work addresses both methodological and empirical issues, including a review of classic revolution theories. The text analyzes the process of relegitimation following the Dutch Revolt against the Hapsburgs and the French Revolution to illustrate these social theories.