"'A lucid, much-needed, wide-ranging review of theoretical accounts of the nature and idea of markets and their effects on modern social order and cultural change." <i>Professor Alan Warde, University of Manchester</i> <br /> <p>"Slater and Tonkiss have written an incredibly stimulating and plainspoken book about the most compelling subject in the world today. <i>Market Society</i> is succinct yet comprehensive, dissolving "the market" into manageable concepts and concrete situations that will provoke both questions and many new ideas." <i>Professor Sharon Zukin, Brooklyn College and City University of New York Graduate School</i><br /> </p> <p>"Market society: Markets and Modern Social Theory will act as an excellent introduction to this area for a variety of students and their teachers. It is accessible without being simplistic, is well written and covers an impressive amound of ground. It deserves to find a place on many undergraduate and postgraduate courses on work, economic life, consumption as well as wider modules on political economy and social order." <i>British Journal of Sociology</i><br /> </p> <p>Slater and Tonkiss have produced for social scientists the most useful volume on markets that I have seen. ...The authors avoid polemics but show that markets often provoke moral responses in participants and observers"<i>Stephen Gudeman, The Journal of The Royal Anthropological Institute</i></p>