TY - JOUR PY - 2013// TI - Market cycles: bicycles, riders, industries, and environments in France and the United States, 1865-1914 JO - American journal of economics and sociology A1 - Burr, Thomas SP - 468 EP - 496 VL - 72 IS - 2 N2 - Issues of supply and demand are basic to markets, but economic sociologists ignore consumers, while sociologists of consumption rarely treat consumption as demand. I conceptualize markets as cyclic interactions of producers and consumers around a product, each group embedded in different types of macrosocial patterns, with different purposes and structures. I apply this conceptualization to the French and U.S. bicycle markets from 1865 to 1914. The model helps explain differing market trajectories in these cases.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0002-9246 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12014 ID - ref1 ER -