TY  - JOUR
TI  - The Informal Economy and Its Paradoxes
T2  - Economic Sociology
IS  - Economic Sociology
KW  - informal sector
KW  - measurement of the informal economy
KW  - state regulation
KW  - informal economy
KW  - social ties
AB  - The range of types of the informal economic activity is rather wide and continuously growing. It is a unique example of the invasion of the social forces into the world of the economic transactions. The paper gives the history of the term of "informal economy" and its definitions. The main attention is paid to those aspects of informal economy which let include it into the sphere of the sociological analysis. 
AU  - Alejandro Portes
UR  - https://ecsoc.hse.ru/en/2003-4-5/26593865.html
PY  - 2003
SP  - 34-53
VL  - 4