TY  - JOUR
TI  -  The Bazaar Economy: Information and Search in Peasant Marketing
T2  - Economic Sociology
IS  - Economic Sociology
KW  - bazaar
KW  - clientelization
KW  - bargaining
KW  - institutional structure
KW  - search for information
AB  - This paper describes major principles governing the organization of bazaar. The bazaar economy shows a number of distinctive characteristics that distinguish it from the perfect market as well as non-market economy. The search for information and its protection are central treats of life in the bazaar. Search effi ciency depends on two most important procedures, namely: clientelization and bargaining. The bazaar does not correspond to a stereotypical vision describing it as a chaotic crowd phenomenon. Instead, it presents a complex structure of ties among participants involved in close relations of competition and interdependency
AU  - Clifford Geertz
UR  - https://ecsoc.hse.ru/en/2009-10-2/26594126.html
PY  - 2009
SP  - 54-62
VL  - 10