Making Sustainable Markets and the Forming of a Circular Economy

Mason, Katy and Jalili Tanha, Thomas (2021) Making Sustainable Markets and the Forming of a Circular Economy. In: The Routledge Handbook of Waste, Resources and the Circular Economy. Routledge, Abingdon, pp. 211-220. ISBN 9780367364649

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Abstract

implications of the making of sustainable markets for the Circular Economy. In so doing, we consider extant market studies research that seeks to explain how collectives are mobilised into generating new conceptualisations of concerned markets (Fernandes, Mason and Chakrabarti 2019; Geiger et al. 2014; Mason, Friesl and Ford 2017), where market action needs to be changed to make a market work well for society and for the environment (Geels 2010). We also draw on the notion of moral markets. That is, how markets that adopt certain forms of market action become understood as valuable in their own right. We see this as central to understanding how circular economies are created. We see moral markets as being revealing something of the value of anarchistic actions, of concerned entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs that aim to bring about such change.