This article shows how research on the social structure of markets may contribute to the analysis the growing income inequality in contemporary capitalist economies. The author proposes a theoretical link between embeddedness and social stratification by discussing the role of institutions and networks in markets for the distribution of economic profits between firms. The author claims that we must understand profit and free competition as opposites, as economic theory does. In the main part of the article the author illustrates six typical mechanisms of rent extraction from networks or formal and symbolic rules that embed markets. They emerge from material as well as symbolical access to and influence on the orientation of other market actors. Social structures in markets lead to unequal chances for rent extraction, even if actors produce them for coordination rather than for accumulation purposes. This is how market sociology and theory of capitalism can be linked more closely.

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利润作为社会租金：市场的嵌入和分层

本文显示了对市场社会结构的研究如何有助于分析当代资本主义经济中日益严重的收入不平等。作者通过讨论机构和网络在市场中企业间经济利益分配中的作用，提出了嵌入性与社会分层之间的理论联系。作者声称，我们必须像经济理论一样，将利润和自由竞争理解为对立的。在本文的主要部分中，作者说明了从嵌入市场的网络或正式和象征性规则中提取租金的六种典型机制。它们来自于对其他市场参与者的方向的物质以及象征性的进入和影响。市场中的社会结构导致租金获得机会不均，即使演员为协调而不是出于积累目的而制作它们。这就是市场社会学和资本主义理论可以更紧密地联系在一起的方式。