Download or read book States Versus Markets in the World-System written by Peter B. Evans and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1985-10-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors examine the proposition that states and markets are bound together by inextricable symbiotic ties, while at the same time always standing in tension with each other. The conclusion drawn from the nine diverse but very specific viewpoints contained in this work is that even though markets are constructed by geopolitics and state policy, 'geopolitics and markets define the economic and political space in which states operate'.