Market Studies is an economics-adjacent interdisciplinary look at markets from the points of view of sociology, marketing, organizational studies and related fields. Here's a big new book which I've barely begun to skim. A good place for market designers to look first might be Chapter 2 - Market Engineering: A New Problem for Market Studies?
Market Studies: Mapping, Theorizing and Impacting Market Action Edited by Susi Geiger, University College Dublin, Katy Mason, Lancaster University, Neil Pollock, University of Edinburgh, Philip Roscoe, University of St Andrews, Scotland, Annmarie Ryan, University of Limerick, Stefan Schwarzkopf, Copenhagen Business School, Pascale Trompette, Université de Grenoble, Cambridge University Press, November 2024, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009413961
Part I - Market Designs and Market Misfires
pp 19-96- By Susi Geiger
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Chapter 4 - Factishing a Market
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Chapter 6 - The Performativity Test
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Part III - Valuation
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Part IV - Markets in Motion: Places and Spaces
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Chapter 17 - Making Space and Beating a Path to a Marketplace: The Uneven Spatial Ordering of Christmas Tourism Markets
pp 280-293- By Torik Holmes, Teea Palo, Josiane Fernandes
Part V - The Secret Life of Market Studies Methods
pp 315-400- By Katy Mason
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Chapter 25 - Marketing Work and Labour
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Part VII - Future (Im)Perfect Markets
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