ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the modalities of the market and explains how the social and solidarity economy is assembled in relation to the state, capitalism and the community. It explores the nature of economic embeddedness before turning to look more closely at co-ordination, value and co-operation and how the Solidarity Economy has been marginalised by more robust state and private markets. Understanding the rules of the game means understanding market dynamics and how disembedding and re-embedding strategies are performed and what they mean, tactically, for social and solidarity economics. Modes of market integration and how natural resources are turned into commodities are far more variegated, as revealed in the central struggle between private property rights and the commons. The chapter concludes with evaluating M. Callon's work on market dynamics, which suggests some of the ground rules for assembling alternative institutions, systems and knowledge, critical to the political, as well as the economic, mobilisation of the sector.
