Jens Beckert is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the University of Cologne. He has held visiting positions at Princeton University, Harvard University, Cornell University, the European University Institute, and Sciences Po in Paris. He is the author of The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy (OUP), Beyond the Market: the Social Foundations of Economic Efficiency (Princeton University Press 2002) and Inherited Wealth (Princeton University Press 2008). His articles have been published in journals such as Theory & Society, Sociological Theory, Organization Studies, and the European Journal of Sociology.

Matías Dewey is a Senior Researcher in the project area on the sociology of illegal markets at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. He studied sociology in Argentina and received his PhD in Germany. As a visiting scholar, he has spent time at the University of Oxford, at the MaxPo in Paris and recently at the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. He has received grants from the Alexander von Humboldt and Volkswagen foundations. He has published extensively on social theory, economic sociology, illegal markets and qualitative research.

• 1: Jens Beckert and Matías Dewey: The Social Organization of Illegal Markets


• Part I: Conceptualizing Illegal Markets


• 2: Renate Mayntz: Illegal Markets: Boundaries and Interfaces between Legality and Illegality


• Part II: Secrecy and Illegal Markets:


• 3: Philippe Steiner: Secrecy and Frontiers in Illegal Organ Transplantation


• 4: Simon Mackenzie and Donna Yates: What Is Grey About the "Grey Market" in Antiquities?


• 5: Meltem Odabä, Thomas Holt, and Ronald Breiger: Governance in Online Stolen Data Markets


• 6: Ronen Palan: Futurity, Offshore, and the International Political Economy of Crime


• PArt III: The State in Informal Market Places


• 7: Matías Dewey: State-Sponsored Protection Rackets: Regulating the Market for Counterfeit Clothing in Argentina


• 8: Kirsten Endres: Shoddy, Fake, or Harmful: Smuggled Goods and Entangled Illegalities in a Vietnamese Border Market


• PArt IV: Shifting Definitions of Illegality


• 9: Cyrus Dioun: Making the Medical Marijuana Market


• 10: Annette Hübschle: Contested Illegality: Processing the Trade Prohibition of Rhino Horn


• 11: Nina Enwicht: "We Are the Genuine People": Legality and Legitimacy in the Sierra Leonean Diamond Market


• 12: Vadim Radaev: A Crooked Mirror: The Evolution of Illegal Alcohol Markets in Russia since the Late Socialist Period


• Part V: Illegal Practices in Legal Markets


• 13: Letizia Paoli and Victoria Greenfield: The Supply of Doping Products and the Relevance of Market-Based Perspectives: Implications of Recent Research in Italy


• 14: Boris Samuel: Illegal Prices: The Social Contestation of High Living Costs in Guadeloupe and Mauritania


• 15: Robert Tillman: The Price is Not Right: Financialization and Financial Crime