| Titre | Le marché du livre philosophique. | |
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| Auteur | Olivier Godechot. | |
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Revue | Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales |
| Numéro | no 130, décembre 1999 Edition, éditeurs (2) | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Edition, éditeurs (2) |
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| Résumé anglais | The philosophy-book market The market for books on philosophy stands at the crossroads of number of fields the field of academic and intellectual produ cers the economic field of publishing farther from the center the field of journalism and the variegated world of textbook buyers professors highschool and college students and the general public The author has analyzed the social production of both the supply function and demand function and has shown how they intersect in the market place The discovery of the constants that structure both supply and demand shows that the philosophy-book market is in large part an intrastate market Assessment of these constants makes it possible to des cribe in the second part of the study the dynamics of this mar ket The morphological changes in the worlds of production and reception in particular the fluctuation in the number of pro fessional places to be filled by the competitive examinations in philosophy explain not only the quantity of works produced and sold but also their qualities Analysis of this fundamental determinant for the development of the market between 1945 and 1993 sheds new light on the evolution in the indepen dence of the intellectual field | |
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