As we'll see in future blog posts on modern mainstream economics, this methodological and epistemological approach of theirs coincides and/or parallels with a theoretical focus on the institution of the market at the expense of two other social institutions in, on the one hand, the ownership and control of the means of production (concentrated wealth and property), and, on the other, free wage-workers selling their labour-power in the market in exchange for a wage (wage-labour) - in short, the principal social structure of a capitalist market economy.
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