# Strategic structuring, informal or formal, whereby social agents, including the state, establish a rule regime regulating market access and transac… - Tom R. Burns

In sum, social actors knowledgeably and actively use, interpret and implement rule systems. They also creatively reform and transform them. In such ways they bring about institutional innovation and transformation and shape the ‘deep structures’ of human history.

There are two basic ways market organization is brought about... Some combination of the two is usual the case:

Historical, political economic systems theory. The Marxian approach to system theorizing clearly points us to sociologically important phenomena: the material conditions of social life, stratification and social class, conflict, the reproduction as well as transformation of capitalist systems, the conditions that affect group mobilization and political power, and the ways ideas functions as ideologies.