(the) market (as a concept)
The term "market" is fluffy in its definition.
academia, who argue that "the value of research is not determined by the marketplace." On the other hand, it is good to write a paper and have it quoted by others That seems to me to be a situation where you are putting a product called "thesis" on the market in order to get the value of "reference". ---
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