A digital market for a new society, a digital society for a new market - Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy, The Ordinal Society (Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 2024, 384 p.)

It is quite evident to the reader that digitalization is now a ubiquitous feature of modern societies, to the point that the digital is now an inextricable part of our lives, even of our identities.While we recognize that its reach is almost universal, we lack a comprehensive understanding of what that means.Not just regarding the role of social media or apps, but also regarding the digital infrastructure that is hidden from our daily experience or the impact of all this on businesses.Therefore, The Ordinal Society represents an important effort to understand the vast consequences of this transformation.Marion Fourcade and Kieran Healy are renowned scholars in economic sociology, who have written together principally about markets from the perspective of economic sociology.In a sense, this book is an attempt by its authors to bring together the arguments made in their previous papers 1 .In another sense, the book can be considered as part of the effort to understand the impact of digitalization alongside the transformation of capitalism.Readers will therefore find both parallels with other authors addressing the same subject as well as a complementary reading of that subject.