Postscript: Felder und Markte: Soziologische und historische Per spektivem. This postscript discusses the contributions to the special issue of HSR in the light of recent interdisciplinary studies on markets and market so cieties. It picks out the problem of legitimacy, the importance of events in the formation of markets and the configuration of fields, the role of disorder in the evolution of markets and the relation of markets and fields as the major threads running through the issue and identifies the investigation of the development of modern capitalism as a pressing task for future collaborative research by soci ologists, historians, and political scientists. The disciplinary specialization in the social sciences and humanities during the last 150 years has led to a compartmentalization which splits up the investiga tion of social phenomena that actually belong together. The neat separation of allegedly economic, social and legal issues, the distinction between history and the contemporary, or the focus on either modern societies or primitive socie ties are examples for disciplinary divisions that have their background not so much in the subject matter itself but in the politics of institutionalization of academic disciplines. While the social sciences did have a tradition which integrated the investigation of economic, social, political and historical phe nomena, this perspective got increasingly lost in the course of the twentieth century. It has been a welcome development in recent years that some of the existing barriers have been broken down. One example of this is the emergence of the new economic sociology, a subfield in which sociologists study the structures and processes of the economy. This field reaches over into political science, where political economists are studying the institutional configurations of contemporary economies. Within economics, though this is probably the most homogeneous social science discipline today, several heterodox schools depart from the heroic assumptions made in the neoclassical mainstream and thereby connect to sociology, history, and political science. Anthropologists have given