Talk:Intermediation

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Not just financial

Financial intermediation is probably the best known example, but I suggest to cover also other forms of intermediation.

In the economic and business management literature, intermediation refers to a process matching two sides of a market, typically buyers and sellers. There is intermedition in foreign trade, the labour market and the housing market, for instance. At least two types of intermediaries can be distinguished: brokers, who arrange a contract between two parties, but never own the goods they are intermediating; and merchants who buy goods from producers and sell them to customers. Ebay is probably the best known intermediary of type broker and Walmart the best known intermediary of the type merchant.

The main economic functions of intermediaries are to reduce tranaction costs, especially search costs, to reduce risk connected with a transaction, and offer a broader variety of goods and services. This is true for intermediation in goods markets as well as financial markets.

Althusserian intermediation

and there's also the Althusserian intermediation. it is the ruling ideology of the State that ensures the harmony of State apparatuses, both the repressive State apparatus and the various ideological State apparatuses that ensure the reproduction of the relations of production. Althusser, Louis, Fredric Jameson, and Ben Brewster. 2001. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses: (Notes towards an Investigation).” Pp. 85–126 in Lenin and Philosophy and Other Essays. NYU Press. p., 101 *a cis woman growing a philosopher's beard MichelleGDyason 06:31, 19 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]