of the unequal capacities of wealth or influence or organizational resources that make domination possible. Power underlines the elements of coercion in social exchange: the monopolization of resources, the distortion of desire, the pinch of necessity, the coercion of consent, the extraction of obedience. The economists' reigning model of exchange stressed, to the contrary, the voluntary character of the act: without a sense of themselves as better off now with the results than they were before, no bargainers would come to agreement.
