Market/Place

This collection of new essays from leading economic geographers addresses the contested place of markets in a physical setting and explore how the impact of political, social and economic factors determine the shape of a particular market space.

1. Introduction: exploring markets Jamie Peck, Christian Berndt and Norma Rantisi Part I Finding Markets 2. Thinking socially and spatially about markets Joy Paton and Damien Cahill 3. Where are markets? Jamie Peck 4. Geographies of marketization: performation struggles, incomplete commodification and the "problem of labor" Christian Berndt and Marc Boeckler 5. Persistent problems in the Polanyian critique of the market Fred Block Part 2 Constructing Markets 6. What are markets for and who makes them? Class, state-building and territorial management in the constitution of markets Erica Schoenberger 7. Geographically contested and variegated marketization Jun Zhang 8. Markets as struggle: the circulation and construction of charter school markets in the United States Dan Cohen 9. Of water and knowledge: the formation and scaling of public goods and markets Mark Harvey 10. The social metabolism of Karl Polanyi's fictitious nature Scott Prudham Part 3 Placing Markets 11. From the urbanization of capital to the capitalization of the urban Philip Ashton and Brett Christophers 12. Planning the social economy: the spatial politics of community economic development in Toronto Kuni Kamizaki and Katharine Rankin 13. Toward an ethnography of the national economy Hannah Appel 14. Platforms, merchants, and market space Chris Muellerleile 15. Conclusion: "market research" Norma Rantisi, Christian Berndt and Jamie Peck