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This collection of essays rediscovers the physical space that markets inhabit and explores how political, social, and economic factors determine the shape of a

Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation is generally acclaimed as being among the most influential works of economic history in the twentieth century, and rem

Markets are at the origin of urban life as places for social, cultural and economic encounter evolving over centuries. Today, they have a particular value as mo

Economic behavior is governed by two major sets of boundary conditions: environmental and technological factors on the one hand, and conditions of social organi