A chapter on The social metabolism of Karl Polanyi’s fictitious nature, written by Professor Scott Prudham is included in the recent publication of Market/Place, Exploring Spaces of Exchange. This collection of new essays rediscovers the physical space that markets inhabit and explore how the impact of political, social and economic factors determine the shape of a particular market space. The essays present new research from the fields of geography, economics, political economy and planning and provide valuable case study material to show how markets are contested, constructed and placed. Rather than separate markets from the surrounding society and state, these essays connect markets to their wider context and showcase how economic geography can combine with other disciplines to throw new light on spaces of exchange.
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