Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgements

pp vii-viii

Contributors

pp ix-x

1 - Introduction: exploring markets

pp 1-26

Part I - Finding Markets

pp 27-28

2 - Thinking socially and spatially about markets

pp 29-48

3 - Where are markets?

pp 49-68

4 - Geographies of marketization: performation struggles, incomplete commodification and the “problem of labour”

pp 69-88

5 - Persistent problems in the Polanyian critique of the market

pp 89-102

Part II - Constructing Markets

pp 103-104

6 - What are markets for and who makes them? Class, state-building and territorial management in the constitution of markets

pp 105-118

7 - Geographically contested and variegated marketization

pp 119-134

8 - Markets as struggle: the circulation and construction of charter school markets in the United States

pp 135-152

9 - Of water and knowledge: the formation and scaling of public goods and markets

pp 153-170

10 - The social metabolism of Karl Polanyi’s fictitious nature

pp 171-190

Part III - Placing Markets

pp 191-192

11 - From the urbanization of capital to the capitalization of the urban

pp 193-212

12 - Planning the social economy: the spatial politics of community economic development in Toronto

pp 213-232

13 - Towards an ethnography of the national economy

pp 233-248

14 - Platforms, merchants and market space

pp 249-268

15 - Conclusion: “market research”

pp 269-284

Bibliography

pp 285-318

Index

pp 319-326