Seeing like a market: commentary on Brendan Murtagh’s (2019) Social Economics and the Solidarity City

ABSTRACT

This extended review of Brendan Murtagh’s (2019) Social Economics and the Solidarity City is one of six critical commentaries inspired by an unusually constructive and thought-provoking ‘Author meets Critics’ session at the 2019 RGS-IBG Annual Conference in London.

KEYWORDS:

• Social economy
• urban assemblage
• market exchange
• value

Notes on contributor

Matthew Thompson is an urban geographer whose research focuses on urban political economy, including new municipalism, housing and regeneration, and the social and solidarity economy. He is the author of Reconstructing Public Housing: Liverpool’s Hidden History of Collective Alternatives, forthcoming with Liverpool University Press.