A Keen Demand for Camberwells
Rosemary Hill: Location, Location, Location, 21 March 2019
Marketable Values: Inventing the Property Market in Modern Britain
by Desmond Fitz-Gibbon.
Chicago, 240 pp., £79, January 2019,978 0 226 58416 4 Show More
by Desmond Fitz-Gibbon.
Chicago, 240 pp., £79, January 2019,
“... if naive, wasn’t stupid. What, after all, is a market? This is the question at the heart of Desmond Fitz-Gibbon’s detailed and thoughtful analysis of a bewilderingly elastic concept that may refer to anything from a medieval town square to a set of algorithms, and deal in goods as tangible as carrots or as abstract as derivatives. What exactly is ... ”
