Re: [PEN-L:1462] Re: Re: Re: Enlightenment Insight, part two

["Anthony D'Costa" <dcosta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's a fundamental difference between marketplace and market.  The
former a particular, local place of exchange, the latter a more abstract
place of exchange with price-making mechanism (a la Polanyi). There are of
course several other usages of market/place (see Boyer in States against
Markets, edited by Boyer and Drache).

Anthony P. D'Costa
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Comparative International Development
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On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Jim Devine wrote:

> At 12:24 PM 12/10/98 -0800, you wrote:
> >>
> >>As Louis points out, there was no "marketplace for ideas" in Galileo's time
> >>in Europe, either.
> >>
> >
> >>Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
> >
> >No he doesn't. There's no marketplace for ideas in Galileo's time in
> >*Italy* (or anywhere under the sway of the Counterreformation). There was a
> >pretty good marketplace for ideas going in Holland, England, and Denmark.
> >
> >I wouldn't mind so much that people don't remember history and so are
> >condemned to repeat it, if it didn't mean that the rest of us are condemned
> >to repeat it with them...
> >
>
> Ignoring the petty insult, are you saying that in Holland, England, and
> Denmark, scientists and scholars were selling their research to make a
> profit? What kind of market are you talking about?
>
> Jim Devine jdevine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx &
> http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html
>
>