ABSTRACT
Market transactions originated in the no-man’s land—geographical or at least notional—between one community or another. Before they could enter either, they had to be allotted a place in it, and “place” designates both an expanse and its limits. 1 In modem times, it was the state that institutionalized market behavior through private law that at the same time defined the boundaries within which “marketing” had to be confined.
