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Two legal tenders, no currency. El Salvador’s bitcoin adoption between world money and international money 两种法定货币，没有货币。萨尔瓦多在世界货币和国际货币之间采用比特币

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-05-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100045

Tobias Boos , Juan Grigera

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Bioeconomy innovations and their regional embeddedness: Results from a qualitative multiple-case study on German flagship innovations 生物经济创新及其区域嵌入性：来自德国旗舰创新定性多案例研究的结果

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-05-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100044

Michael P. Schlaile , Jonathan Friedrich , Luise Porst , Jana Zscheischler

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From average to extremes: Application of archetypal analysis in economic geography 从平均到极端：原型分析在经济地理学中的应用

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100042

Milad Abbasiharofteh

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A GPN perspective on the adoption of blockchain technology in global supply chains 全球供应链采用区块链技术的GPN视角

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-24 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100043

Sarah Franz

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Exploring the spatial dynamics of circular economy transitions: Insights and lessons from Chile's mining territories 探索循环经济转型的空间动态：来自智利矿区的见解和教训

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-20 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100041

Konstantin Born

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The role of real estate in the development of cities and regions: Territorial real estate and economic systems 房地产在城市和地区发展中的作用：全域房地产与经济体系

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-04-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100040

Olivier Crevoisier , Thierry Theurillat , Mathias Rota , Alain Segessemann , Anaïs Merckhoffer

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Blockchain real estate: The messy landing of digital property b区块链房地产：数字房地产的混乱着陆

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100039

Matthew Zook, Michael McCanless

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A role for economic geographers in the entrepreneurial ecosystem framework: Global pipelines and the mobility challenge 经济地理学家在创业生态系统框架中的作用：全球管道和流动性挑战

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100037

Jan Jacob Vogelaar , Shiri Breznitz

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From bytes to bricks: Advocating for a turn toward platform-led infrastructuralization in economic geography 从字节到砖块：倡导在经济地理学中转向以平台为主导的基础设施

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-03-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100038

Sina Hardaker

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Assetizing the video game: Play-to-earn (P2E) games and blockchain rentiership 评估电子游戏：P2E游戏和区块链收益

Progress in Economic Geography Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1016/j.peg.2025.100036

Gordon Kuo Siong TAN

{"title":"Assetizing the video game: Play-to-earn (P2E) games and blockchain rentiership","authors":"Gordon Kuo Siong TAN","doi":"10.1016/j.peg.2025.100036","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.peg.2025.100036","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Rentiership has recently involved the growing use of novel technological mechanisms to facilitate rent capture and extraction. This trend is reflected in a slew of \"play-toearn\" (P2E) video games. P2E users can earn money by playing blockchain-based video games and accumulating cryptocurrency tokens and other virtual in-game assets, which are represented as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). This paper argues that P2E gaming represents a new form of techno-economic rentiership that blurs the boundaries between work and play. Using the P2E game Axie Infinity as a case study, this paper explores how economic rents are being made in a digital environment and examines the role of labor in driving rentiership dynamics. Blockchain serves as a tool for generating rents by facilitating the decentralized production of a plethora of digital assets by individual users, where property and ownership rights of these assets are algorithmically governed. P2E labor is organized under manager-scholar programs and gaming guilds that allow asset owners to receive a cut of players’ earnings in exchange for lending game assets. These labor arrangements promote community in the assetization process. Such a rentiership system is inherently unstable, relying on a highly financialized business model that needs to keep attracting financially motivated players who sustain asset values through their gameplay.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":101047,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Economic Geography","volume":"3 1","pages":"Article 100036"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143176259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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