The great transformation / by Karl Polanyi

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York, Toronto : Rinehart & Company, Inc. [1944]Description: xiii, [1], 305 pages : 22 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.9
LOC classification:
  • HC 53 .P6 1944
Contents:
Part one. The international system: Chapter 1. The hundred years' peace -- Chapter 2. Conservative twenties, revolutionary thirties
Part two. Rise and fall of market economy: I.Satanic mill Chapter 3. "Habitation versus Improvement" -- Chapter 4. Societies and economic systems -- Chapter 5. Evolution of the market pattern -- Chapter 6. The self-regulating market and the fictitious commodities: labor, land, and money -- Chapter 7. Speenhamland, 1795 -- Chapter 8. Antecedents and consequences -- Chapter 9. Pauperism and utopia -- Chapter 10. Political economy and the discovery of society II. Self-protection of society Chapter 11. Man, nature, and productive organization -- Chapter 12. Birth of the liberal creed -- Chapter 13. Birth of the liberal creed (continued) : class interest and social change -- Chapter 14. Market and man -- Chapter 15. Market and nature -- Chapter 16. Market and productive organization -- Chapter 17. Self-regulation impaired -- Chapter 18. Disruptive strains
Part three. Transformation in progress: Chapter 19. Popular government and market economy -- Chapter 20. History int he gear of social change -- Chapter 21. Freedom in a complex society
Summary: "The Great Transformation .... deals with the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements but as the single human invention he calls the 'Market Society.' " -- Wikipedia
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-294) and index.

Part one. The international system: Chapter 1. The hundred years' peace -- Chapter 2. Conservative twenties, revolutionary thirties

Part two. Rise and fall of market economy: I.Satanic mill Chapter 3. "Habitation versus Improvement" -- Chapter 4. Societies and economic systems -- Chapter 5. Evolution of the market pattern -- Chapter 6. The self-regulating market and the fictitious commodities: labor, land, and money -- Chapter 7. Speenhamland, 1795 -- Chapter 8. Antecedents and consequences -- Chapter 9. Pauperism and utopia -- Chapter 10. Political economy and the discovery of society II. Self-protection of society Chapter 11. Man, nature, and productive organization -- Chapter 12. Birth of the liberal creed -- Chapter 13. Birth of the liberal creed (continued) : class interest and social change -- Chapter 14. Market and man -- Chapter 15. Market and nature -- Chapter 16. Market and productive organization -- Chapter 17. Self-regulation impaired -- Chapter 18. Disruptive strains

Part three. Transformation in progress: Chapter 19. Popular government and market economy -- Chapter 20. History int he gear of social change -- Chapter 21. Freedom in a complex society

"The Great Transformation .... deals with the social and political upheavals that took place in England during the rise of the market economy. Polanyi contends that the modern market economy and the modern nation-state should be understood not as discrete elements but as the single human invention he calls the 'Market Society.' " -- Wikipedia

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