The great transformation : the political and economic origins of our time
Karl Polanyi, Joseph E. Stiglitz (Writer of preface), Fred L. Block (Writer of introduction)
"In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polonyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewed importance of Polanyi's seminal analysis in an era of globalization and free trade."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2001
2nd Beacon paperback ed View all formats and editions
Beacon Press, Boston, MA, 2001
History
xli, 317 pages ; 22 cm
9780807056431, 080705643X
44869073
The international system. The hundred years' peace ; Conservative twenties, revolutionary thirties
Rise and fall of market economy. "Habitation versus improvement" ; Societies and economic systems ; Evolution of the market pattern ; The self-regulating market and the fictitious commodities: labor, land, and money ; Speenhamland, 1795 ; Antecedents and consequences ; Pauperism and utopia ; Political economy and the discovery of society ; Man, nature, and productive organization ; Birth of the liberal creed ; Birth of the liberal creed (continued): class interest and social change ; Market and man ; Market and nature ; Market and productive organization ; Self-regulation impaired ; Disruptive strains
Transformation in progress. Popular government and market economy ; History in the gear of social change ; Freedom in a complex society
Balance of power as policy, historical law, principle, and system
Hundred years' peace
The snapping of the golden thread
Swings of the pendulum after World War I
Finance and peace
Selected references to "societies and economic systems"
Selected references to "evolution of the market pattern"
The literature of Speenhamland
Poor law and the organization of labor
Speenhamland and Vienna
Why not Whitbread's bill?
Disraeli's "two nations" and the problem of colored races
Originally published: New York : Farrar & Rinehart, 1944 and reprinted in 1957 by Beacon in Boston