Great Transformation The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

Name: Great Transformation The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
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ISBN: 9780807056431

ISBN-10: 080705643X

ISBN-13: 9780807056431

Edition: 2nd 2001

Authors: Karl Polanyi

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One of the twentieth century's most thorough and discerning historians, Karl Polanyi sheds "new illumination on . . . the social implications of a particular economic system, the market economy that grew into full stature in the nineteenth century."-R. M. MacIver

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List price: $25.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Beacon Press
Publication date: 3/28/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.254
Language: English

Foreword
Introduction
Note on the 2001 Edition
Author's Acknowledgments
The International System
The Hundred Years' Peace	p. 3
Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary Thirties	p. 21
Rise and Fall of Market Economy
"Habitation versus Improvement"	p. 35
Societies and Economic Systems	p. 45
Evolution of the Market Pattern	p. 59
The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money	p. 71
Speenhamland, 1795	p. 81
Antecedents and Consequences	p. 90
Pauperism and Utopia	p. 108
Political Economy and the Discovery of Society	p. 116
Man, Nature, and Productive Organization	p. 136
Birth of the Liberal Creed	p. 141
Birth of the Liberal Creed (Continued): Class Interest and Social Change	p. 158
Market and Man	p. 171
Market and Nature	p. 187
Market and Productive Organization	p. 201
Self-Regulation Impaired	p. 210
Disruptive Strains	p. 218
Transformation in Progress
Popular Government and Market Economy	p. 231
History in the Gear of Social Change	p. 245
Freedom in a Complex Society	p. 257
Balance of Power as Policy, Historical Law, Principle, and System	p. 269
Hundred Years' Peace	p. 273
The Snapping of the Golden Thread	p. 274
Swings of the Pendulum after World War I	p. 275
Finance and Peace	p. 275
Selected References to "Societies and Economic Systems"	p. 276
Selected References to "Evolution of the Market Pattern"	p. 280
The Literature of Speenhamland	p. 285
Poor Law and the Organization of Labor	p. 288
Speenhamland and Vienna	p. 298
Why Not Whitbread's Bill?	p. 299
Disraeli's "Two Nations" and the Problem of Colored Races	p. 300
Index	p. 305
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