TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karl Polanyi 
TI  - The Great Transformation : The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
SN  - 978-0-8070-5643-1
U1  - 330.9 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Boston - Estados Unidos 
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - ECONOMIC
N1  - Contents -- FOREWORD BY JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ -- INTRODUCTION BY FRED BLOCK -- NOTE ON THE 2001 EDITION -- AUTHOR´S ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Part One: The internacional system -- 1.The Hundred Year´s peace -- 2.Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary thirties -- Part two: Rise and fall of market economy -- I.Satanic Mill -- 3."Habitation versus Improvement" -- 4.Societies and Economic Systems -- 5.Evolution of the Market and the Market Pattern -- 6.The Self-Regulating Market and the fictitious commodities: labor, land, and money -- 7.Speenhamland, 1795 -- 8.Antecedents ang consequences -- 9.Pauperism and Utopia -- 10.Political Economy and the Discovery of Society -- II.Self-Protection of Society -- 11.Man, Nature, and Productive Organization -- 12.Birth of the liberal creed -- 13.Birth of the liberal creed (continued): Class Interest and Social Change -- 14.Market and man -- 15.Market and nature -- 16.Market and productive organization -- 17.Self-regulation impaired -- 18.Disruptive strains -- Part Three: Transformation in Progress -- 19.Popular Government and market economy -- 20.History in the Gear of Social change -- 21.Freedom in a Complex Society -- Notes on Sources -- 1.Balance of power as Policy, Historical Law, principle, and System -- 2.Hundred years´peace -- 3.The Snapping of the golden thread -- 4.Swing of the pendulum after world war I -- 5.Finance and peace -- 6.Selected references to "Societies and economic Systems -- 7.Selected references to "Evolution of the market pattern" -- 8.The literature of speenhamland -- 9.Poor law and the Organization of labor -- 10.Speenhamland and Vienna -- 11.Why not whitbread´s bill? -- 12.Disraeli´s "two nations" and the problem of colored races. -- Index
N2  - In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi 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
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