The great transformation : the political and economic origins of our time / Karl Polanyi ; foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz ; introduction by Fred Block.

Originally published: New York : Farrar & Rinehart, 1944 and reprinted in 1957 by Beacon in Boston.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Note on the 2001 Edition -- Author's Acknowledgments -- Pt. 1. The International System -- 1. The Hundred Years' Peace -- 2. Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary Thirties -- Pt. 2. Rise and Fall of Market Economy -- 3. "Habitation versus Improvement" -- 4. Societies and Economic Systems -- 5. Evolution of the Market Pattern -- 6. The Self-Regulating Market and the Fictitious Commodities: Labor, Land, and Money -- 7. Speenhamland, 1795 -- 8. Antecedents and Consequences -- 9. Pauperism and Utopia -- 10. Political Economy and the Discovery 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 -- Pt. 3. Transformation in Progress -- 19. Popular Government and Market Economy -- 20. History in the Gear of Social Change -- 21. 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 -- Index.