Reading Karl Polanyi for the twenty-first century : market economy as a political project / [edited by] Ayşe Buğra, Kaan Ağartan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflections on disembeddedness: welfare state and beyond -- Suppressing the double movement to secure the dictatorship of finance / Manfred Bienefeld -- The 1970s and after: the political economy of inflation and the crisis of social democracy / Pat Devine -- The slight transformation: contesting the legacy of Karl Polanyi / Hannes Lacher -- Commodity fiction in contemporary market economies (1): work today -- Labor re-commodification in the global transformation / Guy Standing -- The right to work, way of social exclusion? : basic income as a guarantee to the right to work / José Luis Rey Pérez -- Commodity fiction in contemporary market economies (2): knowledge today -- Knowledge as a fictitious commodity: insights and limits of a Polanyian perspective / Bob Jessop -- Commodification of science in a neoliberal world / Gürol Irzık -- Intellectual property: commodification and its discontents / Virginia Brown-Keyder -- Patterns of resistance and adaptation -- Polanyi's concept of double movement and politics in the contemporary market society / Ayşe Buğra -- Reforming East Asian labor systems: China, Korea, and Thailand / Frederic C. Deyo and Kaan Ağartan -- The strong embrace of weak actors: explaining social support for economic liberalization through the case study of SMEs in the EU / Kevin Young -- Corporate social responsibility and market society: credit and banking inclusion in Brazil / Maria Alejandra Madi Caporale and José Ricardo Barbosa Gonçalves.

"This volume revisits Karl Polanyi's analysis of the institutional separation of politics and the economy in the context of the nineteenth century market society to argue that the market economy is not a spontaneous process, but a "political project" realized through institutional changes whereby labor, land, money, and currently knowledge appear as commodities. The contributions explore the political dynamics of this commodification process, its implications for human life and livelihood, and the possibilities for the advent of a more viable order where the economy would be replaced under social control. With its interdisciplinary reach, the book is of interest to academics and graduate students in different fields such as economic sociology, political economy and social policy."--Publisher description.

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