The great transformation : the political and economic origins of our time /
Karl Polanyi ; foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz ; introduction by Fred Block.
- 2nd Beacon Paperback ed.
- xli, 317 p. ; 22 cm.
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 -- 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 -- Index. Pt. 1. 1. 2. Pt. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. Pt. 3. 19. 20. 21.
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Economic history--1750-1918 Social history Economics--History.