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The great transformation : the political and economic origins of our time /
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Title:The great transformation : the political and economic origins of our time / Karl Polanyi ; foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz ; introduction by Fred Block.
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Publisher:Boston, MA : Beacon Press, 2001.
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ISBN:080705643X (pa : alk. paper)
9780807056431 (pa : alk. paper)
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Description:2nd Beacon Paperback ed.
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Physical Desc:xli, 317 p. ; 22 cm.
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Contents:
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. -
Subjects:Economic history.
Social history.
Economics--History.
Markteconomie.
Politieke aspecten.
Sociaal-economische aspecten.
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