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9780521295086

Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today

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    9780521295086

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    0521295084

  • Edition: Revised
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2011-06-30
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation, offered a radical critique of how the market system has affected society and humanity since the industrial revolution. This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in economic anthropology, sociology and political economy to consider Polanyi's theories in the light of circumstances today, when the relationship between market and society has again become a focus of intense political and scientific debate. It demonstrates the relevance of Polanyi's ideas to various theoretical traditions in the social sciences and provides new perspectives on topics such as money, risk, work and the family. The case studies present materials from around the world, including Britain, China, India, Jamaica and Nigeria. Like Polanyi's original work, the critical engagement of these essays will be of interest to a wide readership.

Table of Contents

Introduction: learning from Polanyi 1
Necessity or contingency: mutuality and market
The great transformation of embeddedness: Karl Polanyi and the new economic sociology
The critique of the economic point of view: Karl Polanyi and the Durkheimians
Towards an alternative economy: reconsidering the market, money and value
Money in the making of world society
Debt, violence and impersonal markets: Polanyian meditations
Whatever happened to householding?
Contesting The Great Transformation: work in comparative perspective
'Sociological Marxism' in Central India: Polanyi, Gramsci and the case of the unions
Composites, fictions and risk: towards an ethnography of price
Illusions of freedom: Polanyi and the third sector
Market and economy in environmental conservation in Jamaica
Embedded socialism? Land, labour and money in eastern Xinjiang
Afterword: learning from Polanyi 2
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