Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today

by Edited by Chris Hann , Keith Hart

• ISBN13: 9780521519656
• ISBN10: 0521519659
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-05-29
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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

List of figures and table	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Introduction: Learning from Polanyi 1	p. 1
Necessity or contingency: Mutuality and market	p. 17
The great transformation of embeddedness: Karl Polanyi and the new economic sociology	p. 38
The critique of the economic point of view: Karl Polanyi and the Durkheimians	p. 56
Toward an alternative economy: Reconsidering the market, money, and value	p. 72
Money in the making of world society	p. 91
Debt, violence, and impersonal markets: Polanyian meditations	p. 106
Whatever happened to householding?	p. 133
Contesting The Great Transformation: Work in comparative perspective	p. 160
"Sociological Marxism" in Central India: Polanyi, Gramsci, and the case of the unions	p. 175
Composites, fictions, and risk: toward an ethnography of price	p. 203
Illusions of freedom: Polanyi and the third sector	p. 221
Market and economy in environmental conservation in Jamaica	p. 240
Embedded socialism? Land, labour, and money in eastern Xinjiang	p. 256
Afterword: Learning from Polanyi 2	p. 272
Bibliography	p. 284
Index	p. 313
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