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" The great transformation : "
Karl Polanyi ; foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz ; introduction by Fred Block
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BL
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701726
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b523915
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| Main Entry
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Polanyi, Karl,1886-1964
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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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2nd Beacon Paperback ed
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Boston, MA :: Beacon Press,, 2001
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xli, 317 pages ; 22 cm
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080705643X
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| Notes
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Originally published: New York : Farrar and Rinehart, 1944 and reprinted in 1957 by Beacon in Boston
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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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 -- Self-protection 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
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Economic history
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Economics-- History
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Social history
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330.9
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HC53.P6 2001
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