ISBN:
9780511539817
,
9786612155642
,
9781282155640
,
9780511540400
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (XI, 320 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Market and Society
DDC:
306.3/4
Keywords:
Polanyi, Karl
;
Markets Social aspects
;
History
;
Social history
Abstract:
This volume considers how the work of Polanyi can contribute to our understanding of the relationship between market and society
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Table; Contributors; 1 Introduction: Learning from Polanyi 1; 2 Necessity or contingency: Mutuality and market; 3 The great transformation of embeddedness: Karl Polanyi and the new economic sociology; 4 The critique of the economic point of view: Karl Polanyi and the Durkheimians; 5 Toward an alternative economy: Reconsidering the market, money, and value; 6 Money in the making of world society; 7 Debt, violence, and impersonal markets: Polanyian meditations; 8 Whatever happened to householding?
Description / Table of Contents:
9 Contesting The Great Transformation: Work in comparative perspective10 ""Sociological Marxism"" in central India: Polanyi, Gramsci, and the case of the unions; 11 Composites, fictions, and risk: toward an ethnography of price; 12 Illusions of freedom: Polanyi and the third sector; 13 Market and economy in environmental conservation in Jamaica; 14 Embedded socialism? Land, labor, and money in eastern Xinjiang; 15 Afterword: learning from Polanyi 2; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 284-312) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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