Karl Polanyi in Vienna : the contemporary significance of The great transformation / Kenneth McRobbie, Kari Polanyi-Levitt, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levitt, Kari.

McRobbie, Kenneth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964.

Polanyi, Karl.

Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964. Great transformation.

Europe, Eastern--Economic conditions.

Europe, Eastern.

Eastern Europe.

Economic conditions.

Duczynska, Ilona.

Economics--History.

Economics.

History.

Social history.

Physical Description:

ix, 346 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Montréal ; New York : Black Rose Books, 2000.

Summary:

While the conventional wisdom holds that the current globalization of market forces is something fundamentally new, Karl Polanyi's classic 1944 study, The Great Transformation, with its detailed analysis of the operation of the market system in history, had revealed the reality of the globally-integrated financial system in the last century.

Polanyi declared culture and society must displace the economy from being the center of human concern. From this starting point, Part One examines the collapse and disarray in the territories of the Russian Federation of today and the different ways in which Eastern European societies have tried to solve common socio-economic problems. The discussion then goes on to explore the broad notion of citizenship taking shape in the world economy.

Part Two looks at the life and work of Ilona Duczynska-Polanyi, at her political activism, and at her life with Karl in Vienna during 1920-1933. Based on published articles and unpublished notes and correspondence, and on interviews, the passages presented here, while chiefly memories of the Polanyi household, do describe the genesis and development of aspects of Karl Polanyi's thinking during this period as well.

Contents:

Part 1 Themes from the Fifth Karl Polanyi Conference, Vienna, 1994

The Contemporary Significance of the Great Transformation

Chapter 1 The Great Transformation From the 1920s to the 1990s / Kari Polanyi Levitt 3

Chapter 2 Globalization and Haute Finance

Deja Vu? / Eric Helleiner 12

Chapter 3 The Continuing Crisis of Democracy / Michele Cangiani 32

Chapter 4 The Case for Control Over Cross-Border Capital Flows / Fred Block 47

Chapter 5 Re-reading Polanyi: Towards a Second Great Transformation / Bjorn Hettne 60

Chapter 6 Conditions for Re-launching Development / Samir Amin 73

Chapter 7 Literature and The Great Transformation / Kenneth McRobbie 85

Transitions from Planned to Market Economies

Chapter 8 On the Economic Implications of (Mis) understanding Markets in Transition Countries / J.A. Kregel 108

Chapter 9 From Planned Economy to Market Economy in the Former East Berlin / Birgit Muller 116

Chapter 10 Survival Strategies in Post-1989 Bulgaria / Yulian Konstantinov 132

Chapter 11 Changing Modes of Economic Integration in Bulgarian History / Tanya Chavdarova 146

Chapter 12 Financial Stabilization and Social Destabilization in Hungary / Laszlo Andor 160

Chapter 13 The Privatization of the State: The British Experience / Alan Scott 173

Identities, Culture, Citizenship and Democracy

Chapter 14 Of Social Spaces, Citizenship, and the Nature of Power in the World Economy / Andre C. Drainville 192

Chapter 15 Individualism, Identities and Inclusionary Citizenship in Western Political Culture / Gregor Matjan 213

Chapter 16 The Constitution of Work Time / Reinhard Pirker 224

Chapter 17 Democratizing Capital: Alternatives to Market-led Transition / Marguerite Mendell 234

Chapter 18 Reciprocity and the Informal Economy in Latin America / Larissa Adler Lomnitz 246

Part 2 Karl Polanyi and Ilona Duczynska

Ilona Duczynska Polanyi

Chapter 19 Ilona Duczynska: Sovereign Revolutionary / Kenneth McRobbie 255

Chapter 20 Ilona Duczynska and Austro-Marxism / Alfred Pfabigan 265

Chapter 21 This Is the Voice of Radio Schutzbund / Barbara Striker 272

Chapter 22 From Girl Revolutionary to Old Dissident / Gyorgy Konrad 275

Chapter 23 From Central Europe, Three Friends Remember / Eva Czjzek, Erzsebet Vezer, Gyorgy Litvan 281

Chapter 24 The Polanyis Discover a Poet / Gyorgy Bodnar, Ferenc Juhasz 288

Memories of Karl Polanyi in Vienna (1920-1936)

Chapter 25 The Early Formation of Karl Polanyi's Ideas / Eva Gabor 295

Chapter 26 I First Met Karl Polanyi in 1920 / Ilona Duczynska Polanyi 302

Chapter 27 Letter to a Friend, 1925 / Karl Polanyi 316

Chapter 28 Karl Polanyi, Oscar Jaszi, and the Becsi Magyar Ujsag / Janos Gyurgyak 319

Chapter 29 Editorial Meetings of the Oesterreichischer Volkswirt (1928) / Richard A. Bermann 325

Chapter 30 Vorgartenstrasse 203: Extracts from a Memoir / Felix Schaffer 328.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1551641429 :

1551641437

OCLC:

39913635