Karl Polanyi : the limits of the market / Gareth Dale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dale, Gareth.

Series:

Key contemporary thinkers (Cambridge, England)

Key contemporary thinkers series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964.

Polanyi, Karl.

Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964. Great transformation.

Economics--Philosophy.

Economics.

Physical Description:

viii, 309 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, [2010]

Summary:

Part of the Key Contemporary Thinkers series, this work by Dale (Brunel U., UK) is a broadly sympathetic but critically-minded introduction to the work of social and economics theorist Karl Polyani. Dale has aimed for a comprehensive treatment of Polanyi's work, but has deferred discussion of his political and intellectual formation and his biography to a later book that is planned. Chapters address Polanyi's critique of capitalism and the associated theme of individual morality in an alienated social system; the contributions of The Great Transformation, which introduced the ideas for which Polanyi became known; Polanyi's theories on the institutionalization of trade, markets, and money in "archaic" empires; the ways in which Polanyi's works have been subsequently interpreted and applied, with a focus on the concepts of embeddedness and the double movement; and Polanyi's views on the rise of neoliberalism. Distributed in the US by Wiley. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780745640716

0745640710

0745640729

9780745640723

OCLC:

501399831