Market and society : the great transformation today / edited by Chris Hann and Keith Hart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hann, C. M., 1953- editor.

Hart, Keith, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964.

Polanyi, Karl.

Markets--Social aspects--History.

Markets.

Social history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Market & Society

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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 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.

Contents:

Introduction : Learning from Polanyi 1 / Keith Hart and Chris Hann

Necessity or contingency : mutuality and market / Stephen Gudeman

The great transformation of embeddedness : Karl Polanyi and the new economic sociology / Jens Beckert

The critique of the economic point of view : Karl Polanyi and the Durkheimians / Philippe Steiner

Towards an alternative economy : reconsidering the market, money and value / Jean-Michel Servet

Money in the making of world society / Keith Hart

Debt, violence and impersonal markets : Polanyian meditations / David Graeber

Whatever happened to householding? / Chris Gregory

Contesting The Great Transformation : work in comparative perspective / Gerd Spittler

'Sociological Marxism' in Central India : Polanyi, Gramsci and the case of the unions / Jonathan Parry

Composites, fictions and risk : towards an ethnography of price / Jane I. Guyer

Illusions of freedom : Polanyi and the third sector / Catherine Alexander

Market and economy in environmental conservation in Jamaica / James G. Carrier

Embedded socialism? Land, labour and money in eastern Xinjiang / Chris Hann

Afterword : Learning from Polanyi 2 / Don Robotham.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-107-19203-X

1-282-15564-4

9786612155642

0-511-58138-6

0-511-53897-9

0-511-54074-4

0-511-54040-X

0-511-53814-6

0-511-53981-9

OCLC:

609840537