Karl Polanyi by Dale, Gareth -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Key Contemporary Thinkers series Title page Copyright page Preface Abbreviations Dedication Introduction 1 The economics and ethics of socialism

Responsibility and ‘overview’: the socialist accounting debate Critique and rejoinder The subjugation of moral ends to economic means Towards a synthesis of communism and Christianity

2 The Great Transformation

The Liberal Century: contradictions of a golden age Birth of the market economy Malthus, Ricardo and Speenhamland Marketization and its backwash Disruptive strains and the end of elasticity The originality of The Great Transformation Some criticisms of the conceptual framework Some criticisms of the historical argument

3 The descent of economic man

Homo oeconomicus communisticus The debate over methods From marginalism to formalism Two meanings of economic Mechanisms of integration Inconsistencies and ambiguities The formalist rejoinder Marxist interpositions The debate scatters and dissolves

4 Trade, markets and money in archaic societies

Introduction: the oikos debate ‘Primitive’ and archaic trade, markets and money Ancient Mesopotamia: three theses Mesopotamia: evaluation and critique Trade and markets in Bronze and Iron Age Greece Greece: evaluation and critique West Africa: Dahomey, Whydah and Tivland Dahomey and the Tiv: evaluation and critique From Meso-America to rural India via the Berber Highlands Conclusion

5 ‘Disembedded’ and ‘always embedded’ economies

Embeddedness: a genealogy Further adventures of a concept Embeddedness and decommodification in the mid-twentieth century

6 At the brink of a ‘great transformation’? Neoliberalism and the countermovement today

Explaining the neoliberal ascendancy Alternative futures: participatory planning and the mixed economy No dearth of countermovements Pendular forces The Great Oscillation Reflections on the current predicament

Conclusion

A liberal anti-communist? A Marxist? A Romantic? Tribute and critique

References Index

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