The great transformation : the political and economic origins of our time / Karl Polanyi ; foreword by Joseph E. Stiglitz ; introduction by Fred Block

Originally published: New York : Farrar and Rinehart, 1944 and reprinted in 1957 by Beacon in Boston

Includes bibliographical references and index

-- The international system. The hundred years' peace Conservative twenties, revolutionary thirties -- Rise and fall of market economy. "Habitation versus improvement" Societies and economic systems Evolution of the market pattern The self-regulating market and the fictitious commodities: labor, land, and money Speenhamland, 1795 Antecedents and consequences Pauperism and utopia Political economy and the discovery of society -- Self-protection of society. Man, nature, and productive organization Birth of the liberal creed Birth of the liberal creed (continued): class interest and social change Market and man Market and nature Market and productive organization Self-regulation impaired Disruptive strains -- Transformation in progress. Popular government and market economy History in the gear of social change Freedom in a complex society -- Balance of power as policy, historical law, principle, and system -- Hundred years' peace -- The snapping of the golden thread -- Swings of the pendulum after World War I -- Finance and peace -- Selected references to "societies and economic systems" -- Selected references to "evolution of the market pattern" -- The literature of Speenhamland -- Poor law and the organization of labor -- Speenhamland and Vienna -- Why not Whitbread's bill? -- Disraeli's "two nations" and the problem of colored races