TY  - BOOK
AU  - Polanyi,Karl
TI  - The great transformation: the political and economic origins of our time 
SN  - 080705643X
AV  - HC53 .P6 2001
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Boston, MA
PB  - Beacon Press
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Social history
KW  - Economics
KW  - History
N1  - 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
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