Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy. His penetrating analysis of globalization's disruptions and the Great Depression's underlying causes still serves as an effective counterargument to free market fundamentalism. This biograph[...]

Karl Polanyi was one of the most influential political economists of the twentieth century and is widely regarded as the most gifted of social democratic theorists. In Reconstructing Karl Polanyi, Gareth Dale, one of the foremost scholars of Polanyi, provides a sweeping survey of his contributions t[...]

Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation is generally acclaimed as being among the most influential works of economic history in the twentieth century, and remains as vital in the current historical conjuncture as it was in his own. In its critique of nineteenth-century "market fundamentalism" it r[...]

Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was one of the most influential political economists and economic historians of the last 100 years. His book The Great Transformation, which deals with the emergence of modern market societies, is a modern classic and is widely used and discussed in sociology, anthropology, [...]

One of the twentieth century's most thorough and discerning historians, Karl Polanyi sheds "new illumination on . . . the social implications of a particular economic system, the market economy that grew into full stature in the nineteenth century." -R. M. MacIver[...]

The patterns and impact of globalisation have become a common concern of all international jurists, sociologists, political scientists and philosophers. Many have observed the erosion of the powers of nation states and the emergence of new transnational governance regimes, and have sought to underst[...]

Denna bok är den klassiska skildringen av det liberala marknadssamhällets uppgång och fall från slutet av 1700-talet till det andra världskriget ("The great transformation", ursprungligen utgiven 1944). "Den stora omdaningen" avser den omvälvning av samhällslivet som ekonomins tillväxt och f[...]