The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique - Brossura

Block, Fred; Somers, Margaret R.

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ISBN 10: 0674970888 ISBN 13: 9780674970885

Casa editrice: Harvard Univ Pr, 2016

Riassunto

What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and financial crises? The Power of Market Fundamentalism extends economist Karl Polanyi's work to explain why these dangerous utopian ideas have become the dominant economic ideology of our time.

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"Polanyi s analysis should be an invaluable resource for social scientists, policy makers, and intelligent citizens who are grappling to find better ways of interpreting the economic and social distress that grips so many formerly comfortable societies of the industrialized North. Block and Somers, who are the premier analysts of Polanyi s work, do a wonderful job of bringing this invaluable resource to bear on today s debates." --Peter Evans, University of California, Berkeley

"In seeking to understand the dynamics of our own time, we can do no better than to revisit Polanyi Block and Somers provide a thorough reprise of Polanyi for readers new to him and careful analysis for specialists. The best part of their book is its introductory chapter, a well-integrated and brisk summary of the man and his ideas. Other chapters provide useful discussions of what Polanyi s social history gets right and slightly wrong, as well as astute comparisons of Polanyi with Keynes and Marx As more of us are having second thoughts about the second coming of the primal market, it is as if Polanyi is somewhere in the ether. Rereading Polanyi at a time when events vindicate his vision, one has to be struck with the eerie contemporary ring. Polanyi is startlingly 21st-century in addressing how the private rule of global finance puts public policy in a straitjacket. --Robert Kuttner American Prospect (04/15/2014)

"Two of the smartest and most erudite sociologists at work today, Block and Somers deftly trace the biographical origins of Polanyi s ideas and elucidate the philosophical, historical, and economic literatures he alludes to. The result is a lucid, engaging, and often brilliant guidebook to The Great Transformation that shows just how much we need Polanyi today Everyone should be reading The Great Transformation these days. But first they should probably read The Power of Market Fundamentalism." --Frank Dobbin American Journal of Sociology (07/01/2015)

L'autore:

Fred Block is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis.

Margaret R. Somers is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Michigan.

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• Editore: Harvard Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0674970888
• ISBN 13: 9780674970885
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 296