For a New West: Essays, 1919-1958 - Brossura

Polanyi, Karl

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ISBN 10: 0745684440 ISBN 13: 9780745684444

Casa editrice: Polity, 2014

Riassunto

In this new collection of unpublished texts – lectures, draft essays and reports written between 1919 and 1958 – Polanyi examines the collapse of the liberal economic order and the demise of democracies in the inter-war years. To understand the profound challenges faced by our democracies today, we need to revisit history and revisit his work.

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Recensione:

This collection of Polanyi's writings addresses his significance for the world today more completely than any other. We encounter him here as an essayist, lecturer, social theorist and above all as an engaged public intellectual. The selection speaks very directly to our own concerns: on economy, history and freedom; on institutionalism as a method; on general economic history; on world crisis and transformation. This really is a Polanyi for our times.
Keith Hart, London School of Economics
 

I am delighted to see the publication of this collection of writings (many unpublished) of Karl Polanyi over a very long period. It is more than welcome. Karl Polanyi is one of a very rare breed - important thinkers who are always intelligent, incisive, and wide-ranging, and who ground their arguments in a deep knowledge of history. Even when one disagrees with him, one has to take his views into account, lest you miss out on a long-term perspective.
 
I peresonally was profoundly affected by his marvelous book, The Great Transformation, both for its substantive arguments and its epistemological framework. That Polanyi is having a revival today is one of the most encouraging things about the current epoch.
Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University

L'autore:

Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was one of the most influential political economists of recent times. His book The Great Transformation is generally acclaimed as being among the most important works of economic history in the twentieth century.

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• Editore: Polity
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0745684440
• ISBN 13: 9780745684444
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 276