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

By: Publication details: Boston, MA : Beacon Press, 2001.Edition: 2nd Beacon Paperback edDescription: xli, 317 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 080705643X (pa : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.9 POL 21
LOC classification:
  • HC53 .P6 2001
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Contents:
Description : As the Second World War was drawing to a close in 1944, two great works of political economy were published. One was Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, the driving force behind the free-market revolution in the final quarter of the twentieth century. The other was Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation. . . . [It] is well worth reading. -Larry Elliott, The Guardian "[The Great Transformation] did more than any work of that generation to broaden and deepen the critique of market societies."-John Buell, The Progressive
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BOOKs BOOKs National Law School MPP Section 330.9 POL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 36590

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description :
As the Second World War was drawing to a close in 1944, two great works of political economy were published. One was Hayek's The Road to Serfdom, the driving force behind the free-market revolution in the final quarter of the twentieth century. The other was Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation. . . . [It] is well worth reading. -Larry Elliott, The Guardian "[The Great Transformation] did more than any work of that generation to broaden and deepen the critique of market societies."-John Buell, The Progressive

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