List of figures and table page vii List of contributors ix 1 Introduction: Learning from Polanyi 11 keith hart and chris hann; 2 Necessity or contingency: Mutuality and market 17 stephen gudeman; 3 The great transformation of embeddedness: Karl Polanyi and the new economic sociology 38 jens beckert; 4 The critique of the economic point of view: Karl Polanyi and the Durkheimians 56 philippe steiner; 5 Toward an alternative economy: Reconsidering the market, money, and value 72 jean-michel servet; 6 Money in the making of world society 91 keith hart; 7 Debt, violence, and impersonal markets: Polanyian meditations 106 david graeber; 8 Whatever happened to householding? 133 chris Gregory; 9 Contesting The Great Transformation: Work in comparative perspective 160 gerd spittle; 10 “Sociological Marxism” in Central India: Polanyi, Gramsci, and the case of the unions 175 jonathan parry; 11 Composites, fictions, and risk: toward an ethnography of price 203 jane i. guyer; 12 Illusions of freedom: Polanyi and the third sector 221 catherine alexander; 13 Market and economy in environmental conservation in Jamaica 240 james g. carrier; 14 Embedded socialism? Land, labour, and money in eastern Xinjiang 256 chris hann; 15 Afterword: Learning from Polanyi 2 272 don robotham; Bibliography 284; Index 313