Karl Polanyi

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 Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

The Great Transformation

Essays of Karl Polanyi.

Primitive, Archaic, and Modern Economies

essays, 1919-1958

For a new West

A grande transformação analisa, com um olhar inovador e criativo, a formação da economia capitalista de mercado. Neste livro, Polanyi desvenda os processos através dos quais o mercado separou-se das demais instituições sociais, até se tornar uma esfera autônoma, “autorregulável , que pretende dominar o resto da sociedade pela transformação do trabalho, da terra e do dinheiro em mercadoria – em uma análise comparativa que enfatiza o caráter singular e destrutivo da moderna economia de mercado. Integrando contribuições da História, da Antropologia e da Economia Política, este livro é um trabalho magistral, constituindo-se em leitura indispensável para todos os interessados em Ciências Sociais.

As Origens da Nossa Época

A Grande Transformação

เมื่อโลกพลิกผัน

Los límites del mercado

Few figures are more crucial to understanding the upheavals of our contemporary era than Karl Polanyi. In a world riven by social and economic crises, from rising inequality to the decay of democratic institutions and profound technological disruption, Polanyi’s path-breaking account of the dynamics of market capitalism and his defence of society and nature against the dangerous tendencies of the market capitalist system are more relevant than ever. This book brings together Polanyi’s most important articles and essays to give a unique selection of his essential shorter writings, mixing classic texts with significant but previously little-known pieces. It highlights the coherence and richness of Polanyi’s theoretical and political approach, making it indispensable for understanding his overarching intellectual contribution. The volume includes his interwar writings, which deal with the world economic crisis and the socialist alternative to conservative and fascist developments; his reflection on political theory and the international situation after the war; and his comparative studies of economic institutions. Polanyi’s political writings are complemented and supported by the critique of economic determinism and what he termed ‘our obsolete market mentality’. This book is an invaluable companion to Polanyi’s masterpiece, The Great Transformation, and an essential resource for students and scholars of political economy, sociology, history and political philosophy.

Economy and Society: Selected Writings

El sistema internacional : la paz de los cien años - Los años veinte conservadores, los treinta revolucionarios - Ascenso y declinación de la economía de mercado : el molino satánico - La autoprotección de la sociedad - La transformación en progreso : el gobierno popular y la economía de mercado - La historia en el momento del cambio social - La libertad en una sociedad compleja.

los orígenes políticos y económicos de nuestro tiempo

La gran transformación

At a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, it was reported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of the assembled global elite - that of the renowned social scientist and economic historian, Karl Polanyi. In his classic work, The Great Transformation, Polanyi documented the impact of the rise of market society on western civilization and captured better than anyone else the destructive effects of the economic, political and social crisis of the 1930s. Today, in the throes of another Great Recession, Polanyi’s work has gained a new significance. To understand the profound challenges faced by our democracies today, we need to revisit history and revisit his work. 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. He takes up again the fundamental question that preoccupied him throughout his work - the place of the economy in society - and aims to show how we might return to an economy anchored in society and its cultural, religious and political institutions. For anyone concerned about the danger to democracy and social life posed by the unleashing of capital from regulatory control and the dominance of the neoliberal ideologies of market fundamentalism, this important new volume by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century is a must-read.

Essays, 1919-1958

For a New West

In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewed importance of Polanyi's seminal analysis in an era of globalization and free trade.

"A collection of Karl Polanyi's Hungarian writings translated in English for the first time"-

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