| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) |
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Karl Polanyi and the power of ideas -- Beyond the economistic fallacy -- Karl Polanyi and the writing of the Great transformation -- Turning the tables: Polanyi's critique of free market utopianism -- In the shadow of Speenhamland: social policy and the old poor law -- From poverty to perversity: ideational embeddedness and market fundamentalism over two centuries of welfare debate -- The enduring strength of free market conservatism in the United States -- The reality of society |
| Summary |
What is it about free-market ideas that give them tenacious staying power in the face of such manifest failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and the severe financial crises that have stressed Western economies over the past forty years? Fred Block and Margaret Somers extend the work of the great political economist Karl Polanyi to explain why these ideas have became the dominant economic ideology of our time |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-285) and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964.
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| SUBJECT |
Polanyi, Karl, 1886-1964 fast |
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Polanyi, Karl 1886-1964 gnd |
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Free enterprise -- History
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Economics -- History.
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Economics -- Sociological aspects -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
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Economics.
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Economics
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Economics -- Sociological aspects
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Free enterprise
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Marktwirtschaft
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Liberalismus
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Politische Ökonomie
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Wirtschaft
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Fri företagsamhet -- historia.
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Ekonomi -- historia.
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Economics.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Somers, Margaret R., author.
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| ISBN |
9780674416345 |
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0674416341 |
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