Polanyi For a New West

Essays, 1919-1958
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8445-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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At a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, it wasreported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of theassembled global elite - that of the renowned social scientist andeconomic historian, Karl Polanyi.
In his classic work, The Great Transformation, Polanyidocumented the impact of the rise of market society on westerncivilization and captured better than anyone else the destructiveeffects of the economic, political and social crisis of the 1930s.Today, in the throes of another Great Recession, Polanyi'swork has gained a new significance. To understand the profoundchallenges faced by our democracies today, we need to revisithistory and revisit his work.
In this new collection of unpublished texts - lectures, draftessays and reports written between 1919 and 1958 - Polanyi examinesthe collapse of the liberal economic order and the demise ofdemocracies in the inter-war years. He takes up again thefundamental question that preoccupied him throughout his work - theplace of the economy in society - and aims to show how we mightreturn to an economy anchored in society and its cultural,religious and political institutions.
For anyone concerned about the danger to democracy and social lifeposed by the unleashing of capital from regulatory control and thedominance of the neoliberal ideologies of market fundamentalism,this important new volume by one of the great thinkers of thetwentieth century is a must-read.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Polanyi, Karl

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface by Kari Polanyi Levitt
Introduction by Giorgio Resta
I. Economy, technology and the problem of freedom
1. For a new West
2. Economic and freedom to shape our social destiny
3. Economic history and the problem of freedom
4. New frontiers of economic thinking
II. Institutions matter
5. The contribution of institutional analysis to the social sciences
6. The nature of International understanding
7. The meaning of peace
8. The roots of pacifism
9. Culture in a democratic England of the future
10. America
III. How to make use of the social sciences
11. How to make use of the social sciences
12. On political theory
13. Public opinion and statesmanship
14. General economic history
15. Market elements and economic planning in antiquity
IV. Crisis and transformation
16. What matters now. A reply.
17. Conflicting philosophies in modern society
18. The eclipse of panic and the outlook for socialism
19. The passing of 19th century civilization
20. The trend towards an integrated society
Postface by Mariavittoria Catanzariti

Über Autor(innen)

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.