Reconstructing Karl Polanyi

Author : Gareth Dale
Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Economics
ISBN : 1783717920

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Reconstructing Karl Polanyi by Gareth Dale Pdf

"Karl Polanyi's contribution to political economy and social science is immeasurable. In Reconstructing Karl Polanyi, Gareth Dale provides a sweeping survey of his contributions to the social sciences. An opponent of traditional economics and a believer in economics' contingency to society and culture, Polanyi's work has a cross-disciplinary appeal, finding popularity in anthropology, economic history, economic sociology and political science. Paradoxical formulations, such as 'liberal socialist' and 'cosmopolitan patriot', are often used to describe Polanyi's intellectual and political vision. In exploring these paradoxes, Dale draws upon original writings and transcripts to reconstruct Polanyi's views on a range of topics long neglected in critical literature; including the history of antiquity, the evolution and dynamics of Stalin's Russia, McCarthyism and Polanyi's critical dialogue with Marxism. Accompanying the reconstruction of his work is Dale's analysis of Polanyi's relevance to current issues, notably the 'clash' between democracy and capitalism, and the nature and trajectory of European unification."--Provided by publisher.

Author : John Vail
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000569858

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Karl Polanyi and the Paradoxes of the Double Movement by John Vail Pdf

This book offers a critical reconstruction of the double movement, the central thesis of Karl Polanyi’s The Great Transformation, one of the most influential books of the 20th century. The double movement is the establishment of a free market economy and the subsequent effort by society to ameliorate the destructive effects of the market. In Polanyi’s bold vision, the double movement constituted the hidden gear of social change and historical transformation within capitalism. The book is a forensic examination and critique of Polanyi’s argument. It develops an interpretive framework of the double movement as four interrelated social processes: the establishment of the self-regulating market, the rise of a market society that deepens and extends market imperatives, a social protection phase that constrains the market and safeguards society, and the contradictions and crises that result from this clash of social principles. The book will be an indispensable guide for students and scholars across the social sciences which illuminates the relevance of Polanyi’s insights to a critical understanding of the contemporary era –the scourge of insecurity and inequality, the multiple crises of neoliberalism, the rise of right wing populism- as well as those interested in egalitarian and emancipatory alternatives to capitalism.

Author : Karl Polanyi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509523344

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Economy and Society: Selected Writings by Karl Polanyi Pdf

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.

Author : Brie Michael Brie
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551646053

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Karl Polanyi In Dialogue by Brie Michael Brie Pdf

The contemporary Left fights its political battles on various fronts: protesting the crippling structural inequalities that sustain neoliberal economic policy; developing sustainable, community-based alternatives to the consumerism and short-termism that exacerbate the environmental crisis; and advocating for the cultural recognition, emancipation and celebration of the diversity and pluralism of human identity. But despite this versatility the Left appears to be in worldwide retreat whilst an aggressive new 'Alt-Right' is taking to the internet and the streets, regurgitating a regressive and patriarchal vision of society that has already won startling political victories in the US and Europe.Amidst the vertiginous tension of such a crisis, Michael Brie argues for an urgent theoretical and practical reorganisation of the Left. Developing the work of philosopher and social theorist Karl Polanyi, Brie advocates an alliance of socialist liberals and libertarian 'commonists' that unites contemporary campaigns for recognition, difference and human dignity with more traditional struggles for social welfare and economic democracy. Starting with Nancy Fraser's critical reappraisal of Polanyi in her article "e;A Triple Movement? Parsing the Politics of Crisis after Polanyi"e; (included), Brie powerfully reinterprets Polanyi's thought for present times, developing concrete proposals for a Polanyian political response to neoliberalism, an ascendent authoritarian right and the ongoing threat of global ecological disaster. Also included are two articles by Polanyi translated into English for the first time and Kari Polanyi-Levitt's lecture at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation "e;From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialisation"e;.

Author : Gareth Dale
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231541480

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Karl Polanyi by Gareth Dale Pdf

Karl Polanyi (1886–1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy. His penetrating analysis of globalization's disruptions and the Great Depression's underlying causes still serves as an effective counterargument to free market fundamentalism. This biography shows how the major personal and historical events of his life transformed him from a bourgeois radical into a Christian socialist but also informed his ambivalent stance on social democracy, communism, the New Deal, and the shifting intellectual scene of postwar America. The book begins with Polanyi's childhood in the Habsburg Empire and his involvement with the Great War and Hungary's postwar revolution. It connects Polanyi's idealistic radicalism to the political promise and intellectual ferment of Red Vienna and the horror of fascism. The narrative revisits Polanyi's oeuvre in English, German, and Hungarian, includes exhaustive research in five archives, and features interviews with Polanyi's daughter, students, and colleagues, clarifying the contradictory aspects of the thinker's work. These personal accounts also shed light on Polanyi's connections to scholars, Christians, atheists, journalists, hot and cold warriors, and socialists of all stripes. Karl Polanyi: A Life on the Left engages with Polanyi's biography as a reflection and condensation of extraordinary times. It highlights the historical ruptures, tensions, and upheavals that the thinker sought to capture and comprehend and, in telling his story, engages with the intellectual and political history of a turbulent epoch.

Author : Brie Michael Brie
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781551646398

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Karl Polanyi's Vision of a Socialist Transformation by Brie Michael Brie Pdf

The political and economic turmoil that followed our most recent financial crisis has sparked a huge resurgence of interest in the work of Karl Polanyi (1886-1964), famous anthropologist, economist, and social philosopher. Polanyi's 1944 masterpiece, The Great Transformation, spoke of dangerous increasing dominance of the market and the resulting counter-movements, a prediction that has been borne out by current international grassroots resistance to austerity, alienation, and environmental upheaval of our world. In Karl Polanyi's Vision of a Socialist Transformation, German social and economic philosophers Michael Brie and Claus Thomasberger bring together central figures in in the field-including Gareth Dale, Nancy Fraser, and Kari Polanyi Levitt-to provide an essential anthology on the contemporary importance of Polanyi's thought. This book is centered around Polanyi's ideas on freedom and community in a complex socialist society based on a completely transformed economy. It also includes five 1920s essays by Polanyi recently discovered in the Montreal Polanyi archive and translated into English for the first time, including his lecture "e;On Freedom"e;, which is central to his unique understanding of socialism.

Author : J. Ron Stanfield
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986-10-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038377284

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The Economic Thought of Karl Polanyi by J. Ron Stanfield Pdf

The democratic industrial societies face a deeply-rooted institutional crisis. The accepted ways and means of living lead to frustration and anxiety rather than creativity and joy. The roots of this crisis are political and economic. These societies contain economies that pervert and obstruct the human life process and polities that are subordinate to economic vested interests. Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian emigrho witnessed first hand the cataclysms to which this political economic crisis can lead. He created a powerful social economic theory to analyze this institutional impasse and lay the foundation for social reconstruction. This book reviews Polanyi's life and work, his contributions to the methodology of economics, his concepts of social integration, his theory of market capitalism, and his view of freedom in complex industrial societies.

Author : Kari Levitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015021861045

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The Life and Work of Karl Polanyi by Kari Levitt Pdf

This book developes Karl Polanyi's thinking for its significance in the practice of economics and everyday life in democratic societies, and also treats the life of Polanyi from a perspective that conveys an impression of the man, his times, and his place in the evolution of social and economic thought. Karl Polanyi believed that the greatest threat to freedom was a poorly administered economy. His search for economic and political institutions which reconciled society's need for freedom to develop a moral sense, with the requirements of our complex technological civilization, led him to believe in the possibility and necessity of an economics that was more existential and human-centred. He did not underestimate the significance of livelihood to lives. He emphasized nonetheless tht beyond sufficient livelihood, preoccupation with the pursuit of even more economic wealth greatly erodes the quality of human existence.

Author : Gareth Dale,Christopher Holmes,Maria Markantonatou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Economics
ISBN : 1788210891

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Karl Polanyi's Political and Economic Thought by Gareth Dale,Christopher Holmes,Maria Markantonatou Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to Karl Polanyi's work by examining the key themes that run throughout his work. Each chapter introduces the relevant aspects of Polanyi's writings and highlights the connections that Polanyi has with contemporary issues and debates.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-02
Category : Duczynska, Ilona
ISBN : 1551645424

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Karl Polanyi in Vienna by Anonim Pdf

Karl Polanyi's belief that the greatest threat to freedom was a poorly administered economy led him to an economics that was more existential and human-centered. Part I of this book develops Polanyi's thinking for its significance today through a selection of papers on re-reading his major work entitled "The Great Transformation," Part II looks at the life and work of Ilona Duczynska (Polanyi's wife), political activist, writer and translator and important influence over Karl and his work. Kenneth McRobbie, a poet and historian who teaches at the University of British Columbia, is the editor of "Humanity, Society and Commitment," Kari Polanyi Levitt, emeritus professor at McGill University, is the editor of "The Life and Work of Karl Polanyi,"

Author : Karl Polanyi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0333619609

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Uncollected Works of Karl Polanyi by Karl Polanyi Pdf

Author : Chris Hann
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789633862889

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Repatriating Polanyi by Chris Hann Pdf

Karl Polanyi’s “substantivist” critique of market society has found new popularity in the era of neoliberal globalization. The author reclaims this polymath for contemporary anthropology, especially economic anthropology, in the context of Central Europe, where Polanyi (1886–1964) grew up. The Polanyian approach illuminates both the communist era, in particular the “market socialist” economy which evolved under János Kádár in Hungary, as well as the post-communist transformations of property relations, civil society and ethno-national identities throughout the region. Hann’s analyses are based primarily on his own ethnographic investigations in Hungary and South-East Poland. They are pertinent to the rise of neo-nationalism in those countries, which is theorized as a malign countermovement to the domination of the market. At another level, Hann’s adaptation of Polanyi’s social philosophy points beyond current political turbulence to an original concept of “social Eurasia”.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1788212746

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KARL POLANYI'S POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC THOUGHT by Anonim Pdf

Author : Radhika Desai,Kari Polanyi Levitt
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781526127907

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Karl Polanyi and twenty-first-century capitalism by Radhika Desai,Kari Polanyi Levitt Pdf

As far right movements, social disintegration and international conflict emerge from the decay of the neoliberal order, Karl Polanyi’s warnings against the unbridled domination of markets, is ever more relevant. The essays in Karl Polanyi for the 21st Century extend the boundaries of our understanding of Polanyi's life and work. They will interest Polanyi scholars and all interested in socialism and our future after neoliberalism. One asks whether, following Keynes and Hayek, Polanyi’s ideas will shape the twenty-first century. Some clarify, for the meaning of money as a fictitious commodity. Others resolve difficulties in understanding the building blocks of Polanyi's thought: fictitious commodities, the double movement, the United States' exceptional development, the reality of society, and socialism as freedom in a complex society. And yes others explore how Polanyi sheds light on income inequality, world systems theory, comparative political economy.

Author : Nancy Fraser,Kari Polanyi-Levitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 155164603X

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Karl Polanyi in Dialogue by Nancy Fraser,Kari Polanyi-Levitt Pdf

Michael Brie powerfully reinterprets Karl Polanyi's thought for present times, developing concrete proposals for a Polanyian political response to neoliberalism, an ascendant authoritarian right and the ongoing threat of global ecological disaster. Features essays by Nancy Fraser, Karl Polanyi and Kari-Polanyi Levitt.