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The power of market fundamentalism : Karl Polanyi's critique
- Title
- The power of market fundamentalism : Karl Polanyi's critique / Fred Block, Margaret R. Somers.
- Author
- Block, Fred L.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Somers, Margaret R.
- Description
- xii, 296 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and financial crises? <I>The Power of Market Fundamentalism </I>extends economist Karl Polanyi's work to explain why these dangerous utopian ideas have become the dominant economic ideology of our time.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-285) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780674050716 (alk. paper)
- 0674050711 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2013038788
- 11260648
- OCLC
- ocn859168694
- SCSB-9547829
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries