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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 fundamen…
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 fundamen…
This volume shows how the major personal and historical events of Karl Polanyi's 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 p…
Introduction -- In the East-West salon -- Bearing the cross of war -- Triumph and tragedy of Red Vienna -- Challenges and responses -- The ctaclysm and its origins -- Injustices and inhumanities -- The precariousness of existence -- Epilogue: a lost world of socialism
This volume shows how the major personal and historical events of Karl Polanyi's 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 p…
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 fundamen…