Market and society : the great transformation today /
Market & Society
edited by Chris Hann and Keith Hart.
- 1 online resource (xi, 320 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Introduction : Learning from Polanyi 1 / Necessity or contingency : mutuality and market / The great transformation of embeddedness : Karl Polanyi and the new economic sociology / The critique of the economic point of view : Karl Polanyi and the Durkheimians / Towards an alternative economy : reconsidering the market, money and value / Money in the making of world society / Debt, violence and impersonal markets : Polanyian meditations / Whatever happened to householding? / Contesting The Great Transformation : work in comparative perspective / 'Sociological Marxism' in Central India : Polanyi, Gramsci and the case of the unions / Composites, fictions and risk : towards an ethnography of price / Illusions of freedom : Polanyi and the third sector / Market and economy in environmental conservation in Jamaica / Embedded socialism? Land, labour and money in eastern Xinjiang / Afterword : Learning from Polanyi 2 / Keith Hart and Chris Hann -- Stephen Gudeman -- Jens Beckert -- Philippe Steiner -- Jean-Michel Servet -- Keith Hart -- David Graeber -- Chris Gregory -- Gerd Spittler -- Jonathan Parry -- Jane I. Guyer -- Catherine Alexander -- James G. Carrier -- Chris Hann -- Don Robotham.
Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation, offered a radical critique of how the market system has affected society and humanity since the industrial revolution. This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in economic anthropology, sociology and political economy to consider Polanyi's theories in the light of circumstances today, when the relationship between market and society has again become a focus of intense political and scientific debate. It demonstrates the relevance of Polanyi's ideas to various theoretical traditions in the social sciences and provides perspectives on topics such as money, risk, work and the family. The case studies present materials from around the world, including Britain, China, India, Jamaica and Nigeria. Like Polanyi's original work, the critical engagement of these essays will be of interest to a wide readership.