Title: The power of market fundamentalism : Karl Polanyi's critique /
Authors: Block, Fred L.; Somers, Margaret R.; Somers, Margaret R.,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Polanyi, Karl,; Economics Sociological aspects History.; Free enterprise History; Economics History; Economics Sociological aspects History.
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.