The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time
As the Second World War was drawing to a close in 1944, two great works of political economy were published. One was Hayek'sThe Road to Serfdom,the driving force behind the free-market revolution in the final quarter of the twentieth century. The other was Karl Polanyi'sThe Great Transformation. . . . [It] is well worth reading. -Larry Elliott,The Guardian"[The Great Transformation] did more than any work of that generation to broaden and deepen the critique of market societies. --."-John Buell,The Progressive."-John Buell,The Progressive--This text refers to theHardcoveredition.