Economic Transition in Historical Perspective
By: Charles Michael Andres Clark
Contributors: Rosicka, Janina
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Revivals
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9781315186528
Subjects: Economics; History; Social change; Philosophy; Économie politique; Histoire; Philosophie
Description: "This title was first published in 2001. This volume of essays studies the problem of transition in economics from a historical perspective. It uses historical ideas and theories in a modern context to examine economic thought. It aims to show that social and historical context are important when considering economic transitions."--Provided by publisher.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1 Plato on Topos, Economy and Transition; title: chapter 2 Karl Polanyi's Great Transformation and the Current Transformations in Central Europe; title: chapter 3 On Building up a Market Society: Lessons from the Wealth of Nations and The Great Transformation; title: chapter 4 Groundwork for an Institutional Economic Approach to 'Transition': Smith and Polanyi Reconsidered; title: chapter 5 The Money Fiction and Central Banking; title: chapter 6 Labour: A Fictitious Commodity Needs Instituted Power; title: chapter 7 Three Paths to Capitalism: An Agenda for Research; title: chapter 8 Friedrich von Hayek's Idea of Spontaneous Social Order and Transforming the Socialist Economy; title: chapter 9 Worldly Advice from Other-Worldly Philosophers: Catholic Social Thought and the Problem of Economic Transition; title: chapter 10 The Promotion of National Prosperity: The Case of Industrial Activities in Portugal in the Transition to Liberalism.