Great Transformations
Subtitle: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521811767
Subjects: Political economy; 20th century; Political Science; General; Politics / Current Events; United States; Politics/International Relations; Sweden; Political Science / General; Economic history; Economic Conditions; History; Liberalism
First sentence: While Polanyi's description of the economic disorder caused by the self-regulating market still has great resonance, his prediction of that same market's denouement seems precipitous, at least with the benefit of hindsight.