Geographies of Global Change
Subtitle: Remapping the World
Contributors: R. J. Johnston (Editor); Michael Watts (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: July 15, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780631222866
First sentence: Over a half century ago in his magnificent book The Great Transformation, Karl Polanyi (1944) pointed to the costs and consequences of unfettered free trade in a world market and to what he called the "tremendous hazards of planetary interdependence" (ibid: 53).