Great Transformations
Subtitle: Economic Ideas and Institutional Change in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 16, 2002
Place of publication: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780521010528
Subjects: Political economy; 20th century; Liberalism; Economics - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Sweden; Politics/International Relations; General; Political Science / General; Economic history; Economic Conditions; History; United States
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.
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: vii; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: xi; title: Theory
label: I; label: 1
pagenum: 3
title: Karl Polanyi and Institutional Change; label: 2
pagenum: 17
title: A Theory of Institutional Change; title: Cases
label: II; label: 3
pagenum: 49
title: Building American Embedded Liberalism; label: 4
pagenum: 96
title: Building Swedish Embedded Liberalism; label: 5
pagenum: 126
title: Disembedding Liberalism: Ideas to Break a Bargain; label: 6
pagenum: 152
title: Disembedding Liberralism in the United States; label: 7
pagenum: 202
title: Disembedding Liberalism in Sweden; title: Conclusion
label: III; label: 8
pagenum: 251
title: Conclusions; title: Index
pagenum: 277