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The Economic Thought of Karl Polanyi. Lives and Livelihood.
James Ronald Stanfield
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Description for The Economic Thought of Karl Polanyi. Lives and Livelihood.
Hardback. Num Pages: 172 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 375.
The democratic industrial societies face a deeply-rooted institutional crisis. The accepted ways and means of living lead to frustration and anxiety rather than creativity and joy. The roots of this crisis are political and economic. These societies contain economies that pervert and obstruct the human life process and polities that are subordinate to economic vested interests. Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian emigr�ho witnessed first hand the cataclysms to which this political economic crisis can lead. He created a powerful social economic theory to analyze this institutional impasse and lay the foundation for social reconstruction. This book reviews Polanyi's life and ... Read more
The democratic industrial societies face a deeply-rooted institutional crisis. The accepted ways and means of living lead to frustration and anxiety rather than creativity and joy. The roots of this crisis are political and economic. These societies contain economies that pervert and obstruct the human life process and polities that are subordinate to economic vested interests. Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian emigr�ho witnessed first hand the cataclysms to which this political economic crisis can lead. He created a powerful social economic theory to analyze this institutional impasse and lay the foundation for social reconstruction. This book reviews Polanyi's life and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
Number of Pages
162
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333396292
SKU
V9780333396292
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About James Ronald Stanfield
J.R. Stanfield is Professor of Economics at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. He earned his doctorate at the University of Oklahoma after taking earlier degrees at the University of Texas, Arlington. He is active in the Association for Social Economics, the Association for Evolutionary Economics, and the Democratic Socialists of America. He has published widely in professional journals and is ... Read more
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