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The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi´s Critique
Fred Block
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Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: KC. Dimension: 160 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 358.
What is it about free-market ideas that give them tenacious staying power in the face of such manifest failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and the severe financial crises that have stressed Western economies over the past forty years? Fred Block and Margaret Somers extend the work of the great political economist Karl Polanyi to explain why these ideas have revived from disrepute in the wake of the Great Depression and World War II, to become the dominant economic ideology of our time. Polanyi contends that the free market championed by market liberals never actually existed. While ... Read more
What is it about free-market ideas that give them tenacious staying power in the face of such manifest failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and the severe financial crises that have stressed Western economies over the past forty years? Fred Block and Margaret Somers extend the work of the great political economist Karl Polanyi to explain why these ideas have revived from disrepute in the wake of the Great Depression and World War II, to become the dominant economic ideology of our time. Polanyi contends that the free market championed by market liberals never actually existed. While ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674970885
SKU
V9780674970885
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About Fred Block
Fred Block is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis. Margaret R. Somers is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Michigan.
Reviews for The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi´s Critique
Karl Polanyi's analysis should be an invaluable resource for social scientists, policy makers, and intelligent citizens who are grappling to find better ways of interpreting the economic and social distress that grips so many formerly comfortable societies of the industrialized North. Block and Somers, who are the premier analysts of Polanyi's work, do a wonderful job of bringing this invaluable ... Read more