The power of market fundamentalism : Karl Polanyi's critique /
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 w...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2014.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 became the dominant economic ideology of our time. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 296 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-285) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674416345 0674416341 |