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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Block, Fred L. (Autor), Somers, Margaret R. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Karl Polanyi and the power of ideas
  • Beyond the economistic fallacy
  • Karl Polanyi and the writing of the Great transformation
  • Turning the tables: Polanyi's critique of free market utopianism
  • In the shadow of Speenhamland: social policy and the old poor law
  • From poverty to perversity: ideational embeddedness and market fundamentalism over two centuries of welfare debate
  • The enduring strength of free market conservatism in the United States
  • The reality of society.