Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today

by Keith Hart

Book Overview

Karl Polanyi's 1944 book, The Great Transformation, offered a radical critique of how the market system has affected society and humanity since the industrial revolution. This volume brings together contributions from distinguished scholars in economic anthropology, sociology and political economy to consider Polanyi's theories in the light of circumstances today, when the relationship between market and society has again become a focus of intense...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521519659
• ISBN13: 9780521519656
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.0"