Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy

by Martijn Konings

Revisiting the magnetic poles of Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek on the utopian springs of political economy, this book seeks to provide a compass for questioning the market economy of the twenty-first century.

For Polanyi, in The Great Transformation, the utopian springs of the dogma of liberalism existed within the extension of the market mechanism to the 'fictitious commodities' of land, labour, and money. There was nothing natural...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367546272
• ISBN13: 9780367546274
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.7"