The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique

by Margaret R. Somers and Fred L. Block

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674970888
• ISBN13: 9780674970885
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"