Market and Society: The Great Transformation Today
- ISBN-10
- 0511538146
- ISBN-13
- 9780511538148
- Category
- Markets
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Authors
- Keith Hart, C. M. Hann
Description
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 scholars in economic anthropology, sociology and political economy to consider Polanyi's theories in light of circumstances today.
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- 2011-06-30
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