Karl Polanyi is one of the most influential social scientists of our era. This handbook provides a comprehensive of recent research on Polanyi's work and ideas, including the central place…

At a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, it was reported that a ghost was haunting the deliberations of the assembled global elite D that of the…

A biography that connects the theorist’s maverick intellect and political commitments to the turbulent times in which he lived.

In Karl Polanyi’s Vision of a Socialist Transformation Michael Brie and Claus Thomasberger provide an essential introduction to the contemporary importance of Polanyi’s thinking on freedom, community, and the socialist…

Karl Polanyi believed that the greatest threat to freedom was a poorly administered economy. Divided into two parts, this book features collected papers on The Great Transformation and a selection…

Using Karl Polanyi’s analysis of the separation of politics and the economy, the book argues that the market economy is not a spontaneous process, but a ‘political project’ realized through…

A fresh look at how three important twentieth-century British thinkers viewed capitalism through a moral rather than material lens What’s wrong with capitalism? Answers to that question today focus on…