Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century

Market Economy as a Political Project

  • Ayşe Buğra
  • Kaan Ağartan
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Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction
      Ayşe Buğra
      Pages 1-10

  3. Reflections on Disembeddedness: Welfare State and Beyond

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 11-11
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    2. Suppressing the Double Movement to Secure the Dictatorship of Finance
      Manfred Bienefeld
      Pages 13-31
    3. The 1970s and After: The Political Economy of Inflation and the Crisis of Social Democracy
      Pat Devine
      Pages 33-47
    4. The Slight Transformation: Contesting the Legacy of Karl Polanyi
      Hannes Lacher
      Pages 49-64

  4. Commodity Fiction in Contemporary Market Economies (1): Work Today

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 65-65
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    2. Labor Recommodification in the Global Transformation
      Guy Standing
      Pages 67-93
    3. The Right to Work, Way of Social Exclusion? Basic Income as a Guarantee to the Right to Work
      José Luis, Rey Pérez
      Pages 95-111

  5. Commodity Fiction in Contemporary Market Economies (2): Knowledge Today

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 113-113
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    2. Knowledge as a Fictitious Commodity: Insights and Limits of a Polanyian Perspective
      Bob Jessop
      Pages 115-133
    3. Commercialization of Science in a Neoliberal World
      Gürol Irzık
      Pages 135-153
    4. Intellectual Property: Commodification and Its Discontents
      Virginia Brown-Keyder
      Pages 155-170

  6. Patterns of Resistance and Adaptation

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 171-171
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    2. Polanyi’s Concept of Double Movement and Politics in the Contemporary Market Society
      Ayşe Buğra
      Pages 173-189
    3. Reforming East Asian Labor Systems: China, Korea, and Thailand
      Frederic C. Deyo, Kaan Ağartan
      Pages 191-218
    4. The Strong Embrace of Weak Actors: Explaining Social Support for Economic Liberalization through the Case Study of Small Business Associations in the European Union
      Kevin Young
      Pages 219-233
    5. Corporate Social Responsibility and Market Society: Credit and Banking Inclusion in Brazil
      Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, José Ricardo Barbosa Gonçalves
      Pages 235-253
    6. Conclusion
      Ayşe Buğra, Kaan Ağartan
      Pages 255-259
  7. Back Matter
    Pages 261-267
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About this book

Introduction

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 institutional change where labour, land, money, and currently knowledge are commodities. The contributions explore the impact of this commodification process.

Keywords

Inflation money welfare

Authors and affiliations

  • Ayşe Buğra
    • 1
  • Kaan Ağartan
    • 2
  1. 1.IstanbulTurkey
  2. 2.BinghamtonUSA

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