The Legacy of Karl Polanyi: Market, State and Society at the End of the Twentieth Century

Introduction; M.Mendell & D.Sal e - I THE GREAT TRANSFORMATION: FORTY YEARS LATER - Karl Polanyi and the Contradictions of the 1980s; M.Bienefeld - II PROBLEMS OF METHOD: THE ECONOMISTIC FALLACY - Market, State and Society as Codes of Moral Obligation; A.Wolfe - The Crisis of the Welfare State: Lessons from Karl Polanyi; B.McClintock & R.Stanfield - Karl Polanyi's Post Marxist Critical Theory; T.Schroyer - Contradictions of Self-Regulating Markets; F.Block - III THE LIMITS OF THE MARKET - Human Body as a Commodity: Universal Values and Market Truths; G.Berthoud - The Self-Regulating State; J.Godbout - IV SELF-REGULATION IMPAIRED: REGIONALISM AND NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS - Europe and the Crisis: The Regionalist Scenario Revisited; B.Hettne - Social Movements, the State and Transformation; A.G.Frank & M.Fuentes - V SOCIALISM IN TRANSITION: REBIRTH OF THE LIBERAL CREED? - The 'Small Transformation': The Historical Process of Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe; K.Miszei - The Polish Postscript, 1989; T.Kowalik - Tibor Liska's Entrepreneurial Socialism; M.D.Nuti - Karl Polanyi and the Theory of a Socialist Mixed Economy; I.Szelenyi - VI EPILOGUE - Democratic Socialist Values in Karl Polanyi's Thought; G.Litvan - Index