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As far right movements, social disintegration and international
conflict emerge from the decay of the neoliberal order, Karl
Polanyi's warnings against the unbridled domination of markets, is
ever more relevant. The essays in Karl Polanyi for the 21st Century
extend the boundaries of our understanding of Polanyi's life and
work. They will interest Polanyi scholars and all interested in
socialism and our future after neoliberalism. One asks whether,
following Keynes and Hayek, Polanyi's ideas will shape the
twenty-first century. Some clarify, for the meaning of money as a
fictitious commodity. Others resolve difficulties in understanding
the building blocks of Polanyi's thought: fictitious commodities,
the double movement, the United States' exceptional development,
the reality of society, and socialism as freedom in a complex
society. And yes others explore how Polanyi sheds light on income
inequality, world systems theory, comparative political economy. --
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Four years into the unfolding of the most serious crisis since the
1930s, Karl Polanyi's prediction of the fateful consequences of
unleashing the destructive power of unregulated market capitalism
on peoples, nations, and the natural environment has assumed new
urgency and relevance. Polanyi's insistence that 'the
self-regulating market' must be made subordinate to democracy,
otherwise society itself may be put at risk, is as true today as it
was when Polanyi wrote. Written from the unique perspective of his
daughter, From the Great Transformation to the Great
Financialization is an essential contribution to our understanding
of the evolution and contemporary significance of Karl Polanyi's
work, and should be read against the background of the accelerating
accumulation of global finance that created a series of financial
crises in Latin America, Russia, Asia, and, eventually, the
heartlands of capitalism itself.
This important book provides a fascinating insight into the
conceptual underpinnings of the theory of plantation economy,
initiated by Lloyd Best and Kari Levitt in the 1960s, as a basis
for analysing the nature of the Caribbean economy. While
acknowledging an intellectual debt to Latin American structuralists
Raul Prebisch, Celso Furtado and Osvaldo Sunkel, and also to the
work of Dudley Seers and William Demas, the authors develop an
original and innovative analytical framework as a counter to more
'universalist' models which failed to take account of the Caribbean
reality. Their work identifies the main features of the plantation
economy as a hinterland characterised by subordination and
dependency on the dominant metropole. Distinguishing between
hinterlands of conquest, settlement and exploitation, Best and
Levitt analyse the rules that determine this complex relationship
with the metropole. Their economic theories are presented against a
background of the historical factors that gave rise to the
'structural continuity' of Caribbean economies and which now impede
meaningful structural transformation.
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