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Isaac, Barry L. 2005. Karl Polanyi. Chapters. Edward Elgar Publishing.

This unique Handbook contains substantial and invaluable summary discussions of work on economic processes and issues, and on the relationship between economic and non-economic areas of life. Furthermore it describes conceptual orientations that are important among economic anthropologists, and presents summaries of key issues in the anthropological study of economic life in different regions of the world. Its scope and accessibility make it useful both to those who are interested in a...

Joerges, Christian, Bo Stråth, and Peter Wagner. 2005. The Economy as a Polity: The Political Constitution of Contemporary Capitalism. Psychology Press.

The debate about so-called economic globalization has reached a new phase. The hegemony of neo-liberal thinking has ended, in the face of both the increased and increasingly effective resistance to the social consequences of neo-liberal market-making - rising inequality and insecurity throughout the world - and the visibly dysfunctional effects of lack of regulation - currency and stock market crashes, among others. Thus, the story about 'the rise and fall of market society', which was first...

McMichael, Phillip. 2005. “Globalization.” Pp. 587–606 in The Handbook of Political Sociology States, Civil Societies, and Globalization. Cambridge University Press.

Philip McMichael casts a critical eye on the process of globalization suggesting that it takes different forms across time and space. He specifies contemporary globalization as a discursive project, geared to institutionalizing corporate markets through multilateral and regional economic agreements driven by powerful states. From this perspective of depicting globalization as an exercise in power, he examines political countermovements to globalization. Global justice movements, he argues,...

Nafissi, Mohammad. 2005. Ancient Athens & Modern Ideology: Value, Theory & Evidence in Historical Sciences : Max Weber, Karl Polanyi & Moses Finley. Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Özel, Hüseyin, and Erdal Yılmaz. 2005. “What Can Marxists Learn From Polanyi?” Boğaziçi University, İstanbul, Turkey.

The starting point of this paper is this comment by Rhoda Halperin on the relationship between Marx and Polanyi. Our objective is, however, to examine how reading of Polanyi could be useful to understand, or supplement, Marx’s own views on both capitalism and the “human condition” in general, rather than vice versa. In this regard, we argue first that those followers of Polanyi who believe that Marx should be treated as a rival of Polanyi, and that Marx’s “historical materialism” and his...

Polanyi Levitt, Kari. 2005. “Karl Polanyi as a Development Economist.” P. 234 in Pioneers of Development Economics: Great Economists on Development. Zed Books.

The history of modern economic thought has been pre-occupied with the question of economic transformation or development. This survey of important contributions to the economics of development includes many economists not normally considered as pioneers in this field. The contributors point to the role of imperialist considerations in the early development of economic thought and the development discourse, and the impact of pressures for social and political reform. The economists and...

PRI Project. 2005. What We Need to Know About the Social Economy A Guide for Policy Research. Government of Canada.

This guide provides background on the social economy, identifies research issues whose examination would support the development of policies and programs, provides suggestions for how this research might be conducted, and points to some useful information sources. KM: Gov't commissioned - New Approaches for Addressing Poverty and Exclusion

Ringmar, Erik. 2005. Surviving Capitalism: How We Learned to Live with the Market and Remained Almost Human. Anthem Press.

Human life cannot be reduced to market transactions and human beings cannot only be treated as economic actors. When the power of the market increases, human beings will always try to protect themselves. Given the differences that exist in social and cultural traditions, these protective responses are likely to differ from one society to the other. This is why, even in a global market, diversity is always likely to persist. This book investigates the question of economic globalization -...

Rosser, J. Barkley, and Marina V. Rosser. 2005. “The Transition between the Old and New Traditional Economies in India.” Comparative Economic Studies (Palgrave) 47 (3): 561–78. DOI: 10.1057/palgrave.ces.8100059.

We extend Karl Polanyi's traditional economy concept to modern economies with advanced technology that are embedded in a traditional socio-cultural framework. This is the New Traditional economy, seen in parts of the Islamic world and with the Hindu nationalist movement in India. However, rural India is also the largest repository of the Old Traditional economy with its Hindu caste and jajmani system of reciprocal labour relations. The changes in India's complexly mixed economy, with its...

Watson, Matthew. 2005. “Social Embeddedness. Within Political Economy: The Work of Karl Polanyi.” in Foundations of International Political Economy. Palgrave.

BOOK ABSTRACT: Despite a burgeoning debate on substantive issues in IPE, little attention has been devoted to its theoretical foundations. In this important new text, Matthew Watson reviews the main current theoretical approaches to IPE and highlights the problems that arise from treating 'states' and 'markets' as separate and contesting units of analysis. Foremost among these problems is the lack of attention given to theorizing the constitution of the individual as both an economic agent...

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