"Karl Polanyi is one of the most influential social scientists of our era. A report of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) begins by noting that we are in a "Polanyi era": a time of dangerously unregulated markets, where the greatest need for decisive political action...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- I: Red Vienna -- 1: On Freedom -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Notes -- 2: New Reflections Concerning our Theory and Practice -- Notes -- 3: The Functionalist Theory of Society and the...

Federico Caffè shows an unremitting interest in institutional economics. This article traces the source of this attitude to his affinity with ‘mainstream’ institutionalists. Like them, Caffè is aware of the historical-institutional nature and the open-system character of the economic...