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...

"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...