"First published in 1962 and based on a series of lectures from 1956, Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom provides the definitive statement of an immensely influential economic philosophy-one in which competitive capitalism serves as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a...

"This is a proposal for a short book (of around 50,000 words) that speaks directly to the state we are in. The populist insurgency on both sides of the Atlantic and in Europe has deep roots in decades of mismanagement of economic and cultural change and as a result there are large groups of...

Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Polanyian perspectives -- Polanyi in times of brexit and trump -- Towards a post-polanyian approach -- Contradiction and transcendence -- Property, order and commerce -- Justice, price and power -- Transcendence and the disembedding of economic ideas -- Marketised...