Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Note on the 2001 Edition -- Author's Acknowledgments -- The Hundred Years' Peace -- Conservative Twenties, Revolutionary Thirties -- ''Habitation versus Improvement'' -- Societies and Economic Systems -- Evolution of the Market Pattern -- The...

Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. In the East-West Salon -- 2. Bearing the Cross of War -- 3. Triumph and Tragedy of Red Vienna -- 4. Challenges and Responses -- 5. The Cataclysm and Its Origins -- 6. "Injustices and Inhumanities" -- 7. The Precariousness of Existence --...

Using Karl Polanyi's analysis of the separation of politics and the economy, the book argues that the market economy is not a spontaneous process, but a 'political project' realized through institutional change where labour, land, money, and currently knowledge are commodities. The contributions...

Introduction -- 1. Reconstructing Sociology -- 2. The Marxist Orbit: Polanyi's Double Movement -- 3. Capital versus the Demos -- 4. Democratic Tyranny: The Soviet Union -- 5. Reconstructing 'The Great Transformation' -- 6. Regionalism and the European Union -- 7. Intellectuals and the Red Scare...