Karl Polanyi and the power of ideas -- Beyond the economistic fallacy: the holistic science of Karl Polanyi -- Karl Polanyi and the writing of the Great transformation -- Turning the tables: Polanyi's critique of free market utopianism -- In the shadow of Speenhamland: social policy and the old...

"After two government bailouts of the American economy in less than twenty years, free market thought is due for serious reappraisal. Free Market: The History of an Idea shows how the idea became so powerful, why it succeeded, and why it has failed so spectacularly. In 1990, the G7 Countries...

"The Political Economy Reader advocates a particular approach to the study of political economy - the "market-institutional" perspective - which emphasizes the ways in which markets are embedded in political and social institutions. This perspective offers a compelling alternative to the...

Als die Ökonomen die Weltbühne betraten. Binyamin Appelbaum legt eine originelle Ideengeschichte und ein unvergessliches Porträt der Wirtschafts-Wissenschaftler vor, die in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts zum weltweiten Aufstieg des Neo-Liberalismus beigetragen haben. Sie waren die Vertreter...