The power of market fundamentalism Karl Polanyi s critique 1st Edition by Fred Block, Margaret R Somers ISBN 0674050711 978-0674050716

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ISBN 10:  0674050711 

ISBN 13: 978-0674050716

Author: Fred Block,  Margaret R. Somers

What is it about free-market ideas that give them tenacious staying power in the face of such manifest failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and the severe financial crises that have stressed Western economies over the past forty years? Fred Block and Margaret Somers extend the work of the great political economist Karl Polanyi to explain why these ideas have revived from disrepute in the wake of the Great Depression and World War II, to become the dominant economic ideology of our time.

Polanyi contends that the free market championed by market liberals never actually existed. While markets are essential to enable individual choice, they cannot be self-regulating because they require ongoing state action. Furthermore, they cannot by themselves provide such necessities of social existence as education, health care, social and personal security, and the right to earn a livelihood. When these public goods are subjected to market principles, social life is threatened and major crises ensue.

Despite these theoretical flaws, market principles are powerfully seductive because they promise to diminish the role of politics in civic and social life. Because politics entails coercion and unsatisfying compromises among groups with deep conflicts, the wish to narrow its scope is understandable. But like Marx’s theory that communism will lead to a “withering away of the State,” the ideology that free markets can replace government is just as utopian and dangerous.

Table of contents: 

1. Karl Polanyi and the Power of Ideas

2. Beyond the Economistic Fallacy

3. Karl Polanyi and the Writing of the Great Transformation

4. Turning the Tables: Polanyi’s Critique of Free Market Utopianism

5. In the Shadow of Speenhamland: Social Policy and the Old Poor Law

6. From Poverty to Perversity: Ideational Embeddedness and Market Fundamentalism over Two Centuries of Welfare Debate

7. The Enduring Strength of Free Market Conservatism in the United States

8. The Reality of Society

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