James Ronald Stanfield

The Economic Thought of Karl Polanyi

Lives and Livelihood

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The democratic industrial societies face a deeply-rooted institutional crisis. The accepted ways and means of living lead to frustration and anxiety rather than creativity and joy. The roots of this crisis are political and economic. These societies contain economies that pervert and obstruct the human life process and polities that are subordinate to economic vested interests. Karl Polanyi was a Hungarian emigr¿ho witnessed first hand the cataclysms to which this political economic crisis can lead. He created a powerful social economic theory to analyze this institutional impasse and lay the foundation for social reconstruction. This book re… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-349-18434-7
EAN: 9781349184347
Produktnummer: 33303123
Verlag: Springer-Verlag GmbH
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1986
Seitenangabe: 162 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 16'746 KB
Abbildungen: Bibliographie

Über den Autor

J.R. Stanfield is Professor of Economics at Colorado State University, Fort Collins. He earned his doctorate at the University of Oklahoma after taking earlier degrees at the University of Texas, Arlington. He is active in the Association for Social Economics, the Association for Evolutionary Economics, and the Democratic Socialists of America. He has published widely in professional journals and is the author of The Economic Surplus and Neo-Marxism and Economic Thought and Social Change.