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The Great Transformation

The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time

Karl Polanyi

Explore the economic and social impacts of the Industrial Revolution in The Great Transformation. Karl Polanyi's classic work delves into the deficiencies of self-regulating markets and the dire social consequences of untempered capitalism. With new introductory material, this book is still relevant today in our era of globalization and free trade.
Publish Date
2001-03-28T00:00:00.000Z
2001-03-28T00:00:00.000Z
first published in 1944
Goodreads Rating
4.21
ISBN
8601404780325
Recommendations
1
Recommendations
2017-09-18T00:00:00.000Z
My father recommended this book long ago, - says Nadella of the 1944 classic by a Hungarian-American writer who chronicles the development of England’s market economy and argues that society should drive economic change      source