The power of market fundamentalism : Karl Polanyi's critique /
Fred Block, Margaret R. Somers.
- Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014.
- xii, 296 p. ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-285) and index.
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 poor law -- From poverty to perversity: ideational embeddedness and market fundamentalism over two centuries of welfare debate -- The enduring strength of free market conservatism in the United States -- The reality of society.