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Klappentext This volume considers how the work of Polanyi can contribute to our understanding of the relationship between market and society. Zusammenfassung The field of economic anthropology has been greatly influenced by the work of Karl Polanyi. This volume brings together contributions from leading experts in economic anthropology! sociology and political economy to consider how far the Polanyi school can contribute to our understanding of the relationship between market and society. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: learning from Polanyi 1 Chris Hann and Keith Hart; 2. Necessity or contingency: mutuality and market Stephen Gudeman; 3. The great transformation of embeddedness: Karl Polanyi and the new economic sociology Jens Beckert; 4. The critique of the economic point of view: Karl Polanyi and the Durkheimians Philippe Steiner; 5. Towards an alternative economy: reconsidering the market, money and value Jean-Michel Servet; 6. Money in the making of world society Keith Hart; 7. Debt, violence and impersonal markets: Polanyian meditations David Graeber; 8. Whatever happened to householding? Chris Gregory; 9. Contesting The Great Transformation: work in comparative perspective Gerd Spittler; 10. 'Sociological Marxism' in Central India: Polanyi, Gramsci and the case of the unions Jonathan Parry; 11. Composites, fictions and risk: towards an ethnography of price Jane I. Guyer; 12. Illusions of freedom: Polanyi and the third sector Catherine Alexander; 13. Market and economy in environmental conservation in Jamaica James Carrier; 14. Embedded socialism? Land, labour and money in eastern Xinjiang Chris Hann; 15. Afterword: learning from Polanyi 2 Don Robotham.
