The Power of Market Fundamentalism - Karl Polanyis Critique

What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and financial crises? The Power of Market Fundamentalism extends economist Karl Polanyi's work to explain why these dangerous utopian ideas have become the dominant economic ideology of our time.

About the author

Fred Block is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis.Margaret R. Somers is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Michigan.

Summary

What is it about free-market ideas that gives them staying power in the face of such failures as persistent unemployment, widening inequality, and financial crises? The Power of Market Fundamentalism extends economist Karl Polanyi's work to explain why these dangerous utopian ideas have become the dominant economic ideology of our time.

Product details

• Authors: Fred Block, Fred (University of California at Davis) Block, Fred (University of California At Davis) So Block, Fred Somers Block, Fred/ Somers Block, Margaret R (University of Michigan) Somers, Margaret R. Somers, Somers Margaret R.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780674970885
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97088-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Economic history, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, Economic systems and structures, Economic systems & structures, Central / national / federal government policies, Central government policies, Economic theory and philosophy