Karl Polanyi - A Life on the Left

Karl Polanyi (1886 - 1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy. His penetrating analysis of globalization's disruptions and the Great Depression's underlying causes still serves as an effective counterargument to free market fundamentalism. This biography shows how the major personal and historical events of his life transformed him from a bourgeois radical into a Christian socialist but also informed his ambivalent stance on social democracy, communism, the New Deal, and the shifting intellectual scene of postwar America.

Sommario

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. In the East-West Salon
2. Bearing the Cross of War
3. Triumph and Tragedy of Red Vienna
4. Challenges and Responses
5. The Cataclysm and Its Origins
6. "Injustices and Inhumanities"
7. The Precariousness of Existence
Epilogue: A Lost World of Socialism
Notes
Index

Info autore

Gareth Dale is senior lecturer in politics and international relations at Brunel University, London. His other books include Karl Polanyi: The Limits of the Market (2010), Karl Polanyi: The Hungarian Writings (2016), and Green Growth: Ideology, Political Economy, and the Alternatives (2016).

Riassunto

Karl Polanyi was one of the twentieth century’s most original interpreters of the market economy. His writing still serves as an effective counterargument to free market fundamentalism. Gareth Dale shows how the major personal and historical events of Polanyi’s life transformed him from a bourgeois radical into a Christian socialist.

Relazione

Gareth Dale's new biography offers us a bracing reminder of a far richer world of socialist activity that once existed in much of the West. Nikil Saval, The Nation

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dr. Gareth Dale, Gareth Dale
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.01.2018
• EAN: 9780231176095
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17609-5
• Pagine: 400
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Biografie, autobiografie; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Educators, HISTORY / Europe / Austria & Hungary, Economic theory & philosophy, Political Economy, Biography: historical, political and military, Economic theory and philosophy, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General