Capitalism in Transformation

Edited by Roland Atzmüller, Brigitte Aulenbacher, Ulrich Brand, Fabienne Décieux, Karin Fischer and Birgit Sauer

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Abstract: Presenting a profound and far-reaching analysis of economic, ecological, social, cultural and political developments of contemporary capitalism, this book draws on the work of Karl Polanyi, and re-reads it for our times. The renowned authors offer key insights to current changes in the relations between the economy, politics and society, and their ecological and social effects.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Social Policy and Sociology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
ISBN: 9781788974233
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Polanyian perspectives on the movements and countermovements of our time: an introduction , pp 1-20

Roland Atzmüller, Brigitte Aulenbacher, Ulrich Brand, Fabienne Décieux, Karin Fischer and Birgit Sauer

Ch 2 A life-long search for freedom. From Budapest to America and back: a journey through Karl Polanyis life , pp 22-34

Kari Polanyi-Levitt, interviewed by Michael Brie and Claus Thomasberger

Ch 3 Plunges into utter destruction and the limits of historical capitalism , pp 35-45

Beverly J. Silver

Ch 4 Crises and transformations: suggestions from Karl Polanyis works , pp 46-59

Michele Cangiani

Ch 5 Karl Polanyi as a theorist of disembedded markets , pp 60-74

Christoph Deutschmann

Ch 6 A Polanyian paradox: money and credit as fictitious commodities, financialization, finance-dominated accumulation, and financial crises , pp 75-90

Bob Jessop

Ch 7 Polanyian perspectives on capitalisms after socialism , pp 92-104

Dorothee Bohle and Béla Greskovits

Ch 8 Economy–society tensions in the Eurozone: the anti-democratic virus revived , pp 105-118

Maria Markantonatou

Ch 9 Political Islam as reactionary countermovement , pp 119-134

AyÅŸe BuÄŸra

Ch 10 Freedoms utter frustration: considerations on neoliberal social-policy reforms and the shift to the far-right through Polanyis theory of fascism , pp 135-151

Roland Atzmüller and Fabienne Décieux

Ch 11 Vlkisch populism: a Polanyian-type movement? , pp 152-168

Karina Becker and Klaus Dörre

Ch 12 Cultural war 2.0? The relevance of gender in the radical populist-nationalist right , pp 169-182

Birgit Sauer

Ch 13 Contested social-ecological transformation: shortcomings of current debates and Polanyian perspectives , pp 184-197

Ulrich Brand, Christoph Görg and Markus Wissen

Ch 14 Polanyi, nature and the international: the missing dimension of imperial ecocide , pp 198-211

Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams

Ch 15 Soy expansion and countermovements in the Global South: a Polanyian perspective , pp 212-227

Karin Fischer and Ernst Langthaler

Ch 16 Navigating between improvement and habitation: countermovements in housing and urban infrastructure in Vienna , pp 228-244

Andreas Novy, Richard Bärnthaler and Basil Stadelmann

Ch 17 The fictitious commodity care and the reciprocity of caring: a Polanyian and neo-institutionalist perspective on the brokering of 24-hour care , pp 245-260

Brigitte Aulenbacher and Michael Leiblfinger

Ch 18 The commodification of informal care: joining and resisting marketization processes , pp 261-273

Bernhard Weicht

Ch 19 Polanyis double movement and the making of the knowledge economy , pp 274-288

Antonino Palumbo and Alan Scott

Ch 20 Polanyi and the digital transformation of labour: on fictitious commodities and real conflicts , pp 289-306

Hans-Jürgen Urban

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