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Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century

Market Economy as a Political Project

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  • © 2007

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  1. Ayşe Buğra

    1. Istanbul, Turkey

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  2. Kaan Ağartan

    1. Binghamton, USA

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Ayşe Buğra
      Pages 1-10

  3. Reflections on Disembeddedness: Welfare State and Beyond

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Suppressing the Double Movement to Secure the Dictatorship of Finance

      • Manfred Bienefeld
      Pages 13-31

    3. The 1970s and After: The Political Economy of Inflation and the Crisis of Social Democracy

      • Pat Devine
      Pages 33-47

    4. The Slight Transformation: Contesting the Legacy of Karl Polanyi

      • Hannes Lacher
      Pages 49-64

  4. Commodity Fiction in Contemporary Market Economies (1): Work Today

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 65-65
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    2. Labor Recommodification in the Global Transformation

      • Guy Standing
      Pages 67-93

    3. The Right to Work, Way of Social Exclusion? Basic Income as a Guarantee to the Right to Work

      • José Luis, Rey Pérez
      Pages 95-111

  5. Commodity Fiction in Contemporary Market Economies (2): Knowledge Today

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Knowledge as a Fictitious Commodity: Insights and Limits of a Polanyian Perspective

      • Bob Jessop
      Pages 115-133

    3. Commercialization of Science in a Neoliberal World

      • Gürol Irzık
      Pages 135-153

    4. Intellectual Property: Commodification and Its Discontents

      • Virginia Brown-Keyder
      Pages 155-170

  6. Patterns of Resistance and Adaptation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Polanyi’s Concept of Double Movement and Politics in the Contemporary Market Society

      • Ayşe Buğra
      Pages 173-189

    3. Reforming East Asian Labor Systems: China, Korea, and Thailand

      • Frederic C. Deyo, Kaan Ağartan
      Pages 191-218

    4. The Strong Embrace of Weak Actors: Explaining Social Support for Economic Liberalization through the Case Study of Small Business Associations in the European Union

      • Kevin Young
      Pages 219-233

    5. Corporate Social Responsibility and Market Society: Credit and Banking Inclusion in Brazil

      • Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, José Ricardo Barbosa Gonçalves
      Pages 235-253

    6. Conclusion

      • Ayşe Buğra, Kaan Ağartan
      Pages 255-259

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 261-267
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About this book

Using Karl Polanyi's analysis of the separation of politics and the economy, the book argues that the market economy is not a spontaneous process, but a 'political project' realized through institutional change where labour, land, money, and currently knowledge are commodities. The contributions explore the impact of this commodification process.

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"Fruitfully peering into the 'knowledge economy,' intellectual property rights, and the scientific revolution, Bugra and Agartan's book refines Karl Polanyi's framework. The authors venture into issues beyond Polanyi's compass. This critical engagement with his analysis of 'free markets' and moral well-being yields fresh insights into transformative forces today."

- James H. Mittelman, University Professor of International Affairs, American University

Authors and Affiliations

  • Istanbul, Turkey

    Ayşe Buğra

  • Binghamton, USA

    Kaan Ağartan

About the authors

AYSE BUGRA completed her Ph.D. in economics at McGill University, UK. She is currently a professor at Ataturk Institute of Modern Turkish History and the founding director of the research center 'Social Policy Forum' at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. Her fields of specialization are History and Methodology of Economics, Development Economics, and Comparative Social Policy. Her publications include On Economics and Human Behavior (in Turkish, 1989, 1994, 2001, 2003, 2005), State and Business in Modern Turkey: A Comparative Study (1994), State, Market and Organizational Form (co-edited with Behlül Üsdiken, Walter de Gruyter, 1997), and Islam in Economic Organizations (1999). She has published articles in different edited collections and in such journals as South Atlantic Quarterly, Economics and Philosophy, International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Technological Change and Social Forecasting, Current Anthropology, Review of Radical Political Economy, MAUSS. She translated The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi into Turkish (1986, 2000, 2003, 2005).

KAAN AGARTAN is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, USA, and currently a research fellow at the research center 'Social Policy Forum' at Bogazici University, Istanbul.

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