Reading Karl Polanyi for the twenty-first century Market economy as a political project. - Ebook. - Originally published in: 2007 - Buğra, Ayşe 1951- (Palgrave Macmillan, 2007)
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Introduction - Ayse Bugra * PART I: REFLECTIONS ON DISEMBEDDEDNESS: WELFARE STATE AND BEYOND * Suppressing the Double Movement to Secure the Dictatorship of Finance - Manfred Bienefeld * The 1970's and After: The Political Economy of Inflation and the Crisis of Social Democracy - Pat Devine * The Slight Transformation - Contesting the Legacy of Karl Polanyi - Hannes Lacher * PART II: COMMODITY FICTION IN CONTEMPORARY MARKET ECONOMIES: WORK TODAY * Labor Re-Commodification in the New Transformation - Guy Standing * The Right to Work, Way of Social Exclusion? Basic Income as a Guarantee to the Right to Work - Jose Luis Rey Perez * PART III: COMMODITY FICTION IN CONTEMPORARY MARKET ECONOMIES: KNOWLEDGE TODAY * Knowledge as a Fictitious Commodity: Insights and Limits of a Polanyian Perspective - Bob Jessop * Commodification of Science in a Neoliberal World - Gurol Irzik * Intellectual Property: Commodification and Its Discontents - Virginia Brown-Keyder * PART IV: PATTERNS OF RESISTANCE AND ADAPTATION * Polanyi's Concept of Double Movement And Politics in the Contemporary Market Society - Ayse Bugra * Reforming East Asian Labor Systems: China, Korea, and Thailand - Frederic C. Deyo and Kaan Agartan * The Strong Embrace of Weak Actors: Explaining Social Support for Economic Liberalization Through the Case Study of SMEs in the EU - Kevin Young * Corporate Social Responsibility and Market Society: Credit and Banking Inclusion in Brazil - Maria Alejandra Madi Caporale and Jose Ricardo Barbosa Goncalves
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