Reading Karl Polanyi for the twenty-first century market economy as a political project

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reflections on disembeddedness: welfare state and beyond -- Suppressing the double movement to secure the dictatorship of finance / Manfred Bienefeld -- The 1970s 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 -- Commodity fiction in contemporary market economies (1): work today -- Labor re-commodification in the global transformation / Guy Standing -- The right to work, way of social exclusion? : basic income as a guarantee to the right to work / José Luis Rey Pérez -- Commodity fiction in contemporary market economies (2): knowledge today -- Knowledge as a fictitious commodity: insights and limits of a Polanyian perspective / Bob Jessop -- Commodification of science in a neoliberal world / Gürol Irzık -- Intellectual property: commodification and its discontents / Virginia Brown-Keyder -- Patterns of resistance and adaptation -- Polanyi's concept of double movement and politics in the contemporary market society / Ayşe Buğra -- Reforming East Asian labor systems: China, Korea, and Thailand / Frederic C. Deyo and Kaan Ağartan -- 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 José Ricardo Barbosa Gonçalves.