1st Edition

Polanyi in times of populism Vision and contradiction in the history of economic ideas

By Christopher Holmes Copyright 2018
188 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

The rise of populism across Europe and the US – first in the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis and then in the shape of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Brexit vote in 2016 – are indicative of a seismic shift in the terrain of economic ideas in public discourse. Settled liberal norms concerning ever-increasing international market expansion, and the political... Read more

Part I - Polanyian perspectives Chapter 1 - Polanyi in times of Brexit and Trump Chapter 2 - Towards a post-Polanyian approach Part II - Contradiction and transcendence Chapter 3 - Property, order and commerce Chapter 4 - Justice, price and power Chapter 5 - Transcendence and the disembedding of economic ideas Part III - Marketised social protection Chapter 6 - Money and finance Chapter 7 - Nature and climate change Chapter 8 - People and welfare provision Part IV – Contradiction without transcendence Chapter 9 – Habitation versus improvement today

Biography

Christopher Holmes is a Lecturer in Political Economy at King’s College, London. He works on various topics including the history of economic ideas, financial and monetary politics and alternatives to GDP in policy-making. He has published in a variety of leading journals including Economy and Society, New Political Economy, Review of International Political Economy and the British Journal of Politics and International Relations.