1st Edition

Questioning the Utopian Springs of Market Economy

Edited By Damien Cahill, Martijn Konings, Adam David Morton Copyright 2021
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

Revisiting the magnetic poles of Karl Polanyi and Friedrich Hayek on the utopian springs of political economy, this book seeks to provide a compass for questioning the market economy of the twenty-first century. For Polanyi, in The Great Transformation , the utopian springs of the dogma of liberalism existed within the extension of the market mechanism to the ‘fictitious commodities’ of land,... Read more

Introduction: Questioning the utopian springs of market economy

Damien Cahill, Martijn Konings and Adam David Morton

1. Polanyi vs Hayek?

Philip Mirowski

2. Polanyi’s two transformations revisited: a ‘bottom up’ perspective

Sandra Halperin

3. ‘Our world was made by nature’: constructions of spontaneous order

Gareth Dale

4. Market/society: mapping conceptions of power, ideology and subjectivity in Polanyi Hayek, Foucault, Lukács

Nicola Short

5. The great trasformismo: Antonio Gramsci and Karl Polanyi on the rise of Fascism

Adam David Morton

6. Polanyi, Hayek and embedded neoliberalism

Damien Cahill

7. Karl Polanyi as a spatial theorist

Philip Roberts

8. Against exceptionalism: the legitimacy of the neoliberal age

Martijn Konings

9. Neoliberalism as a real utopia? Karl Polanyi and the theoretical practice of F.A. Hayek

João Rodrigues

10. Hayek and the Methodenstreit at the LSE

Jeremy Shearmur

11. Reading Polanyi in Erbil: understanding socio-political factors in the development of Iraqi Kurdistan

Robert Smith

Biography

Damien Cahill is Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia. His publications include Neoliberalism (with Martijn Konings, 2017) and The End of Laissez- Faire? On the Durability of Embedded Neoliberalism (2014).

Martijn Konings is Professor of Political Economy and Social Theory at the University of Sydney, Australia. His publications include The Development of American Finance (2011), The Emotional Logic of Capitalism (2015), Neoliberalism (with Damien Cahill, 2017), and Capital and Time: For a New Critique of Neoliberal Reason (2018).

Adam David Morton is Professor of Political Economy at the University of Sydney, Australia. He is the author of Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in the Global Political Economy (2007), Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (2011), which was the recipient of the 2012 Book Prize of the British International Studies Association (BISA) International Political Economy Group (IPEG), and Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (with Andreas Bieler, 2018).