The Great Transformation

by Karl Polanyi

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Info:	Beacon Press (2001), Edition: 2, Paperback, 317 pages
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social changes are dynamics like waves. a cold conservative wash will inevitably prelude a smaller warm liberal wash. is this like convergence to the mean? depth to this book. (

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One of the twentieth century's most thorough and discerning historians, Karl Polanyi sheds "new illumination on . . . the social implications of a particular economic system, the market economy that grew into full stature in the nineteenth century." -R. M. MacIver

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