The great transformation: the political and economic origins of our time

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International system: Hundred years' peace; Conservative twenties, revolutionary thirties -- Rise and fall of market economy: "Habitation versus improvement"; Societies and economic systems; Evolution of the market pattern; Self-regulating market and the fictitious commodities, labor, land, and money; Speenhamland, 1795; Antecedents and consequences; Pauperism and utopia; Political economy and the discovery of society; Man, nature, and productive organization; Birth of the liberal creed; Birth of the liberal creed (continued), class interest and social change; Market and man; Market and nature; Market and productive organization; Self-regulation impaired; Disruptive strains -- Transformation in progress: Popular government and market economy; History in the gear of social change; Freedom in a complex society.;In this ... work of economic history and social theory, [the author] analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the "great transformation" of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potential dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism.-Back cover.