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  <title><![CDATA[The Great Transformation]]></title>
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  <default-description>In this classic work of economic history and social theory, Karl Polanyi analyzes the economic and social changes brought about by the &quot;great transformation&quot; of the Industrial Revolution. His analysis explains not only the deficiencies of the self-regulating market, but the potentially dire social consequences of untempered market capitalism. New introductory material reveals the renewed importance of Polanyi's seminal analysis in an era of globalization and free trade.</default-description>
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  <original-publication-year type="integer">1971</original-publication-year>
  <original-title>The Great Transformation</original-title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Karl Polanyi]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1977</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Polanyi understood economics more realistically than most economists, and understood that economics does not stand alone, but exists within a larger social institutional context. I know that sounds a bit stiff. But until you get it, you will suspect that economists don’t know something you don’t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41054367">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Jan 04 13:57:33 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Jan 04 14:27:12 -0800 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I wouldn't think of reading this book without a guide.  Because Polanyi is an impossible read -- more difficult than Marx (he doesn't have Marx's love of language or Marx's humor), more difficult than Hegel (he doesn't have Hegel's pointed sense of knowing that his prose is torturing the poor reader...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11653918">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Oct 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Oct 07 15:25:16 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I foolishly took it upon myself to read not only the assigned chapters, but the whole of Polanyi's magnum opus, and for the past few days have been lost in the labyrinth of 19th-century poor laws and monetary policy in the Weimar Republic. But this book was immensely profitable, if I may borrow a ma...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/73781852">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="55342821">
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  <recommended_by><![CDATA[Ivan Illich]]></recommended_by>
  <read_at>Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The transformation. . .: for the motive of subsistence that of gain must be substituted. All transactions are turned into money transactions, and these in turn require that a medium of exchange be introduced into every articulation of life. All incomes must derive from the sale of something or...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55342821">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41032755">
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sat Dec 27 15:26:39 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 13 11:00:05 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[The principle point made by this book is that the attempted transition from a market embedded in society to a society embedded in a self-regulating market resulted in the collapse of 19th century civilisation, in the form of global conflict and economic recession. Polanyi asserts that free markets, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41032755">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41495692">
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      <rating>5</rating>
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  <date_added>Thu Jan 01 10:21:23 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Thu Jan 01 10:26:26 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[A Great Book.  Must Reading! -- Not much to add to the many fine reviews here.  However, I learned a great deal by Polanyi's discussion concerning reciprocity and redistribution.  He only starts his discussion here in the Great Transformation, and furthers these points in his later works which also ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41495692">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52060550">
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    <name><![CDATA[Damien]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Apr 13 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Thu Apr 09 08:22:36 -0700 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Apr 13 09:13:47 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a pretty cool economic, political, and intellectual history of economic liberalism that focuses especially on the 19th century.  Polanyi argues that markets should be understood in terms of society, not as &quot;natural,&quot; and furthermore that 19th century industrial nations are totally ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52060550">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="35341217">
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  <date_added>Tue Oct 14 20:11:56 -0700 2008</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Quote from Thomas Frank:<br/>&quot;Because of what's going on in the economy, this election is basically a referendum on what kind of nation we're going to be and what kind of democracy we're going to be. I'd like to recommend the literature of what's wrong with capitalism — how if you let it jus...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/35341217">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="52819412">
    <user id="782399">
    <name><![CDATA[Carol]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[There is a lot of information about free market patterns in this book. Although it is important in understanding how our markets developed, etc. this book is best reserved for those nights when insomnia strikes. I guarrantee quick, deep sleep within moments of cracking open this one!]]></body>
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    <review id="46849596">
    <user id="219119">
    <name><![CDATA[Gill]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A fascinating narrative of economic history. How free market ideologues (with the idea of the self regulating market) periodically achieve successes which undermine human social relations and are met by the 'double movement'. Great historical document. ]]></body>
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    <review id="52774377">
    <user id="1988507">
    <name><![CDATA[Meru]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Apr 15 09:26:23 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really didn't like this book, mostly because I felt that it was poorly formulated and based on a lot of incomplete examples. Every time Polanyi tried to prove something he'd give 4 examples of random indigenous populations in which the event occurred. All of his examples seemed like exceptions rat...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/52774377">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10700453">
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    <name><![CDATA[Laura]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Wed Dec 19 12:57:29 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[In this absolutely marvelous book--his magnum opus--, Karl Polanyi analyzes free-market ideology in an absolutely brilliant and accessible way.<br/><br/>It is unfair to say that this book is prophetic.  As he was arguing with the founder of modern economics, the author was going on far more than i...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10700453">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41573511">
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    <name><![CDATA[Rishi]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003</read_at>
  <date_added>Fri Jan 02 00:01:43 -0800 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Te underlying philosophy is that if development harms people right now, than don't do it; i.e., the ends don't justify the means, something I agree with very strongly.]]></body>
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    <review id="66991570">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ryan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Thu Apr 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Brilliant.  Make sure you read the introduction especially the one by Stiglitz it helps give you a good forest to look at before you get caught up in a bunch of trees.  ]]></body>
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    <review id="64559144">
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the best critique of the US self-regulated market economy that I've ever read and it was written in 1945!]]></body>
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    <review id="6602018">
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  <read_at>Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Other reviewers have pretty much said it all, but, yeah, the main ideas here are as relevant today as they were 50 years ago. I'm not sure I agree with all his social-democrat, reformist and functionalist conclusions, but Polanyi exposes the &quot;free market&quot; as an impossible Utopia invoked to...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6602018">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="32400031">
    <user id="552121">
    <name><![CDATA[Tommy]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Brookline, MA]]></location>        
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  <recommended_for><![CDATA[free market worshippers and bashers]]></recommended_for>
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  <read_at>Sun Sep 14 00:00:00 -0700 2008</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Sep 08 19:54:38 -0700 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Mon Sep 15 10:23:38 -0700 2008</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Polanyi delivers precise, cutting and thorough criticisms of an unfettered market economy. He uses effective historical examples to explain why barter and markets are not the natural outflows of human interaction and the positive and negative aspects that flow out of varying levels of regulation and...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/32400031">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[The first book I finished this summer. It took me months of wrestling, but it's one of the smartest critiques of economic metrics I've read. If you like Tom Frank's &quot;One Market Under God&quot; or James Scott's &quot;<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20186.Seeing_Like_a_State_How_Certain_Schemes_to_Improve_the_Human_Condition_Have_Failed_The_Institution_for_Social_and_Policy_St_" title="Seeing Like a State  How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St) by James C. Scott">Seeing like a state</a>,&quot; you should read it.<br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/11387907">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Great book. Polanyi describes the origins of the Industrial Revolution and the creation of the modern, market economy. How the economic took precedence over the social, and the creation of &quot;labor&quot; and &quot;land&quot; out of people and nature. I really enjoyed reading it. My only critique ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8345060">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Seminal book on the emergence of modern society out of the Depression and pre-depression eras; includes material on how the practice of working for large corporations or others (&quot;wage slavery&quot;) became acceptable, and the impact this has on economic and social life. <br/><br/>The ideas ar...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3180547">more...</a>]]></body>
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