Holmes Polanyi in times of populism

Vision and contradiction in the history of economic ideas
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-315-39697-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten

Reihe: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy

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 integration required to sustain it, have been decisively upset by political forces that, whilst once on the fringes, now dominate economic debate. How might we make sense of this ideological breakdown and what might we hope for next?

This book turns to the work of Karl Polanyi for answers, developing the expansive, historicised approach to political economy that Polanyi pioneered. Holmes provides a wide-ranging history of economic ideas read in terms of a series of hopeful theoretical visions of order, in which political, social and ecological contradictions could be transcended in one way or another. Through this, the book demonstrates that the failing utopian visions of pre-2008 economic orthodoxy, which have formed the backdrop to the rise of populism today, are only the latest in a series that stretches across economic thought in Western modernity as a whole.

This book will interest students and scholars of IPE, political science, sociology, anthropology, law and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holmes, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.