Reading Karl Polanyi for the Twenty-First Century

1. Introduction
Ayşe Buğra

Part I. Reflections on Disembeddedness: Welfare State and Beyond

2. Suppressing the Double Movement to Secure the Dictatorship of Finance
Manfred Bienefeld

3. The 1970s and After: The Political Economy of Inflation and the Crisis of Social Democracy
Pat Devine

4. The Slight Transformation: Contesting the Legacy of Karl Polanyi
Hannes Lacher

Part II. Commodity Fiction in Contemporary Market Economies (1): Work Today

5. Labor Recommodification in the Global Transformation
Guy Standing

6. The Right to Work, Way of Social Exclusion? Basic Income as a Guarantee to the Right to Work
José Luis, Rey Pérez

Part III. Commodity Fiction in Contemporary Market Economies (2): Knowledge Today

7. Knowledge as a Fictitious Commodity: Insights and Limits of a Polanyian Perspective
Bob Jessop

8. Commercialization of Science in a Neoliberal World
Gürol Irzık

9. Intellectual Property: Commodification and Its Discontents
Virginia Brown-Keyder

Part IV. Patterns of Resistance and Adaptation

10. Polanyi’s Concept of Double Movement and Politics in the Contemporary Market Society
Ayşe Buğra

11. Reforming East Asian Labor Systems: China, Korea, and Thailand
Frederic C. Deyo, Kaan Ağartan

12. The Strong Embrace of Weak Actors: Explaining Social Support for Economic Liberalization through the Case Study of Small Business Associations in the European Union
Kevin Young

13. Corporate Social Responsibility and Market Society: Credit and Banking Inclusion in Brazil
Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi, José Ricardo Barbosa Gonçalves

14. Conclusion
Ayşe Buğra, Kaan Ağartan

Keywords: Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, Methodology/History of Economic Thought, Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods