The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi (150 results)

Condition: Good. Stains on outside cover/inside the book. Cover/Case has some rubbing and edgewear. Access codes, CDs, slipcovers and other accessories may not be included.

Condition: good. Fast Shipping - Good and clean conditions used book. Pages and cover are intact. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: Used - Very Good. 2001. 1st Edition. Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No markings. Introduction by R.M. MacIver.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

PAPERBACK, original price $1.45, glued binding CRACKED at page 173, adequately reglued, otherwise good copy. previous owner's name: David Fischer, Brandeis. POLANYI, KARL. The great transformation. Foreword by R. M. MacIver. Boston: Beacon Press, 1960, second printing, February 1960, xii, 315pp., . Beacon BP45. Originally published: New York: Rinehart, 1944. - First edition of the often reprinted paperback edition was 1957; this is the second paperback printing February 1960.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Edge wear. Tanning along fore edges. Rubbing and fading to covers. Spine creases. Spine is slightly cocked. Browning throughout. Former owner's name on Title Page.

xli + 317p., 5.5x8.5 inches, trade paperback, very good condition. Foreward by Joseph E. Stiglitz, with a new introduction by Fred Block.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.76.

Condition: Fair. Acceptable condition. No Dust Jacket (economics, history, economic history ) A readable, intact copy that may have noticeable tears and wear to the spine. All pages of text are present, but they may include extensive notes and highlighting or be heavily stained. Includes reading copy only books.

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Softcover. Condition: Gut. 360 p. Good. Cover shows mild wear. Isolated penciled underlinings. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 540.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

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Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Cover yellowed and faded. Pencil marks on top right corner of front page. Pages and page edges yellowed but free of marks and folds.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Fourth printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Minor wear to covers and spine. Clean and unmarked pages. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.01.

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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Hardcover without dust jacket in very good condition for its age. Boards are slightly marked, and spine ends are a little bumped. Page block is lightly tanned. Previous owner's name penned to FEP, with a few light spots of foxing noted. Binding is sound and pages are clear. LW. Used.

First edition, early printing of Polanyi's landmark work, which many consider to be one of the twentieth centuryâs most incisive and prophetic works of scholarship. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, "To Peter and Doris With Love Karl." The recipients, Peter Drucker and his wife Doris were close friends and colleagues of Polyani. Born in Budapest, Polanyi moved to Vienna, where he met Drucker while he worked as senior editor of The Austrian Economist. In July 1940, the President of Bennington College, Robert Leigh, wrote to the publisher W.W. Norton, asking him to forward the names of refugee scholars who had been forced to leave Europe as result of the war, and who might benefit from spending a year at Bennington as âhonorary fellows of the college.â Later that week, Drucker, himself a refugee, contacted Leigh with a request to bring Polanyi from Vienna to the college. âDrucker devoted an entire passage of his memoirs, Adventures of a Bystander, to the Polanyi family. Elsewhere, he noted that âperhaps I learned the most from Polanyi, although not formally because we were friends.â Among other things, Drucker described in Polanyi a talent for the practice of social ecology: âHe analyzed, with an uncanny knack for seeing the importance of inconspicuous developments-at an early stage.â (Druckerâs Lost Art of Management, by Joseph A. Maciariello and Karen E. Linkletter). Both Polanyi and Drucker acknowledged each other in their major wartime works, and continued to exchange letters until Polanyiâs death in 1964. Drucker even had a hand in preparing The Great Transformation for publication after Polanyi returned to England, leaving behind an unfinished manuscript. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing, small name to the front free endpaper. An exceptional association. This is the first signed example we have seen. One of the great works of twentieth century economics and surely one of greatest critiques of market liberalism. As an à migrà fleeing Nazism, Polanyi witnessed a world falling apart as global depression, fascist regimes, and resurgent racism metastasized into worldwide terror. Finding intellectual sanctuary at Bennington College, Polanyi worked out a bold diagnosis of what had gone wrong in The Great Transformation, and of how modern society might be rebuilt upon a more equitable foundation. A study of the origins of the Industrial Revolution and the enormity of its economic consequences, ".it argues a triple thesis: (i) that in Great Britain and Western Europe, the coming of machine technology to mercantilistic national economies that contained governmentally regulated markets induced enormous growth in all input and output markets and the removal of governmental controls from some of them; (ii) that nationally integrated market systems in which labour, land, and money as well as produced goods were transacted as market commodities were historically unique; (iii) although machine technology producing within a market system was enormously productive its destructive consequences culminating in the Great Depression of the 1930s, forced governments from the early 19th century onwards to initiate market controls, monetary and fiscal policy to mitigate its destructive consequences, what we now call 'managed' and 'welfare state capitalism'" (New Palgrave). Polanyi's approach to understanding the relationship between politics and the economy has proven influential in the development of numerous fields of study, including economic history, economic sociology, economic anthropology, and historical sociology.

Condition: Fine. Number of pages: 427. 20p Size: 22cm Number of books: 1.

First Edition. First edition. (First printing with publisher's colophon on copyright page.) xiv, 305 pp. Publisher's tan cloth with red spine lettering. A Good+ copy with slightly stained and toned cloth, lacking dust jacket. An influential study of the market economy in England with profound sociological, economic, anthropological, and political implications.

First edition. First edition. (First printing with publisher's colophon on copyright page.) xiv, 305 pp. Bound in publisher's tan cloth with red spine lettering. Near Fine with former owner's name written on front free endpaper, light wear, in Very Good dust jacket, chipped along top edge (especially at head), unclipped ($3.00), spine dulled.An influential study of the market economy in England with profound sociological, economic, anthropological, and political implications. Rare in the first edition.

Condition: Fine. Number of books: 1.