Polanyi's magnum opus ? Assessing the application of the counter-movement in international political economy

International History Review

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 905-920

  Worth, Owen ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

counter movement; International Political Economy; Polanyi

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887025930     PISSN: 07075332     EISSN: 19496540     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07075332.2013.817464     Document Type: Review

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32. Birchfied and Freyberg go a lot further than many here in identifying the deep-rooted problems with relating concerns that were specific to the nineteenth century with those of the present by identifying how the examples used by Polanyi do contrast in both character and form with campaigns such as ATTAC.
33. As the World Social Forum's maxim suggests 'Another World is Possible'.
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53. This would sustain a minimum catchment for those who were suffering from low wage scales, brought on by increased competition.
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63. That is not to say that reactionary movements are not discussed in such accounts, especially those that are not considered as being within the areas of IPE, but that often the full implications of such movements are often ignored in favour of the favoured inclusive movements.
64. For a good overview of cited counter-movements, both as 'progressive counter-movements' and their 'degenerate half brothers';
65. see the section in Dale, Karl Polanyi: 215-20.
66. For a good overview of cited counter-movements, both as 'progressive counter-movements' and their 'degenerate half brothers.
67. The six points of the Charter were: (1) Universal Male Suffrage (achieved gradually through the Reforms Acts of 1867, 1884, and 1918);
68. Secret Ballot Act (1872);
69. No property qualification for MPs (1858);
70. Payment of MPs (1911);
71. Equal Constituencies (effectively achieved through the Redistribution of Seats Act, 1885);
72. Annual Elections (Unachieved).
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81. The rise of the popular European far Right for example, only the French Front Nationale (FN) and the British National Party (BNP) explicitly favour economically national protectionism, others electorally successful organisations (such as the Swiss People's Party, the Austrian Freedom Party, Danish People's Party, and others) have often been pro-market, but anti-immigration and the concept of multiculturalism.
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90. Ironically best summed up through the TINA/There Is No Alternative motif that was associated with Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s.
91. The phrase can date back to Herbert Spencer, a classical liberal theorist who coined the term in his first major work, Social Statics, which was written at the height of the British liberal era.
92. For an excellent introduction see M. Watson, Foundations of International Political Economy (London, 2005), 154-9.
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