The great transformation and progressive possibilities: the political limits of Polanyi's Marxian history of economic ideas

Economy and Society

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 603-625

  Watson, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adam Smith; always embedded economy; Karl Polanyi; market coordination; sympathy; The great transformation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84916197050     PISSN: 03085147     EISSN: 14695766     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2014.895540     Document Type: Article

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