Verlagstext:
Part One contains a selection of papers on re-reading The Great Transformation that were presented at the Fifth Karl Polanyi International Conference held in Vienna. Polanyi's seminal critique of the perilous consequences of the subordination of social, cultural and environmental human needs, to the calculus of the market principle has assumed new urgency. Globalization, the privatization of the state, the crisis of democracy, the urgency of development in the third world, lessons of transitions to market economies in Russia and East Europe and alternative approaches to inclusionary citizenship in a world of cultural diversities, are the themes explored by these international scholars. Part Two presents memories and tributes delivered to the Vienna conference on the life and work of Ilona Duczynska, Karl Polanyi's beloved wife, political activist, writer, translator and sovereign revolutionary, to whose help and criticism he dedicated The Great Transformation. In accordance with the title of this volume, the editors have added archival material on the life of the Polanyis in Vienna from 1920 to 1936, including memoirs and letters in translation from German and Hungarian and selections from Ilona's unpublished papers.
/ AUS DEM INHALT: / / / Introduction
The Great Transformation From the 1920s to the 1990s p3
Globalization and Haute Finance - Deja Vu? p12
The Continuing Crisis of Democracy p32
The Case for Control Over Cross-Border Capital Flows p47
Re-reading Polanyi: Towards a Second Great Transformation p60
Conditions for Re-launching Development p73
Literature and The Great Transformation p85
On the Economic Implications of (Mis)understanding Markets in Transition Countries p108
From Planned Economy to Market Economy in the Former East Berlin p116
Survival Strategies in Post-1989 Bulgaria p132
Changing Modes of Economic Integration in Bulgarian History p146
Financial Stabilization and Social Destabilization in Hungary p160
The Privatization of the State: The British Experience p173
Of Social Spaces, Citizenship, and the Nature of Power in the World Economy p192
Individualism, Identities and Inclusionary Citizenship in Western Political
Culture
p213
The Constitution of Work Time p224
Democratizing Capital: Alternatives to Market-led Transition p234
Reciprocity and the Informal Economy in Latin America p246
Ilona Duczynska: Sovereign Revolutionary p255
Ilona Duczynska and Austro-Marxism p265
This Is the Voice of Radio Schutzbund p272
From Girl Revolutionary to Old Dissident p275
From Central Europe, Three Friends Remember p281
The Polanyis Discover a Poet p288
The Early Formation of Karl Polanyi's Ideas p295
I First Met Karl Polanyi in 1920 p302
Letter to a Friend, 1925 p316
Karl Polanyi, Oscar Jaszi, and the Becsi Magyar Ujsag p319
Editorial Meetings of the Oesterreichischer Volkswirt (1928) p325
Vorgartenstrasse 203: Extracts from a Memoir p328